Holes Stanley Quotes & Sayings

Why? Why not? Why not you? Why not now? — Reza Aslan

Stanley spent more time pushing the wheelbarrow than digging, because he was such a slow digger. He carted away the excess dirt and dumped it into previously dug holes. He was careful not to dump any of it in the hole where the gold tube was actually found. — Louis Sachar

I don't know that many Australian actors in Los Angeles, but there are a few of us. I mean, we kind of get together occasionally, but I wouldn't say it's an alliance or anything like that. — Xavier Samuel

Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space
Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience,
That neither by hir wordes ne hir face
Biforn the folk, ne eek in her absence,
Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence. — Geoffrey Chaucer

sweetness on the tongue and a promise of scent on the night air. It was sensual in the best meaning of that word, saturating every sense at once, so that the flesh was known, finally, as a thing of such goodness that man blessed his Creator from morning to night for having made him. Here in this medieval town where once an extraordinary little fellow had burst forth with songs to God, as a passionate lover speaks to his bride, here the restoration of man to his own true home was no longer the dream of saints. It was the wedding feast. It was a word made flesh. — Michael D. O'Brien

When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come. — Ben Whishaw

Holes BY LOUIS SACHAR
"Nearly everything in the room was broken; the TV, the pinball machine, the furniture. Even the people looked broken, with their worn out bodies sprawled over the various chairs and sofas." (p.43)
This is Stanley's view of the "wreck room" at Camp Green Lake. It is the one place the boys are allowed to relax somewhat and they have trashed it. The inhumanity of the camp has possessed the boys. Stanley sees this room as a reminder that the boys have the capacity for violence, and he does not want to mess with the other campers. — Louis Sachar

I knew what I took upon myself and I was prepared to lose my life by so doing. — Hans Scholl

One reason people never attempt new things is their fear of failure. — Zig Ziglar

I'm grateful for all the attention because it validates I'm doing something. — Gale Harold

I had no contact with my contemporaries in the photographic field, nor even knowledge of their work. So I was influenced by no-one and there were no short cuts for me. I was self-taught the hard way, by trial and error ... — George Rodger

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that. — Brian Keene

LOUIS SACHAR is the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller Holes, winner of the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Christopher Award. He is also the author of Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake; Small Steps, winner of the Schneider Family Book Award; and The Cardturner, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a Parents' Choice Gold Award recipient, and an ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults book. His books for younger readers include There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, The Boy Who Lost His Face, Dogs Don't Tell Jokes, and the Marvin Redpost series, among many others. — Louis Sachar

Education isn't just about feeding the brain. Art and music feed the heart and soul. — Julie Garwood

Plot is to literature what individual holes are to miniature golf. — Stanley Elkin

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic. — Ron Paul

What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek. — Guillermo Del Toro

All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy. — William, Saroyan

You are one brave woman," he whispers, "I am in awe of you. — E.L. James