Quotes About Hole In The Ground

#1. A crack of lightning beamed from the sky, leaving a hole in the ground. Smoke elevated from it. Within seconds, I was covered in rain, drenched, unsteady, and cold, I half stumbled, half crawled back towards my car.

Elle Klass

#2. I miss her all the time. I know in my head that she has gone. The only difference is that I am getting used to the pain. It's like discovering a great hole in the ground. To begin with, you forget it's there and keep falling in. After a while, it's still there, but you learn to walk round it.

Rachel Joyce

#3. It's [grief] like discovering a great hole in the ground. To begin with, you forget it's there, and you keep falling in. After a while, it's still there, but you learn to walk around it.

Rachel Joyce

#4. My father also told me that he felt free in that little hole in the ground, much freer than he felt outside, where he was always being chased by the criminals of the regime. That freedom came from inside, from his thoughts, from his soul; and nobody could take that from him.

Teodor Flonta

#5. But the surface of the Earth was meant for man. He wasn't meant to live in a hole in the ground.

Edward Bernds

#6. Progress? There's no such thing as progress. There's only change. You dig a hole in the ground, you build up a city, and you fight a war, and you call it progress?

Charles Manson

#7. burro, burrow: A /burro/ is an ass. A /burrow/ is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the difference.

United Press International

#8. I'm worried he's going to ... do something crazy."
"He lives in a hole in the ground, dresses funny and occasionally eats his assistants," Eve said. "Define crazy."
Claire closed her eyes. "Okay. I think he wants to put my brain in a jar and wire it into the machine."
Dead silence.

Rachel Caine

#9. Weapons of mass destruction aren't pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They're produced in factories. There's science and technology involved. They're not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement.

Scott Ritter

#10. Most sportswriters don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.

Charles Barkley

#11. I knew 'Bad Girls' attracts a younger audience, and it's vital to get oneself known to that audience because, unless they watch me in re-runs on 'U.K. Gold,' they won't know me from a hole in the ground.

Kate O'Mara

#12. A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.

Mark Twain

#13. Every infantryman in the Soviet Army carries with him a small spade. When he is given the order to halt he immediately lies flat and starts to dig a hole in the ground beside him.

Viktor Suvorov

#14. You can't turn something into something else," said Corporal Nobbs. "The Alchemists have been trying it for years." "They a can gen'rally turn a house into a hole in the ground," said Sergeant Colon.

Terry Pratchett

#15. I may be sick. I may come from a hole in the ground. My best friend may be an insect. But at least I don't live in decent society.

Jessica Anthony

#16. You don't know your ass from a hole in the ground, you know that?

Barry Webster

#17. When I was a wee lad, Uncle Dickie sat me on his knee, and regaled me with stories about the genesis of a game that involved trying to jam a ball into a hole in the ground with a stick,

David Feherty

#18. You see a lot of jargon junkies in the navy. Usually means they don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. The rallying cry is If you can't dazzle 'em with genius, baffle 'em with bullshit.

James W. Blinn

#19. I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

Serge Lang

#20. Most animals sleep in a hole in the ground or hanging from a tree. Man alone has made for himself an elaborate resting place. And yet he is the only one to have developed the alarm clock to rouse himself from it, the only species to spend sixteen or more hours of each day away from it.

James Rozoff

#21. I will give you to Catherine. I will not give you to a hole in the ground.

Dorothy Dunnett

#22. We don't know our ass from a hole in the ground.

Randy Newman

#23. In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, N.Y. guarding a hole in the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it. God bless the American educational system!

Spider Robinson

#24. One day you have Einstein, puzzling over the theory of relativity, the next you've got the Manhattan Project and a big hole in the ground.

Justin Cronin

#25. He'd been let down so often
His brow was on the floor
But then they found
A small hole in the ground
And let him down some more

David Thewlis

#26. In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#27. If anyone wants a hole in the ground, nuclear explosives can make big holes

Edward Teller

#28. I felt myself shrink to a small black dot against all those red and white rugs and that pine paneling. I felt like a hole in the ground.

Sylvia Plath

#29. I was cold, hungry, and in a hole in the ground. But at least I had my elven porn, damnit!

Kim Harrison

#30. It's all right. You guys in New York City can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later, so let's be fair.

Ray Nagin

#31. He lives in a hole in the ground, dresses funny, and occasionally eats his assistants," Eve said. "Define crazy.

Rachel Caine

#32. You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins."
"I'm going to end up in a hole in the ground ... And so are you. So are we all.

J.M. Coetzee

#33. A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. A reporter should know the difference.

Fred Reed

#34. I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer.

A.A. Milne

#35. [Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.

Warren Buffett

#36. That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

Ed Bradley