Holes Quotes - Page 2

• The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.

  George W. Bush

  Powerful, Cells, Iraq

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

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• Even when people are rich and successful on TV shows, there's always some trouble - you have to poke holes in them, throw them out of a job, put a pie in the face.

  Drew Carey

  Jobs, Successful, Tv Shows

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• During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Too Late, Leica

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• The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

  Cyril Connolly

  Art, Fall, Dark

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• Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

  Adam Duritz

  Yelling, Echoes, World

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• A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Strong, Class, Digging

  "Special Coverage for the DNC". "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. August 26, 2008.

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• I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Understanding, Reconciliation

  The New York Times, September 12, 1974.

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• It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!

  Louis Sachar

  Dirty, Pigs, Digging A Hole

  "Holes". Book by Louis Sachar, June 1, 2011.

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• There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

  Louis Sachar

  Lakes, Green, Camps

  Louis Sachar (2007). “There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom: Rejacketed”, p.198, A&C Black

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• The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Cosmos, Literature

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!

  Denis Healey

  Funny, Life, Law

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• By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Home, Play, Hours

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• A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.

  Plautus

  Mice

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• Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

  Georges Duhamel

  Trust, Beautiful, Memories

  Georges Duhamel (1919). “The Heart's Domain”

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• A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole.

  Mac O'Grady

  Golf, Thinking, Different Universes

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• The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels.

  Thomas Friedman

  Digging, Three, Firsts

  "Imbalances of Power" by Thomas Friedman, www.nytimes.com. May 21, 2008.

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• For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he's dug for himself over the last decade. You know, it's like one of those deep diamond mined holes in South Africa, you know, they're about a mile underground. He'd have to come a mile up to get to even equilibrium, let alone have any contest in morality with Kevin Rudd.

  Paul Keating

  Kevin, Lasts, Firsts

  "Keating Criticises Alp Over Compulsory Super Plan". Interview with Eleanor Hall, www.abc.net.au. March 05, 2007.

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• The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

  Louis Sachar

  Tree, Littles, Bark

  Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.8, Yearling

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• You make the decision: Whom did God punish?

  Louis Sachar

  Decision

  Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.115, Yearling

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• When you are in a hole, stop digging!

  Bill McKibben

  Digging A Hole, Climate Change, Complexity

  Twitter post from Sep 23, 2016

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• The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.

  Nancy Lopez

  Sports, Golf, Play

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• I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there's only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.

  Red Grange

  Football, School, Men

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• Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today.

  Arthur Kroker

  Redneck, America, Black

  Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker, David Cook (1989). “Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene”

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• I think the recovery hasn't been stronger because the hole that was dug for President Obama by the Bush administration was far worse than anybody could imagine, first of all.

  Howard Dean

  Recovery, Thinking, Usa

  "Newt Gingrich, Howard Dean Talk Race, Economy and Elections". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. July 25, 2010.

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• The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing.

  Edwin M. Stanton

  Breathing, Bags, Necks

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