Holes Quotes

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.

When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

It was a fine cast and lots of fun to make, but they did the damn thing on the cheap. The backdrops had holes in them, and it was shot on the worst film stock.

I like unkempt; I don't mind if I have holes in my jacket or whatever. I think people should look more the way they feel.

In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.

When you get up there in years, the fairways get longer and the holes get smaller.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.

This case reminds me of one in which I likened the Plaintiff's case to a colander, because it was so full of holes.

The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board.

If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.

I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls.

What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution. And what we need to do is to present those fairly from a scientific point of view. And we should lay out areas in which the evidence supports evolution and the areas in the evidence that does not.

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

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.

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.

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.

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

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.

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.

The most interesting guy I've ever played with was King Hassan of Morocco. I went over there on a trip in the early 1970s, and the King and I played five holes. I've never been that nervous in my life.

It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

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.

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.