Jimi Hendrix
Musician, Guitarist
"I want to thank you my sweet darling for digging in the mud and picking me up."
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Digging
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Russell Simmons
Entrepreneur, Music Producer
"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."
Michelangelo Antonioni
Film Director, Screenwriter
"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..."
Edward de Bono
Psychologist
"You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper."
Charles James
Fashion Designer
"The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious."
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"We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities."
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"The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health."
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"Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging"
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"By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich"
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"I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again - it is hers yet - he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it."
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"If I hadn't done this I might have ended up digging the roads."
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"No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday."
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"You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper"
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"You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain."
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"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."
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"Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere."
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"A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging."
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"In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure."
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"I have a nice house. And when somebody says it's a palace, I always feel like we're digging a little or something."
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"Pray for rain while digging a well."
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"I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues."
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"Tracking the shiny is so much easier than digging for gold!"
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"Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?"
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