Holes Louis Sachar Character Quotes & Sayings

One of my favorite things is when I get letters and video messages from fans or people who have attended one of my workshops that say things like "because of your workshop, I finally have the confidence to go after my dream/love myself/have the strength not to listen to anyone telling me I can't do the things I really want to do!" — Rachele Brooke Smith

Going where no man has gone before is more difficult than it sounds. Our cousins and ancestors were no less curious than we are, and were perhaps bolder. This world is their tomb.
You should look under the bed. — N.D. Wilson

It's Nerd World," Peabody said. "Or Geek Galaxy. I can't decide which because it's full of nerds and geeks." "It's Nerd World in the Geek Galaxy. — J.D. Robb

Rhythm is everything in boxing ... — Sugar Ray Robinson

Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all! — Ivan Turgenev

I think that skateboarding can absolutely help make peace ... I know skateboarding can bring people together. You can travel anywhere and if someone's skateboarding, they like you regardless of where you're from or what you do. You skateboard and that's it. — Jamie Thomas

Uncertainty, aridity, peace-all things will resolve themselves into these and pass away. — Franz Kafka

One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews. — Eddie Trunk

For heroes do not make history - that is the historian's job - but, passive, let themselves be borne along, swept up to the crest of the tide of change, of chance, of war. — Ursula K. Le Guin

All real and wholesome enjoyments possible to people have been just as possible to them since first they were made of the earth as they are now; and they are possible to them chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over plowshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope: these are the things that make people happy. — John Ruskin

Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind? — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It's like a bomb site within a minute. So I suppose that means I'm trying to nest. — Carey Mulligan

....and on occasion I like to write in pencil, because I need to know that I can erase the words, even if I never do. — Bruce Black

I think apparatus burned out all over the ward trying to adjust to her come busting in like she did-took electronic readings on her and calculated they weren't built to handle something like this on the ward, and just burned out, like machines committing suicide. — Ken Kesey

I'm totally active. I am just this side of hyper. I jog and go to the gym every day. When I'm on the computer, I'm reading, I'm writing, I'm never quiet. My brain is very rarely not engaged. Every now and again I will fall asleep under the parasol in the sun, but that's a rarity. — Suzi Quatro