Mine your words as if digging for diamonds and gold.

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

— Mae West

“There was a lot under those words. I'd go digging for it later.”

— Sarah Zettel

Happiness is the only thing on earth that cannot be paid by diamonds, gold or money.

— Anonymous

Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand with scholarly…

— Anonymous

I was a manual labourer. I figured out really early on that the value of my life could be determined by my hourly rate…

— Cliff Curtis

If you really want to be a good archaeologist, you have to understand ancient DNA; you have to understand chemical analysis to figure out…

— Sarah Parcak

I wish I lived back in the Old West days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years so I could buy…

— Jack Handey

The Ancient One, as you know, is the master, is the Sorcerer Supreme, and [Doctor] Strange comes to learn how to heal himself and…

— Tilda Swinton

I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for…

— Siri Hustvedt

When you consider the sheer magnitude of investable equities to choose from in the world's emerging markets, you realize that finding one that looks…

— Mark Mobius

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

— Haskell Wexler

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

— John Mellencamp

In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.

— Anonymous

In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

— Martin Luther

Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants…

— Hal Borland