Best 123 quotes in «digging quotes» category

We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.

We do have a saying in America: if you're in a hole, stop digging ..... erm, I'm not sure I should have said that.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.

We have to get children to understand that not only do they have this incredible uniqueness, but they also have something that sometimes we forget about. They are also potentiality. They are much more undiscovered than they are discovered. And there's the wonder of it. It doesn't matter where they are, they're only just beginning and the big magical trip of life is digging it all out and discovering the wonderful you.

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

Well, I have a farm in Vermont that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!

Well, putting words on paper isn't your job. Your job is to go digging around in your soul. And that's the end of it all. A songwriter's job is to go digging around in his soul. And come up with, and put to paper, what others can't express about the soul itself.

We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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