Top 451 Digging Quotes & Sayings

Someone is digging your grave right now.

The music is at its best when people are truly digging in.

Well, putting words on paper isn't your job. Your job is to go digging around in your soul. And that's the end of it all. A songwriter's job is to go digging around in his soul. And come up with, and put to paper, what others can't express about the soul itself.

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

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

People spend thousands in therapy digging and digging in the past. When you dig and dig, you find relics. Try to forgive yourself and get back on that ride.

Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere.

Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants keepon digging. Most people don't. They establish contact with the soil, absorb so much vernal vigor that they can't stay in one place, and desert the fork or spade to see how the rhubarb is coming and whether the asparagus is yet in sight.

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

People are digging into house music even from other genres.

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

I have to dig from myself versus digging from something that I like. Digging from something you like is easy whereas from your inside, it's a totally different ballgame altogether. That's not a matter between picking red and blue, it's not like that. It's a decision, it's a choice and, like I've said in the past, it's like jumping off a cliff and hoping you survive the jump.

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

A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.

It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.

If you’re in a hole, stop digging.

I had spent 10 days of my life digging for garbage.

I'm a big believer in digging deep when I travel to a new place.

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

One of the reasons I think people are increasingly nervous about U.S. debt is because they think that we are not actually digging ourselves out of the hole, but instead are digging ourselves into a deeper and deeper hole and will not be able to pay it back because we're not actually creating the new technologies that will enable us to pay back and the money somehow is not really being invested in the future or in progress.

Acting in the movies is just like ditch-digging

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

I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters. At times I feel as if I am digging up people from the ice in which reality enshrouded them, but maybe, more than anything else, it is myself that I am now digging up.

You want to figure out how you want to play the guitar; what your niche would be. Well you just start digging deeper. When you're digging deeper in rock and roll you're on a freight train heading straight for the blues.

I'm digging Batman. I'm digging that balance, that duality. He's always on the edge and trying to balance himself within the rules of what's lawful and justice, and being Bruce Wayne and being Batman.

Digging sand is a bit like digging water. You take your trowel out and it all fills back up again, so there are a whole lot of different techniques that are required.

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

When you are in a hole, stop digging!

When you're in a hole, stop digging.

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

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

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

As a father I can't imagine the pain of digging my own child's grave.

I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.

When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

I first met my wife in the tunnel of love. She was digging it at the time.

Writing isn't hard - no harder than ditch digging.

Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?

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

If you are digging for excellent or suggestive renderings, this is among the richer mines.

I met my fathers in prison, they too a part of a scene; digging death.

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

We are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth.

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.

As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out; so, in digging in one's soul for the fine gold of genius, much dullness and common-place is first brought to light.

The hardest thing for me is to be patient and realize that it's not all going to happen right now. I just have to keep digging away, digging away. Just keep working on my game.

If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.

Keep digging, Flynn. Six feet makes a grave.

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

It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out ; so, in digging in one s soul for the fine gold of genius, much dulness and common-place is first brought to light. Happy would it be, if the man possessed in himself some receptacle for his own rubbish of this sort: but he is like the occupant of a dwelling, whose refuse cannot be clapped into his own cellar, but must be deposited in the street before his own door, for the public functionaries to take care of.

My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.

Tracking the shiny is so much easier than digging for gold!

Remember what to do when you're at the bottom of a hole? You've got to stop digging.

I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.

Pushing yourself and digging into something new, that's what being a musician is all about.

Digging a ditch where madness gives a bit Digging a ditch where silence lives Digging a ditch for when I'm old Digging this ditch my story's told Where all these troubles weigh down on me will rise ..... Where all these questions spinning round my head will die

As he rounded the corner, he saw two dozen men, naked to the waist, digging a hole thirty yards square at the side of the path. For a moment he was baffled. It seemed to have no agricultural purpose; there was no more planting or ploughing to be done. Then he realized what it was. They were digging a mass grave. He thought of shouting an order to about turn or at least to avert their eyes, but they were almost on it, and some of them had already seen their burial place. The songs died on their lips and the air was reclaimed by the birds.

I'm the sort of person that starts digging a hole and doesn't stop until it's finished.

Pray for rain while digging a well.

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.