Mr. Sir: There’s lizards, hot sun, and rattlesnakes. Stanley: Rattlesnakes? Mr. Sir: If you don’t bother them they won’t bother you and ya won’t get bitten and die. Usually.
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This ain’t no kindergarteners in the sandbox.
Zig-Zag: Say, I didn’t know Marion was a man’s name. Mr. Sir: It ain’t.
Mr. Sir: All life begins with water. So think of it this way; I’m givin’ you life. Say thank you. Stanley: Thank you, Mr. Sir.
Everything turns to callous eventually. That’s life.
Mr. Sir: Stanley Yelnats...the Fourth? Stanley: Everyone in my family names their son Stanley, ‘cause it’s Yelnats backwards. It’s this little...tradition.
You Girl Scouts want to hear a story? Once upon a time there was a magical place where it never rained. The end. [snickers scornfully]
You take a bad boy, make him dig holes all day in the hot sun, it turns him into a good boy. That’s our philosophy here at Camp Green Lake.
Yeah, keep running! There ain’t gonna be no Yelnats the Fifth.
The Warden Walker: [while all the boys are digging out a deep trench, Armpit tries to dupe the Warden into thinking that he has found something which is obviously nothing more than a recently broken TV knob] Are you trying to be funny, or do you just think I’m stupid? Armpit: No, ma’am. I wasn’t try…
The lake goes around for miles. You, and your children, and your children’s children, will dig for a hundred years, and you will never find it. [she picks up a yellow lizard] Start digging, Trout. [She puts the lizard to her arm. It bites her, and she dies, laughing softly]
— Louis Sachar, Katherine "Kissin' Kate" Barlow, Patricia Arquette, Holes
Mr. Sir: There ain’t nothing down there. We woulda found it by now. Mr. Pendanski: I wouldn’t tell the queen bee that. Mr. Sir: I ain’t on stupid pills.
Mr. Sir: What’re we gonna do? The Warden Walker: You’ll do as I say. [puts her hat on and leaves] Mr. Pendanski: What did she say? Mr. Sir: Not much. Mr. Pendanski: What do we do? Mr. Sir: You’ll do as I say. [puts his hat on and leaves] Mr. Pendanski: But you didn’t say anything, either.
Zero: You know, those stars look like a shovel to me. Stanley: Exactly...Hector, I feel lucky. Zero: [laughing] The onions have gone to your head. Stanley: What do you say we dig one more hole?
Stanley: You know what I keep thinkin’ of? Zero: What? Stanley: How fine this Mary Lou must’ve looked like in a bikini.
Sam: Is something wrong? Kissin’ Kate Barlow: Oh, Sam, my heart is breaking. Sam: I can fix that.
— Louis Sachar, Katherine "Kissin' Kate" Barlow, Patricia Arquette, Holes
I’m not stupid, I know everyone thinks I am, I just don’t like answering stupid questions.
Trout Walker: [Trout appears, pointing a rifle at Kate] You got five seconds to tell me where you buried the loot! Kissin’ Kate Barlow: I’ve been waitin’ for you, Trout...[she draws her pistol and aims. Trout hesitates, but then she lowers it] I ain’t gonna kill you. [she throws the gun down, and Tr…
— Louis Sachar, Katherine "Kissin' Kate" Barlow, Patricia Arquette, Holes
Mr. Pendanski: D-I-G. What does that spell? Zero: [takes shovel and whacks Mr. Pendanski across the face with it] DIG.
Zero: What do you think’s up there? Stanley: I don’t know, a great big Frosty-Freeze? Zero: Good, ’cause I could use a hot fudge sundae.