Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Rogers

When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.

Bill McKibben

When you are in a hole, stop digging!

Christopher Paolini

I'm the sort of person that starts digging a hole and doesn't stop until it's finished.

A. A. Milne

I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer.

Lewis Thomas

The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.

John Carpenter

When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film - a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church.

E. O. Wilson

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

E. O. Wilson

The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.

E. O. Wilson

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

E. O. Wilson

Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at risk of pushing the rest of life off the globe.

E. O. Wilson

Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more quickly we will be able to discover the sources of human sensibility and acquire the knowledge on which an enduring ethic, a sense of preferred direction, can be built.

D. H. Lawrence

The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

Brad Arnsberg

He's a lot more conventional and a lot prettier to watch and he's really digging what we're trying.

Jeff Burton

I was digging after the restart and it just turned sideways. I am disappointed that we didn't win or do better than that in the end.

Nate McMillan

We've got to play better defense. We can't keep digging holes for ourselves early in the game then try to fight our way out of it.

Jill Abramson

I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.

Simeon Rice

Last year is last year. That's a done deal. That's why I don't even talk about last year that much. That was a joyous memory. Now we're living in the moment, and the moment right now is we're 4-5 and we're still digging and we're still struggling. What matters is the realness of the moment. That's what we're not overcoming right now. We're being overcome by it.

Charlie Villanueva

I didn't want the season over so soon. Next year I will come back ready, I'm not a rookie anymore. I learned a lot starting out 1-15 and digging out of that hole. It was a tough year though.

Will Rogers

When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

Cowboy Proverb

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging

Michael Kelly

I have way too shady a background to get into politics. I was a crazy kid - I was in bands, and I don't think I'd get very far before people started digging up stuff I didn't want them to see.