Top 487 Digging Ditches Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

I guess I just like the idea of digging things up. Although I used to be scared of human skeletons.

Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.

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

I'm sick of being accused of gold-digging. It just so happens I get turned on by liver spots.

I usually try to write through pain and end up digging myself into a deeper hole.

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.

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

I know I'm probably digging for fresh fruit in the garbage, and as much as anyone, my attitude is, if stuff's sincere, it's gooey and boring and uninteresting. But it's no way to live.

Every child thinks archaeology is about digging up land to find dinosaur remains and gold. I had the same intentions.

That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?

I can't do that. I'm already the single guy living in his parents' house. I can't be seen digging a grave in the middle of the night.

I may be biased, but I think jackals are cute and cuddly, even if they were known for digging up graves in Ancient Egypt.

Well, I have a farm in Vermont that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!

Democracy is born in dirt, nourished by the digging up and turning over as much of it as can be brought within reach of a television camera or subpoena.

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

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.

Digg will serve as a means of gathering metrics for third party websites, providing them insights into who's digging their content, who they are spreading it to.

When designing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex.

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

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

My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.

It's a simplification to say that the men [during Stone Age] went to war to maintain their dominance over the women. The men would help dig agricultural ditches because they were superb farmers. That was very heavy lifting work. But then they just preened themselves, and put bird-of-paradise plumes [in their hair], and smoked dope.

Gardening is not my thing. You're digging in the dirt, and then a couple of months later, something happens.

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

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

Balancing the complex point of view in the edit room was mostly a matter of challenging ourselves to keep digging deeper.

I grew up on hip-hop and crate-digging and those sensibilities are deeply ingrained in me.

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

You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper

As for being on Twitter, I enjoy it tremendously, and it is wonderfully overwhelming to see people not just digging it and liking it.

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

Devoutly the teachers point out huge fumigated domes; but beneath the statues there's no love, no love beneath the eyes set in crystal. Love is there, in flesh ripped by thirst, in the tiny hut struggling against the flood; love is there, in ditches where snakes of hunger wrestle, in the sad sea that rocks dead gulls, and in the darkest stinging kiss under pillows.

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.

Creating the record is like digging up the earth, planting your seeds and waiting to see what happens.

When I was younger, I'd get very invested in things. It's a hard lesson to learn, but you have to know that if you want to find gold, you've got to love the process of digging.

Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens.

Can't you just imagine digging up the King, begging him to sing about those heavenly mansions Jesus mentioned.

[On her UNICEF work:] I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth. ... I do not want to see mothers and fathers digging graves for their children.

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

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.

No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.

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.

From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships.

It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.

The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.

You can just keep getting it worse until you have to pull back and let the audience breathe. But yeah, I really love digging.

The underlying principles or fundamentals should be so hidden away by the beauty they are eventually to support, that it would require much digging to disclose them.

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...

You want to dig your well where you have the best chance of finding water with the least amount of digging

When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.

Digging up graves is backbreaking work. So I just like that the genre of horror can embrace so many different styles and textures.

I thought of all that worked dark pits Of war, and died Digging the rock where Death reputes Peace lies indeed.

Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave.

I honestly love nothing better than digging into a really good serialized show, whether it's 'Breaking Bad' or 'Game of Thrones' or 'Justified.'

Not many know that digging the akhada pit with spade is the best warm-up exercise.

I have a nice house. And when somebody says it's a palace, I always feel like we're digging a little or something.

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.

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

I have a farm in Vermont; that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!