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Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging
Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?
I can show you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do for yourself.
Pushing yourself and digging into something new, that's what being a musician is all about.
If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible.
I'm sick of being accused of gold-digging. It just so happens I get turned on by liver spots.
The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious.
From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships.
We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.
It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.
I guess I just like the idea of digging things up. Although I used to be scared of human skeletons.
I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.
Then I’ll do some digging. (Fury) You just can’t help this kamikaze streak you have, can you? (Sasha)
RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.
Creating the record is like digging up the earth, planting your seeds and waiting to see what happens.
Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.
You want to dig your well where you have the best chance of finding water with the least amount of digging
The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels.
I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.
A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.
Gardening is not my thing. You're digging in the dirt, and then a couple of months later, something happens.
I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.
Can't you just imagine digging up the King, begging him to sing about those heavenly mansions Jesus mentioned.
Whatever it is your doing out there, don't lose hope, you just keep digging and things can work out. I'm proof.
By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich
I have a nice house. And when somebody says it's a palace, I always feel like we're digging a little or something.
We do have a saying in America: if you're in a hole, stop digging ..... erm, I'm not sure I should have said that.
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.
Every child thinks archaeology is about digging up land to find dinosaur remains and gold. I had the same intentions.
American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place.
Somewhere in the midst of smudgy maps, following waters, surviving the storms, & deep, deep digging.. treasure is found.
If you'd rather spend the holidays with your friends or your dog or digging wells in Kenya than with your family, do it.
I may be biased, but I think jackals are cute and cuddly, even if they were known for digging up graves in Ancient Egypt.
Anytime you go digging around on the internet and into your world, maybe you don't want to find out where your name pops up.
You can just keep getting it worse until you have to pull back and let the audience breathe. But yeah, I really love digging.
I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.
History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.
The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.
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.
Getting married and really digging in with another human being can point out your greatest strengths and your greatest weaknesses.
If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.
As for being on Twitter, I enjoy it tremendously, and it is wonderfully overwhelming to see people not just digging it and liking it.
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.
As a musician you're always your own worst critic and you're always digging into your songs and evaluating your own self-worth of things.
There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It's why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.
I honestly love nothing better than digging into a really good serialized show, whether it's 'Breaking Bad' or 'Game of Thrones' or 'Justified.'
I say to my pupils, 'You can pitch me any thing you've got, but tell me why you're the only person who can write it in the world. Keep digging.'