Richard Ramirez (1960–2013) American serial killer
Interview with Mike Watkiss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA6MkH9BHMg
“However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.”
The Story of Tong So, the Averter of Calamities
Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat (1928)
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Source: The Wind Through the Keyhole
“How deepe do we dig, and for how coarse gold?”
John Donne (1572–1631) English poet
Meditation 13
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
Clemantine Wamariya (1988) Rwandan-American activist and author
On her book The Girl Who Smiled Beads in “A Conversation with Clemantine Wamariya https://www.readitforward.com/author-interview/clemantine-wamariya/” in Read it Forward (2017)
“In a political struggle, never get personal — else the dagger digs too deep.”
Jack Valenti (1921–2007) President of the MPAA
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“Our passions are most like to floods and streams;
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.”
Walter Raleigh (1554–1618) English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer
Sir Walter Raleigh to the Queen (published 1655); alternately reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) as:
"Passions are likened best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb"
and titled The Silent Lover. Compare: "Altissima quæque flumina minimo sono labi", (translated: "The deepest rivers flow with the least sound"), Q. Curtius, vii. 4. 13. "Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep", William Shakespeare, 2 Henry VI. act iii. sc. i.
Pete Yorn (1974) American musician
" Suicide Girls Interview http://suicidegirls.com/interviews/Pete+Yorn/" (2003)
“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”
Harold Bloom (1930–2019) American literary critic and scholar
“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