“ For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petard… ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.5K
“ 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. ”
- Gertrude Jekyll- Copy
- 2.3K
“ They can hold a shovel and work at digging and feel like they're participating. They can pull on the plants to pull 'em out of the container. They really do help as much as they can help. ”
- Pam Brown- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I don't plan on digging that stuff up that I've kept down with my feet. Why would I want to dig it all up and examine it like an archaeologist? ”
- Albert Finney- Copy
- 2K
“ Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism — victimless collecting, as it were… in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage… ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
- 2.7K
“ We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it… That does not fit my definition of a good tenant. If we were here on a month-to-month basis, we would have been evicted long ago. ”
- Rose Elizabeth Bird- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Those were the great days of excavating… anything to which a fancy was taken, from a scarab to an obelisk, was just appropriated, and if there was a difference with a brother excavator, one laid for him with a gun. ”
- Howard Carter- Copy
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