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Quotes About Holes

Referencing 2 Corinthians 4:6, Robert Hewitt compares jars of clay in the first century to the same value we would put on a cardboard box. Joni Eareckson Tada queries whether we would question God's right to leave some holes in the box in order to give glimpses of the treasure inside
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no cool people.
~ Tyra Banks
At least, he thought, looking down at his feet, his socks were still in decent shape. It was the socks that went first. A whore he knew said that she only took customers whose socks were in good condition. One of Casson's fellow lodgers showed him how he used a pen to color in the skin that showed white in the holes.
~ Alan Furst
back to the hollow in the middle of the field. As he waited, Hazel realized more fully than ever how dangerous was their position, without holes, wandering in country they did not know.
~ Richard Adams
Sus rostros eran absolutamente similares en un detalle: parecían extremadamente incompletos, como cuadros con agujeros por ojos o como un rompecabezas al que le faltase una pieza nimia. Y eso que echaba en falta, pensó Richards, era el aire de desesperación. En sus estómagos no aullaban los lobos. Sus mentes no estaban llenas de sueños viciados, de esperanzas insensatas.
~ Richard Bachman
There was a stove pipe on top of the box, but there were no bullet holes in the pipe. I was amazed. Almost all the camp stoves we had seen in Idaho had been full of bullet holes. I guess it's only reasonable that people, when they get the chance, would want to shoot some old stove sitting in the woods." Excerpt From Trout Fishing in America
~ Richard Brautigan
The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.
~ Alain de Botton
What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.
~ Amy Alcott
If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?
~ Steven Wright
There are 2, 500 kinds of sponges, all of them consist largely of holes.
~ Will Cuppy
I'm not sure how people drink out of skulls, " Jinx added. Calvin had too many holes in him to make a good cup.
~ Sage Blackwood, Jinx
Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.
~ Eoin Colfer
The things you didn't receive added value to your life, the same as did the things you received. Life had holes. Life was still beautiful.
~ Becky Wade, True to You
I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things.
~ Jonathan Shapiro
You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though.
~ Terry Pratchett
Plot is to literature what individual holes are to miniature golf.
~ Stanley Elkin
Scorpions like holes. We had to put our arms in the holes to dig out the smelting residues. We always performed critter checks before an excavation, but one morning, I put an arm in and felt a sharp pierce. When I brought my hand out, it was red and already swelling.
~ Sarah Parcak
an impulse to reach for my gun. If I thought at all I suppose I was thinking that if a man in a taxicab wanted to make holes in Perrit and the face it was nothing to me.
~ Rex Stout
But as things got thinner, more full of holes, our hearts got thinner, too, diluted somehow. I suppose that kept things in balance. And even when that balance begins to collapse, something remains. Which is why you shouldn't worry.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
If it goes on like this and we can't compensate for the things that get lost, the island will soon be nothing but absences and holes, and when it's completely hollowed out, we'll all disappear without a trace. Don't you ever feel that way?
~ Y?ko Ogawa
But as things got thinner, more full of holes, our hearts got thinner, too, diluted somehow. I suppose that kept things in balance.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
an envious eye turned toward all those face holes stuffed with sun-colored cake.
~ David Sosnowski
No one wants to stumble into gates on moonless nights to trip in holes dug by dogs, but Maria finds more beauty than danger in night.
~ Jeannine Atkins
I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100%; we've always found a hole.
~ Kevin Mitnick