hole quotes

It is not enough to be pause, to be hole to be void, to be silent to be semicolon, to be semicolony; 150

-Brathwaite
  Islands, no.3 'Rebellion', pt.6 'Negus', collected as The Arrivants:  A New World Trilogy (1973).

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.

- Raymond Chandler
  Farewell, My Lovely, ch.13.

   An ineffectual attempt to direct an uncontrollable sphere into an inaccessible hole with instruments ill- adapted for the purpose.

- Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill
Quoted in Michael Hobbs The Golf Quotations Book (1992).

In this decayed hole among the mountains In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing Over the tumbled graves.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  The Waste Land, pt.5,'What the Thunder Said'.

Newartists must break a hole in the subconscious and go fishing there.

- Robert Beverly Hale
  In Time,11  Apr.

It is not the mouse who is the thief, it is the hole that allows the mouse in.

- Herman Jacobs
  His interpretation of  Talmudic principles applied in business. In Forbes, 21 Nov.

What thing is love for (well I wot) love is a thing. It is a prick, it is a sting, It is a pretty, pretty thing; It is a fire, it is a coal Whose flame creeps in at every hole.

- George Peele
c.1591 The Hunting of Cupid.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing inittositdownonor to eat: it was a hobbit-hole,and that means comfort.

-J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien
  The Hobbit, ch.1.