Best 123 quotes in «digging quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

If you’re in a hole, stop digging.

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

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

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.