Digging Quotes

I've had an unbelievable life. I've been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I'm from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, 'That's real work.'

When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.

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.

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?

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.

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

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!

As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest.

I've never seen a constructive Social Security debate that started with one side digging in, in one place and another side digging into another.

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

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

How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.