Digging Quotes

• Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!

  Edna Ferber

  Writing, Climbing, Interesting

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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

  Molly Ivins

  Political, Politics, Firsts

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• There's a light at the end of the tunnel. And it's a train.

  Margaret Smith

  Positive, Sassy, Tunnels

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• He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging... This confers the tone and bearing of genuine reminiscences. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil.

  Walter Benjamin

  Real, Past, Men

  "Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writings".

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• If you’re in a hole, stop digging.

  Denis Healey

  Holes, Ifs

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• By analyzing data from Greenwich Observatory in the period 1836-1953, John A. Eddy [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and High Altitude Observatory in Boulder] and Aram A. Boornazian [mathematician with S. Ross and Co. in Boston] have found evidence that the sun has been contracting about 0.1% per century during that time, corresponding to a shrinkage rate of about 5 feet per hour. And digging deep into historical records, Eddy has found 400-year-old eclipse observations that are consistent with such a shrinkage.

  Jonathan Sarfati

  Years, Data, Feet

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• Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

  William Moulton Marston

  Work, Butterfly, Chasing Butterflies

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• My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.

  Alex Haley

  Men, Roots, Yellow

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

  Holly Near

  Relative Truth, Relative

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• We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

  Christine Keeler

  Talking, Spy, Graves

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• 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.

  Anita Desai

  Believe, Book, Past

  "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

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• I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

  Emily Carr

  Art, Thinking, Growth

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• Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

  J. B. Priestley

  Children, Garden, Public Opinion

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

  Thomas Friedman

  Three, Firsts, Holes

  "Imbalances of Power" by Thomas Friedman, www.nytimes.com. May 21, 2008.

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• I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.

  John Mellencamp

  Deeper

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• If I hadn't done this I might have ended up digging the roads.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Done

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Joss Whedon

  Determination, Hero, Tunnels

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• When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

  Will Rogers

  Digging A Hole, Finding Yourself, Digging Ditches

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• 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?

  Ian St John

  Christmas, Garden, Awards

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• Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world.

  Marcy Kaptur

  Fashion, Leader, House

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

  Denis Healey

  Digging A Hole, Law, Firsts

  "The old bruiser who remained the boy next door". Interview with William Keegan, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2006.

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• 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.

  Jeanne Tripplehorn

  Cancer, Character, Family Love

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• 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.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Strong, Class, Economy

  "Special Coverage for the DNC". "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. August 26, 2008.

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• When you are in a hole, stop digging!

  Bill McKibben

  Digging A Hole, Climate Change, Holes

  Twitter post from Sep 23, 2016

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• Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

  Linda Chavez

  Government, Sea, Literature

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