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Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a brain in your head.
— Ann Miller
Controlling someone by changing their brain is like trying to stop a hovercar by digging a ditch. If they think hard enough, they can fly right over.
— Scott Westerfeld
Men can dig wells, but they can't create water.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.
— Heinrich Schliemann
You've got to be digging it while it's happening 'cause it just might be a one shot deal.
— Frank Zappa
History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.
— Wallace Stegner
We must, between periods of digging in the dark, endeavour always to transform our tears into knowledge.
— Alain De Botton
I honestly love nothing better than digging into a really good serialized show, whether it's 'Breaking Bad' or 'Game of Thrones' or 'Justified.'
— David S.Goyer
A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
— Henri Matisse
My father started on this golf course at Latrobe when he was sixteen years old. He was digging ditches when they were building the golf course.
— Arnold Palmer
I can show you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do for yourself.
— Matisyahu
When you find youself in a hole - stop digging.
— Will Rogers
Getting something done is like digging a well. You can dig a well seventy feet deep, but if you don't hit water it's just an abandoned well.
— Mencius
Someone is digging your grave right now.
— Richard Siken
American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place.
— Anthony F. C. Wallace
I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.
— Albert Camus
RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.
— Ambrose Bierce
You mean you don't wear thongs?" I ask, feigning exasperation. "Hell no! I'd be digging that thing out of my ass all night long.
— K.L. Grayson
You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.
— Ben Carson
digging for the truth, by definition, unearths things - and some things were safer left buried.
— Christine M. Whitehead
There is no bottom to the cake. I'm digging through the kind of soil that supports rhododendrons: it's that dark.
— Joanna Walsh
I didn't have to dig deep to love you, Jersey girl. Digging takes work. Falling in love with you was the simplest thing I've ever done.
— E.L. Montes
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.
— Les Dawson
I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.
— Jamaica Kincaid
Live, die, something else lives. The very soil humanity walks upon is built up from death. Digging into a flowerbed means digging into bones.
— M. Jones
data mining is the act of digging into large amounts of raw data to discover unique nontrivial useful patterns.
— Anil Maheshwari
An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.
— Richard Briers
When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.
— Will Rogers
That's the thing about digging holes," Quinn said. "There are no assurances you'll find what you want - or want what you find.
— Tami Hoag
It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.
— Denis Healey
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
— Marcus Aurelius
How do you think poetry helps people? he'd ask, wanting the whole thing quantified so he could compare it to digging wells in the Peace Corps.
— Paul Monette
It turned out the officer was escorting the soldier home. He'd gone mad: 'He's been digging ever since we left Kabul.
— Svetlana Alexievich
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.
— Gertrude Jekyll
You can just keep getting it worse until you have to pull back and let the audience breathe. But yeah, I really love digging.
— Ricky Gervais
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.
— Bono
I know how much embarrassment hurts, and I love it as a theme because you can keep digging a hole. It's just an endless well, embarrassment.
— Ricky Gervais
I met my fathers in prison, they too a part of a scene; digging death.
— Reginald Dwayne Betts
The further you descend into a pit, the darker things appear. You can't keep digging to find the light.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
She clutched him, her fingers digging in like she needed to gather parts of him to act as her own second skin for the rest of her life.
— Melina Marchetta
The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.
— Stan Getz
Healey's First Law Of Holes: When in one, stop digging.
— Denis Healey
I agree, and I doubt coma boy will even notice. I mean seriously, the guy was buried alive for heaven's sake, I added.
-Cora — Andrea Heltsley
-Cora — Andrea Heltsley
Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.
— Edna Ferber
Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.
— Andy Hargreaves
Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.
— Thomas Harris
If You find yourself in a hole; stop digging.
— Sharon Cooke Vargas
It was like digging for gold in a garbage pile. And if that little analogy didn't tell her something, she didn't know what could.
— Stacia Kane
If you're digging a hole in the wrong place, making it deeper doesn't help anything.
— Seymour Chwast
Somewhere in the midst of smudgy maps, following waters, surviving the storms, & deep, deep digging.. treasure is found.
— Debby Ryan
I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.
— John Mellencamp
Working in garden is like digging knowledge from the earth.
— Karthikeyan V
I had spent 10 days of my life digging for garbage.
— Jake M. Johnson
Change won't happen because everyone wishes it happens. It happens only when people decide that we'll never stop digging until we find our gold.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Creating the record is like digging up the earth, planting your seeds and waiting to see what happens.
— Jason Mraz
I've always had a special place in my heart for old women digging through garbage bins. They saved my life so many times as a baby.
— Emo Philips
I have tried to use memory and invention together, like two hands engaged in the same muddy work of digging up the past.
— Emma Donoghue
When you are in a hole, stop digging!
— Bill McKibben
Fuckin' crazy for you," he muttered, fingers digging into my skin. "Always have been.
— Joanna Wylde
Then came the digging. Oh God, the digging.
— Andy Weir
It takes time, patience, productivity and persistence to 'pop the oil'; just keep digging. Worthy investments take time to show positive returns.
— T.F. Hodge
My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.
— Anthony Kiedis
The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious.
— Charles James
I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.
— Ovid
From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships.
— Haskell Wexler
The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.
— Henry David Thoreau
When a man fell into a deep hole, it was usually a good idea to stop digging.
— Sharon Kay Penman
You know the good thing about digging your own grave? You always make it just the right size.
— Alison Gaylin
The first thing you ought to do when you find yourself in a hole is quit digging ... Instead they are looking for a bigger shovel.
— William J. Clinton
Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens.
— Michael Palin
It's dangerous, summoning old ghosts. You never know what they might want from you in return for digging them out of their graves.
— J.T. Geissinger
I take the subway four times a day, or close to it. I just love the subway! My grandfather worked as an electrician when they were digging the subway.
— Mike Birbiglia
I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.
— Katherine Heigl
What in the hell are you digging for?" "The seat belt." "Oh." She shrugged guiltily. "I cut them out. Everybody's doing it.
— Robyn Peterman
Have you heard the saying 'The reward you get for digging holes is a bigger shovel'?
— Terry Pratchett
Tracking the shiny is so much easier than digging for gold!
— Laura Miller
Can't you just imagine digging up the King, begging him to sing about those heavenly mansions Jesus mentioned.
— Warren Zevon
Then I'll do some digging. (Fury)
You just can't help this kamikaze streak you have, can you? (Sasha) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
You just can't help this kamikaze streak you have, can you? (Sasha) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Getting married and really digging in with another human being can point out your greatest strengths and your greatest weaknesses.
— Mat Kearney
It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.
— Lance Armstrong
We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.
— Holly Near
You are always digging in the past or poking at the future, but rarely do you rest in this moment.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Hand me a shovel, he thought. I'm getting tired of digging this hole for myself with my bare hands. -Ben
— Nora Roberts
Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
— William Moulton Marston