Top 22 Quotes About Holes In The Wall
#1. Terenty comes to them, makes the sign of the cross over them, and puts bread under their heads. And no one sees his love. It is seen only by the moon which floats in the sky and peeps caressingly through the holes in the wall of the deserted barn."
from "A Day in the Country
Anton Chekhov
#2. 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
#3. The mob not only grabs hold of art without being entitled to do so, but it also enters the artist. It takes up residence inside the artist and smashes a few holes in the wall, windows to the outer world: The mob wants to be seen.
Elfriede Jelinek
#4. Stories cannot demolish frontiers, but they can punch holes in our mental walls, and through those holes we can get a glimpse of the other and sometimes even like what we see.
Elif Safak
#5. It doesn't matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don't say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it loud enough and it becomes a wall you can't get through.
Richard Kadrey
#6. Girls barely budding open their legs to make a living, alongside the toothless and rancid of breath; hair thick with lice, they all find customers if the price is right, against the wall or on sheets well-soiled. Their holes cost but a shilling. Skins grow thick and claws sharp.
Emmanuelle De Maupassant
#7. They subordinate the whole to the part. It is no longer life they are celebrating, nor nature, but some crude, fanatical party creed. I am afraid that doing things for their own sake will soon be a luxury for children and perhaps for freaks like you and me.
Dorothy Macardle
#8. Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.
Aeschylus
#9. You're not perfect, and that makes you just exactly right.
J.D. Robb
#10. Cut the sarcasm. It makes you sound like an even bigger asshole
Maya Banks
#11. Don't kill but conquer, the Ravana in you.
Vikrmn
#12. Better to regret unsaid words than repent of words I could never call back. Who
Robin Hobb
#13. The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
Oliver E. Williamson
#14. Everyone's chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes.
Andrea Gibson
#16. A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief, but they run away fr'm doubt.
Finley Peter Dunne
#17. The boy looks into Mugwump eyes blank as obsidian mirrors, pools of black blood, glory holes in a toilet wall closing on the Last Erection.
William S. Burroughs
#18. The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.
Adrienne Rich
#19. Why do people build houses to keep the climate out, then cut holes in the walls to let it in again? I shall never understand.
Kyril Bonfiglioli
#20. I've knitted myself a hat, it's plum red with an appealing lace pattern, I figured that a few air holes would be nice now that it's spring. I put it on and feel like a cranberry in the snow, and I wonder if they can see me from the moon. Me and the Great Wall.
Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold
#21. A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
Douglas Pagels
#22. On the other hand, looking careless could just be privileged give-a-shit Ivy League attitude, like wearing duct tape on loafers and jeans with holes in them, knowing all along that they were headed straight to Wall Street or Washington and three-piece suits.
Karl Marlantes
