“Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.” — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain. — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting… — Bono Copy Share Image
American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place. — Anthony F. C. Wallace Copy Share Image
We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past. — Heinrich Schliemann Copy Share Image
In this sport, in this life, I think heart takes you a lot further than skill and technique... Just digging down deep… — Clay Guida Copy Share Image
Creating the record is like digging up the earth, planting your seeds and waiting to see what happens. — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Whatever it is your doing out there, don't lose hope, you just keep digging and things can work out. I'm proof. — Carl Edwards Copy Share Image
By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is crucial in a sound investment process to search a mile wide than a mile deep with they find something -… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
“Throw your hands and pull up those in the valley do the hill. However, press your feet on the ground so hard… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging… — Butch Hancock Copy Share Image
Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes… — William Moulton Marston Copy Share Image
After reading Howitt's account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,... I asked myself why I might not be washing some golddaily, though… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging,… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place… — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out; so,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
But it's a whole lot easier to keep[secrets] when you've got someone else who knows breathing in the same room. Carrying them… — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
I was lucky to wander into evolutionary theory, one of the most exciting and important of all scientific fields. I had never… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to. It's like… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
God is not merely at your fingertips but within your grasp. Live each day like a child digging through an antique treasure… — Margaret Feinberg Copy Share Image
I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
As he rounded the corner, he saw two dozen men, naked to the waist, digging a hole thirty yards square at the… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“[Foucault's] criticism is not transcendental, and its goal is not that of making a metaphysics possible: it is genealogical in its design… — Paul Rabinow Copy Share Image
I learned early that business is business and politics is politics. The proof is how few important businessmen have made good politicians.… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it’s not a matter of unimportant sites, but unimportant archaeologists.” — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image