Digging Quotes - Page 2

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

It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

Whatever it is your doing out there, don't lose hope, you just keep digging and things can work out. I'm proof.

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

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

You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.

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.

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

The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious.

Somewhere in the midst of smudgy maps, following waters, surviving the storms, & deep, deep digging.. treasure is found.

The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels.

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.

We are often told we are materialistic. It seems to me, we are not materialistic enough. We have a disrespect for materials. We use it quickly and carelessly. If were genuinely materialistic people, we would understand where materials come from and where they go to. But, at the moment, the entire global economy seems to be built on the model of digging things up from one hole in the ground on one side of the earth, transporting them around the world, using them for a few days, and sticking them in a hole in the ground on the other side of the world.

If you’re in a hole, stop digging.

When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging.

Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere.

I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer.

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

Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging

The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.

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

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

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

The [palette] fantasy is always to get what you want, what you wear, and to be able to take it with you, so you don't have to bring all the other stuff. I just started digging through my drawers of my favorites, and I asked myself what is it that I cant live without?

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.