“I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.”
Laurie Halse Anderson (1961) American children's writer
Source: Twisted
“Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.”
Last update June 3, 2021. History
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it." by Whoopi Goldberg?
Whoopi Goldberg15
American actress 1955Related quotes
“You have got through the difficult business, now you dig, dig, dig, until you are safe.”
Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton (1853–1947) British Army general
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
"Motto"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Variant: My motto,
As I live and learn,
is:
Dig And Be Dug
In Return.
“You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.”
Edward de Bono (1933) Maltese physician
Source: Lateral Thinking : Creativity Step by Step (1970), p. 8.
George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general
Speech to the Third Army (1944)
Context: When a man is lying in a shell hole, if he just stays there all day, a German will get to him eventually. The hell with that idea. The hell with taking it. My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one either. We'll win this war, but we'll win it only by fighting and by showing the Germans that we've got more guts than they have; or ever will have. We're not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we're going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We're going to murder those lousy Hun cocksuckers by the bushel-fucking-basket. War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts. When shells are hitting all around you and you wipe the dirt off your face and realize that instead of dirt it's the blood and guts of what once was your best friend beside you, you'll know what to do!
Prince (1958–2016) American pop, songwriter, musician and actor
Pop Life
Song lyrics, Around the World in a Day (1985)
“Don't dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.”
Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary
“I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
A Dead Statesman
Epitaphs of the War (1914-1918) (1918)
Context: I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
“The freedom is a tear digging into the flesh.”
Doina Ruști (1957) Romanian Writer
Source: The Phanariot Manuscript https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscrisul_fanariot
