Best 123 quotes in «digging quotes» category

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

Whatever it is your doing out there, don't lose hope, you just keep digging and things can work out. I'm proof.

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.

When you consider the sheer magnitude of investable equities to choose from in the world's emerging markets, you realize that finding one that looks attractive enough to warrant investing your faith and assets in is as formidable a task as finding a needle in a haystack. Fortunately, researching investment opportunities is a lot more interesting than digging for needles in haystacks.

Writing isn't hard - no harder than ditch digging.

When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging.

When you're thirsty, it's too late to think about digging a well.

Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.

You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.

You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper

You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.

You know, many people believe that we archaeologists are just a collection of old fogies digging around in the ruins after old dried up skulls and bones.

Everybody dies, but some spend a whole life digging their grave.

Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.

Self-leadership is about digging out your hidden endowment and making them known and useful to those who need it most.

Every time they saw him, they recognized him and knew him and expected things of him. And every time he came up blank. It was like watching someone digging where they knew they'd buried something precious, digging and digging and realizing that whatever it was--was gone. But they kept digging just the same, because the idea of losing it was so terrible and because maybe. Maybe. He was that lost treasure. He was that maybe. And he hated it. That was the secret he was trying to keep from them, the one he was always fearing he would betray.

Tommy asks where Carolyn is. "She's at Cindy's." "They live together now," Salvador added. "Didn’t they just start dating?" Tommy asked. Tiger answered, "Yeah... A couple of WEEKS ago." Unhappy about the news, Tommy objects to Carolyn moving in with Cindy. "That's how it happens in our WORLD," Salvador said. "One night you MEET, the next night you MOVE IN, and before you KNOW IT- you're digging a GRAVE IN THE BACK YARD FOR YOUR LOVER DURING A FREAK THUNDERSTORM." "THAT IS HIGHLY INAPPROPRIATE," Tommy said. After Salvador apologizes, Tommy asks how Raven's doing in prison. "Fucking GREAT." Tiger answered. "How do you THINK?" "No longer on suicide watch?" "NO... FUCK..." "Speaking of fucking. Is he still with BULL DOG?" "I REALLY don’t wanna TALK about RAVEN right now- AND WHO HE'S FUCKING. Talk about INAPPROPRIATE.

Sometimes I dig holes for people to fall in. Then I shout, “I've got you!

The only time you start at the top is when you’re digging a hole.

The gold you have to dig for is not the real gold.

A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place.

All that matters to me as a reader are characters. I want characters to be real, authentic, and rounded. I will be digging into characters for at least a month. Who they are. What they are like. Outside of the story.

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.

As for being on Twitter, I enjoy it tremendously, and it is wonderfully overwhelming to see people not just digging it and liking it.

A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.

Backhoes can save us a lot of digging. But of course, you can misuse it.

By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

Bergman was the first to bring metaphysics - religion, death, existentialism - to the screen. ... But the best of Bergman is the way he speaks of women, of the relationship between men and women. He's like a miner digging in search of purity.

Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging

But it's a whole lot easier to keep[secrets] when you've got someone else who knows breathing in the same room. Carrying them alone is like having a huge spiky weight digging into your shoulders and chest, a weight you can't shift even while you're sleeping.

Corsets do look so pretty. Once I watched it, I was like, "Well, they do look nicer than the way I do normally," but they're really uncomfortable. You start to realize why women would pass out. We had the real ones, and they were just awful. At one point, I was like, "I think that's my spleen that this is digging into." So, if I had a nightgown, that was always really comfy. I had a few coats that I thought were pretty cool.

Can't you just imagine digging up the King, begging him to sing about those heavenly mansions Jesus mentioned.

Democracy is born in dirt, nourished by the digging up and turning over as much of it as can be brought within reach of a television camera or subpoena.

Creating the record is like digging up the earth, planting your seeds and waiting to see what happens.

Funny thing how you first meet the woman that you marry. I first met the wife in a tunnel of love. She was digging it.

During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they were from a crash site. He presented photographs showing himself in company with others digging around obvious aircraft debris.

Digging a ditch where madness gives a bit Digging a ditch where silence lives Digging a ditch for when I'm old Digging this ditch my story's told Where all these troubles weigh down on me will rise ..... Where all these questions spinning round my head will die

From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships.

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

Getting married and really digging in with another human being can point out your greatest strengths and your greatest weaknesses.

Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?

If you are digging for excellent or suggestive renderings, this is among the richer mines.

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in Reality be digging a pit.

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible.

I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.