Best 229 quotes in «holes quotes» category

People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want to buy a quarter-inch hole!

So all in all there wasn't anything really wrong with my life. Except that, like most everyone else's I knew about, it had a big gaping hole in it, an enormous emptiness, and I didn't know how to fill it or even know what belonged there.

Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

Remember what to do when you're at the bottom of a hole? You've got to stop digging.

Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

(Sookie's Thoughts on Debbie Pelt) she had been cruel to Alcide, insulted me grievously, burned a hole in my favorite wrap and—oh—tried to kill me by proxy. Also, she had stupid hair.

That ship is loaded with treasure, but there's a hole in the ship. And my job is to get everyone to row in the same direction.

That's me. I can be me a bit at home, but I'm kind of like a square peg in a round hole.

Take less time to read the scorecard and more time to read the hole.

Take nine strokes off your score. Skip the last hole.

That's what I realized: if I did get her back somehow, she wouldn't fill the hole that losing her created.

The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.

The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

The Customer isn't always right. Sometimes the customer is an a**hole. That's the first rule of retail.

The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.

The hole and the patch should be commensurate.

The hole calls the thiefe. [The hole calls the thief.]

The hole was playing downwind and I managed to get a good bounce.

The ideal hole is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number, gives the fullest advantage for accurate play, stimulates players to improve their game, and never becomes monotonous.

The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.

The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.

The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?

The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do.

The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

There are more bogeys in the last nine holes of the U.S. Open than in any other tournament in God's creation.

The night is a tunnel ... a hole into tomorrow.

There is, in every event, whether lived or told, always a hole or a gap, often more than one. If we allow ourselves to get caught in it, we find it opening onto a void that, once we have slipped into it, we can never escape.

The score a player reports on any hole should always be regarded as his opening offer.

There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven.

The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

There isn't a hole out there [Augusta] that can't be birdied if you just think. But there isn't one that can't be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.

There was a hole inside her, and it twisted.

This is the very center of everything there is. A huge black hole eating up the galaxy. The end of everything.

The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole thats getting deeper and deeper and deeper.

They build machines they can't control, and bury the waste in a great big hole.

We all have family dysfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole.

We blasted holes in the night until she bled sunshine

What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.

What use are socks? They only produce holes.

When I was at Pixar, I was in my hole. I was an animator, I had my shots and I was like, "Yeah, I've gotta make this perfect!" It's a very selfish thing.

What you learn after you are 40 is that it is just about plugging up holes in the boat. You just hope you have enough corks to plug enough of the holes.

When love ends, the beloved is no longer standing on a pedestal, but in a hole.

We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it.

When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.