Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. —WILL ROGERS” — David Allen Copy Share Image
If you dig a hole and it's in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn't going to help. — Seymour Chwast Copy Share Image
“You know the good thing about digging your own grave? You always make it just the right size.” — Alison Gaylin Copy Share Image
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you. — Plautus Copy Share Image
When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing. — Leonard Woolley Copy Share Image
I've always had a special place in my heart for old women digging through garbage bins. They saved my life so many… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
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. — Randall Munroe 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
You know, many people believe that we archaeologists are just a collection of old fogies digging around in the ruins after old… — Griffin Jay Copy Share Image
Archaeology is the only branch of Anthropology where we kill our informants in the process of studying them. — Kent V. Flannery Copy Share Image
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love tearing things out of the ground. I love digging and discarding. I love pruning. In fact, I love pruning so… — Susan Orlean 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
You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where… — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
Archaeological materials are not mute. They speak their own language. And they need to be used for the great source they are… — Marija Gimbutas Copy Share Image
Understanding is the least important thing when it comes to digging jazzbecause, like anything else, jazz is a form of entertainment. It… — Cannonball Adderley Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things to do is sit around and listen to old records... You're forced to listen to the whole… — Ashley Monroe Copy Share Image
I think there's a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of the more superficial treatment of characters taking… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell's argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the Alberta tar… — Andrew Nikiforuk Copy Share Image
“Archaeology is a deeply conservative discipline and I have found that archaeologists, no matter where they are working, have a horror of… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Barna is correct when he writes, "After fifteen years of diligent digging into the world around me, I have reached several conclusions… — Ed Stetzer Copy Share Image
“In a manner of speaking, the fact that humankind itself is unpredictable is the quintessential stumbling-block for archaeologists. We have to assume… — Laurence Flanagan Copy Share Image
Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Now we are going to make a new-way path. So you take a shovel, you take a ground-haker, you take a hairpin… — Sherry Ruth Anderson Copy Share Image
Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Not many know that digging the akhada pit with spade is the best warm-up exercise. — Sangram Singh Copy Share Image
As long as you keep working, keep digging, then everything works out. — Michael van Gerwen Copy Share Image
Remember what to do when you're at the bottom of a hole? You've got to stop digging. — Carolyn Mackler Copy Share Image
...we are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth... — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image