Round Hole Quotes

#1. I was always an odd girl; I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a square peg in a round hole in the music industry and created a lot of neurosis for myself.

Alison Moyet

#2. But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.

Cressida Cowell

#3. Cylindrical peg into the round hole. It's not that hard. Actually, yes it was that hard, which is why I didn't want it deflating before he figured out what to do with it.

Zathyn Priest

#4. That's me. I can be me a bit at home, but I'm kind of like a square peg in a round hole.

Mick Ralphs

#5. There was alienation in the standing consciousness that his squareness would not fit the round hole that had been prepared for him.

Thomas Hardy

#6. If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.

George Eliot

#7. You think you're in control, and you're trying to get that square peg in that round hole. You're frustrated, and you realize that you're not in control of everything. You need to just step back and let God.

Cheryl Ladd

#8. Payment processing: As seen, you now can fit a Square peg through a round hole and be a merchant. Education

Scott Stratten

#9. Certain social situations make me feel like a square peg in a round hole. Realising you can connect to the human race through song makes me feel less alien.

Lindi Ortega

#10. I can change, whittle my square edges to fit in a round hole. God, I hope I'm never going to massacre myself that way.

Sylvia Plath

#11. He's not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He's the sort of guy who wouldn't mind reading side by side on a date.

Jodi Picoult

#12. I'm helpless in post-round, hole-by-hole interviews. I can't take you through most of the holes of winning the Players Championship, the U.S. Amateur or Ryder Cup matches. It's like golf amnesia.

Matt Kuchar

#13. Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg.

Paul Collins

#14. A misfit is like the round peg that cannot fit into the square hole or the running river that just can't stay still.

Pearl Zhu

#15. So, I soberly laid my last plan
To extinguish the man.
Round his creep-hole, with never a break
Ran my fires for his sake;
Over-head, did my thunder combine
With my under-ground mine:
Till I looked from my labour content
To enjoy the event.

Robert Browning

#16. When you come off that last hole and you've just finished a good round of golf, life is good. When you come off that last hole and you messed it up through four or five holes and just played a lousy round of golf, it's just not a very good day. It just isn't.

Tom Watson

#17. 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

#18. This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it.

Paul Giamatti

#19. For every round peg society forces into a square hole, another brick is laid, building the walls that will eventually close us off from the possibility of living with purpose and passion.

Kathryn Perez

#20. 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

#21. A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Mark Twain

#22. You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

Elbert Hubbard

#23. Over the years most of my peers had come to hate me - I never understood why. I guess I was just different and, like dogs, they could smell it. So I never had many friends.

Sol Luckman

#24. One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again.

Alexander Rodchenko

#25. He remembered that, after digging for a little, the water oozes round your finger-tips; the hole then becomes a moat; a well; a spring; a secret channel to the sea.

Virginia Woolf

#26. A gun is a terrible thing. It's a dark hole pointed at you, and that hole swallows up everything else in the world, your friends, your nerve, until there's nothing but you and what's waiting in that little round space of dark.

Sarah Zettel

#27. Then the cow asked:
"What is a mirror?"
"It is a hole in the wall," said the cat. "You look in it, and there you see the picture, and it is so dainty and charming and ethereal and inspiring in its unimaginable beauty that your head turns round and round, and you almost swoon with ecstasy.

Mark Twain

#28. You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole.

Ray Liotta

#29. A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.

Mark Twain

#30. I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.

Jack Nicklaus

#31. Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know.

Charles Kuralt

#32. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

Aldous Huxley

#33. If you're a friend or a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush, Prez 41, or George W. Bush, Prez 43, or any other Bushes, then you know an 18-hole round of golf shouldn't take more than three hours out of your day - there are other important things to do.

Dan Jenkins