Doughnut Hole Quotes

#1. Whether you take a doughnut hole as blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit. Sitting

Haruki Murakami

#2. Kind, reasonable, thoughtful. It wasn't 'love' or an admission of wild, passionate feelings, but he realized he liked her three words more. 'Love' would have been easy, another easy lie in a long line of lies. 'Love' would be easy to dismiss.

Amy Tintera

#3. Progressing at a snail's pace is still progress, and slow progress is better than no progress. Never be stagnant, and never give up.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#4. Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects a distorted vision of life. The root of the martial arts is not there.

Taisen Deshimaru

#5. I am an unlikely guardian. A month ago I thought the Medicare doughnut hole was a breakfast special for seniors. I am a care inflictor.

George Hodgman

#6. Nobody in college races home and says, 'I can't wait to see the news! I can't wait to see who CBS is going to hire!'

Lewis Black

#7. As you ramble on through life, Brother,
Whatever be your goal,
Keep your eye upon the doughnut,
And not upon the hole.

Margaret Atwood

#8. The way I've always governed my life as far as fiscal policy goes is I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb about it, so I surround myself with smart people in much the same way a hole surrounds itself with a doughnut. I just pay things off. That's all I do.

Dennis Miller

#9. Whether you take a doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut in the slightest bit.

Haruki Murakami

#10. You're your best friend and worst enemy.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Rich people believe "You can have your cake and eat it too." Middle-class people believe "Cake is too rich, so I'll only have a little piece." Poor people don't believe they deserve cake, so they order a doughnut, focus on the hole, and wonder why they have "nothing."

T. Harv Eker

#12. I look upon fine phrases as a lover. - John Keats

Beatrice K. Otto

#13. A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?

Margaret Atwood

#14. Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

Oscar Wilde

#15. An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

George Jean Nathan

#16. Don't look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.

Branch Rickey

#17. Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.

Harold Feinstein

#18. Keep your eye on the doughnut, not on the hole.

David Lynch

#19. Discretion, like the hole in a doughnut, does not exist except as an area left open by a surrounding belt of restriction. It is therefore a relative concept. It always makes sense to ask, "Discretion under which standards?" or "Discretion as to which authority?

Ronald Dworkin

#20. The brightening he detected in the room around him might just be the whites of dozens of eyes as they widened [upon him]

Julie Anne Long

#21. Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.

Haruki Murakami

#22. How you mean, 'doughnut hole'?" Ti-Jeanne had asked. "That's what they call it when an inner city collapses and people run to the suburbs," he'd answered.

Nalo Hopkinson