Best 123 quotes in «digging quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral.

If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.

If Israel sent the IDF three kilometers into Lebanon and started digging trenches and building bunkers it would make news all over the world. But Syria does it and everyone shrugs. Hardly anyone even knows it happened at all.

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

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

If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.

If you listen to everybody's opinions, I mean, I always say I'd be digging a ditch on the side of the road now if I had listened to what everybody told me what to do. You know, you have to follow your heart, you have to.

If you’re in a hole, stop digging.

I love tearing things out of the ground. I love digging and discarding. I love pruning. In fact, I love pruning so much that I once gave myself carpal-tunnel syndrome because I attacked a trumpet vine with so much dedication.

I have a nice house. And when somebody says it's a palace, I always feel like we're digging a little or something.

I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again.

I had spent 10 days of my life digging for garbage.

I honestly love nothing better than digging into a really good serialized show, whether it's 'Breaking Bad' or 'Game of Thrones' or 'Justified.'

I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave.

I may be biased, but I think jackals are cute and cuddly, even if they were known for digging up graves in Ancient Egypt.

I'm a nostalgic person and I really like rehashing and digging around the mental trunks.

I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.

I'm sick of being accused of gold-digging. It just so happens I get turned on by liver spots.

I'm not digging tunnels, I'm not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating.

In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

I read once about the concepts of a lateral idea and the vertical idea. If you dig a hole and it’s in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn’t going to help. The lateral idea is when you skip over and dig someplace else.

In Christ are treasures that will require digging to the end of the world.

It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.

I take the subway four times a day, or close to it. I just love the subway! My grandfather worked as an electrician when they were digging the subway.

It is crucial in a sound investment process to search a mile wide than a mile deep with they find something - also.. never stop digging for information.

I've had an unbelievable life. I've been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I'm from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, 'That's real work.'

It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.

It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.

I understand the rules of Superman - not necessarily better than anyone else - but better than a normal filmmaker would. After doing 'Watchmen' and digging that deep into the why of superheroes, when Superman is presented to you, I felt like I was in a unique position to say 'I get this guy. I know what this is.

I've always had a special place in my heart for old women digging through garbage bins. They saved my life so many times as a baby.

I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little Sister.' I fell in love with Chandler that night. I fell right down the rabbit hole of crime fiction.

I want to thank you my sweet darling for digging in the mud and picking me up.

I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.