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Why is it when you start to meditate you stop at a certain point? Because you're tied to the world, you have holes in your being and you haven't learned to lead an efficient life.
It's easier to poke holes in an idea than think of ways to fill them. And it's easier to focus on the 100 reasons you shouldn't do something rather than the one reason you should.
I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes.
It's one thing to tell a front man to drop off and fill in the hole behind, but if they don't know why they are doing it, it is not an easy thing to teach. But Rooney's just got it.
Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!
You make the decision: Whom did God punish?
A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want to buy a quarter-inch hole!
When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
I'm a golfer and have had three holes in one.
I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.
The hole calls the thiefe. [The hole calls the thief.]
A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.
I'm a great believer that if you don't get the ball to the hole, it won't go in.
The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?
It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself
Morfran thrust his axe straight up. He pretty much seemed to have one sign for everything: poke a hole in the sky.
I just had to get on the golf course and play holes whether it was practice or tournaments. Just keep playing. There's nothing else you can do.
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though.
At the end of every tournament, to review every stroke and every hole, seeing what I can learn from the experience.
Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to.
Only black holes of very low mass would emit a significant amount of radiation.
My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.
If you dig a hole and it's in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn't going to help.
When you're sharing a mud hole with a wildebeest derriere in sub-Saharan Africa, that's a living hell.
Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit.
My work indicated that if we consider smaller and smaller black holes, at some stage, the properties of black holes become indistinguishable from those of elementary particles.
Anytime you're playing a major, the last four or five holes, it's not going to be easy. It's never a guarantee. It's never easy.
We know about black holes and neutron stars, but we hope there are other phenomena we can see because of the gravitational waves they emit.
Black holes are enigmatic astronomical objects, areas where the gravity is so immense that it has warped spacetime so that not even light can escape.
I read 'Holes' in 10th grade, and I haven't read a full book since. The movie version with Shia LaBeouf was OK, but the book was way better.
It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.
The bark on the tree was just a little softer.
Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's back.
Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.
Take heed of winde that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled Enemy.
There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.
I was more comfortable somehow in a European Tour setting. I have never really felt comfortable in the States and therefore I have never won a 72-hole event there.
The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.
It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there.
There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.
Evidence has been mounting for the key role that black holes play in the process of galaxy formation. But it now appears that they are likely the prima donnas of this space opera.
I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction to Texas.
I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire. [I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heir.]
I don't think too much about the audience when I'm writing... I'm aware that 'Holes' was read by kids as young as 8, up to adults.
I'm no good at describing my books. 'Holes' has been out now for seven years, and I still can't come up with a good answer when asked what that book is about.
With 'Holes' I was troubled that there weren't very many female characters. I tried to put them in where I could. But the setting didn't lend itself to girls.