Digging Quotes

When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

If you're digging a hole in the wrong place, making it deeper doesn't help anything.

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

If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again (the right to do so being obtained, of course, by tendering for leases of the note-bearing territory), there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of repercussions, the real income of the community, and its capital wealth, would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is.

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

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

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

When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.

I learned early that business is business and politics is politics. The proof is how few important businessmen have made good politicians. They may think that they are very smart about everything because they made millions of dollars by digging a hole in the ground and finding oil, but the talent and luck needed to become rich are not the same talent and luck needed to succeed on Parliament Hill.

If you dig a hole and it's in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn't going to help.

I can show you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do for yourself.

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 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.

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

Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen: reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in. This is how we are going to live for a long time: not always, for every gardener knows that after the digging, after the planting, after the long season of tending and growth, the harvest comes.

You've got to be digging it while it's happening 'cause it just might be a one shot deal.

It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!

You want to dig your well where you have the best chance of finding water with the least amount of digging

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

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.

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.

The first rule of holes: When you're in one 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.

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...

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.