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Holes Quotes

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Louis Sachar
“If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs,
"The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies."
While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely,
Crying to the moo-oo-oon,
"If only, If only.”
Louis Sachar, Holes

Louis Sachar
“I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.”
Louis Sachar

Louis Sachar
“I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions.”
louis sachar, Holes

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Louis Sachar
“Well, let me tell you something, Caveman. You are here on account of one person. If it wasn't for that person, you wouldn't be here digging holes in the hot sun. You know who that person is?"
"My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.”
Louis Sachar, Holes
tags: holes

Denis Healey
“Healey’s First Law Of Holes: When in one, stop digging.”
Denis Healey

Jules Verne
“Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted
to know the depth of it. To him this was important.”
Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
tags: holes

Louis Sachar
“Now you be careful in the real world" said Armpit " Not everyone is as nice as us.”
Louis Sachar, Holes

Markus Zusak
“Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.”
Markus Zusak, Getting the Girl

Terry Pratchett
“Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.”
Terry Pratchett, Nation

Rick Riordan
“She wore a big maroon Harvard sweatshirt and jeans that were covered with marker stains and little holes, like she spent her free time poking them with a fork.”
Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse
tags: fork, holes

Katherine Applegate
“A hole can be as real and solid as a boulder or a tree.”
Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“How is digging a hole part of the process of getting out of one? The fact is, the people who can answer that question are so far down some hole that they couldn’t hear the question even if you shouted it.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The oddity of our existence is that we are capable of digging holes deeper than we are capable of getting ourselves out of. The greatness of God is that He has a shovel long enough for every hole ever dug.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“There is no depth that exceeds the reach of the God who is, at this very moment, seeking you out in the holes that you have dug for yourself.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Jarod Kintz
“Yesterday I played a round of golf. I just kept hitting the ball in circles, but never getting it in the circles they call holes.”
Jarod Kintz, The Lewis and Clark of The Ozarks

T. Kingfisher
“You're from Florida. There's got to be more holes to hell in Florida than any other state.”
T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Shovels serve two purposes. One is to dig holes and the other is to fill them. And I must say that my life evidences my expertise with the first, but apparently I can’t figure out the second.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Ana Claudia Antunes
“With many turns and holes
Life is much like a swiss cheese:
Emmental, dear, what's on!”
Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

Louis Sachar
“Then he turned to Zero, who had been quietly digging in his hole since Stanley's return. Zero's hole was smaller than all the others.”
Louis Sachar, Holes
tags: holes

Michael Vito Tosto
“I’m not really an expert on the nature of holes. I just strongly feel that holes are begging to be filled (the penis is aware of this). And I don’t think a hole wants to be a hole. I think a hole wants to be something else.”
Michael Vito Tosto, Elsewhere and Otherwise: Essays

Michael Vito Tosto
“Reality is designed to keep people lost.”
Michael Vito Tosto, Elsewhere and Otherwise: Essays

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“If you have a hole within you, trying filling the hole in someone else. If you do, in the end there will be two less holes.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The landscape of the world is littered with holes dug by men in search of water for their souls. But it is the hole where the shovels were surrendered to God that mark the end of holes and the beginning of water.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The way to quit digging holes is to get rid of the shovels and stay away from the dirt.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Anthony T. Hincks
“Loneliness carves my heart full of holes.”
Anthony T. Hincks

Anthony T. Hincks
“Socks were meant for holes.”
Anthony T. Hincks

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“I might have my holes, but the healing of today means that they will be smaller in every tomorrow, including the one that is now only hours away.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Lydia Millet
“Here was a whole life Beth had missed, a hole where a life should have been. But then, he thought, the universe was made up of holes--was it so terrible to be swept into one? After all. The holes were the black between stars, between constellations. It was holes that were the fabric of the galaxy.”
Lydia Millet, How the Dead Dream

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Filling a hole in a manner that doesn’t address how it was dug is to fill a hole that is certain to remain empty.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

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