Digging Quotes

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. (Will Rogers)
You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper. View quote
Edward de Bono
I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples. View quote
John Updike
The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website. View quote
Nick Bostrom
We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under. View quote
Holly Near
I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he? View quote
Ian St John
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. View quote
Donald Rumsfeld
The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is. View quote
Joss Whedon
The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels. View quote
Thomas Friedman
The trouble, doll Is not moving mountains, but Digging the ground that you're on. View quote
Jakob Dylan
Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which is rock-like. But because it is so deep we need both patience and perseverance when digging for it. (Paul Brunton)
I may be biased, but I think jackals are cute and cuddly, even if they were known for digging up graves in Ancient Egypt. View quote
Rick Riordan
I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character. View quote
Sarah Zettel
Tears have the value of gold on the scales of the human heart' and the weights do not ask whether it is found or stolen gold, or whether you had to sweat in the digging. View quote
Ferenc Molnar
I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, digging my nails into my palms, staring at the inside of my eyelids as though I could maybe see through them if I peered hard enough. View quote
Charlaine Harris
I swear if that's a pair of demon horns digging into my belly and stabbing me right now, Ash, I'm going to beat you after it's born." 'Cause face it, horns on the head didn't come from my side of the family or genetic code. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past. View quote
Anita Desai
Shaunee was digging in her purse like she'd misplaced a tube of one of MAC's seasonal lipsticks that you buy and fall in love with AND THEN THEY DISCONTINUE IT BECAUSE THEY REALLY HATE US AND WANT US TO BE CRAZY. View quote
P. C. Cast
Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold. View quote
William Moulton Marston
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. (Brian Setzer)
There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you're letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there. View quote
Chellie Pingree
We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave. View quote
Christine Keeler
We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past. View quote
Heinrich Schliemann
Finally, after a lot of searching and digging, it was simply the love of family that gave me a road into the character. Once I got into that, and we delved into what it would be like to survive cancer and the ability to see how precious life is, it became easier to play her. View quote
Jeanne Tripplehorn