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The common error today is to bring God so close that we strip Him of His "godness." We think we have him figured out. So God becomes our pal, our buddy, our Divine Butler." from "Dug Down Deep -- Joshua Harris
In Norway, we have a community of people who prefer to use a version of Norwegian that looks very much like lutefisk: Dug up remains from the garbage heap of history and dressed up to look like a tradition. -- Erik Naggum
I've come to see that you can limit God is different ways. You can limit Him by thinking he can never work in spectacular ways. But you can also limit Him by thinking that only the spectacular is meaningful." - from "Dug Down Deep -- Joshua Harris
I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found. -- Mary Leakey
I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive. -- Elizabeth I
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. -- Ray Charles
At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess. -- Earl Sweatshirt
We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole. -- Harry Reid
Early 1900s Hollywood was full of farmers battling to hold onto their land against a new influx of filmmakers who dug Hollywood's reliable weather and diverse landscape. -- Shawn Amos
It's definitely thrilling to know that you studied for something, and then you went in, and tried to do your best, and then somebody dug what you did. -- Paula Garces
I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi. -- Ethan Hawke
I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important. -- Larry Bishop
The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool - the street scene of an old aristocratic kind of man. -- Gregory Corso
As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems. -- Bernie Mac
I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time. -- Ian Mcewan
My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it. -- Dimebag Darrell
A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles! -- Charles Anthon
I picked Dad's guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back up when I was 15 and dug in. The guitar helped me come out of my shell and kind of gave me an identity at school. -- Dustin Lynch
One day in 1984, at the height of his fame, Michael Jackson made a visit to the White House. President and Nancy Reagan may not have dug his music, but they understood the power Mr. Jackson commanded as a common pop-cultural touchstone for just about everyone else. -- Monica Crowley
Every song you write you think is the last one you're going to manage. You put everything you've got into the song, and you've twisted it and pulled at it and dug in and found a way to complete it. To get another one is the trick. -- Jakob Dylan
The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery. -- Ernie Pyle
Joining another big time rock band was the last thing I was looking for, but as the tour went on, I really dug playing to a lot of people, the band sounded great, and just being out there again, got me over my depression and so I decided to hop on board. -- Matt Cameron
I'll never forget the first time I saw someone who had died. It was my grandfather. And I knelt next to his coffin. And all I could do was eye level was look at his hands. They were enormous hands. And all I could think was, 'Those hands dug freedom for me.' -- Rick Santorum
I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I'd wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to, I don't know, I just wanted to taste life. I dug graves for a while, I worked as a stock boy in a big department store, I worked in a bank. -- Graydon Carter
In the movies, I loved Errol Flynn whether he was playing a soldier or a pirate. I dug pirates. In fact, my first exposure to live performances was when my paternal grandfather took me to a D'Oyly Carte performance of 'The Pirates of Penzance' which impresario Sol Hurok imported from London. I loved every minute of it. -- Stephen Lang
For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living world had never changed. But when the first stirrings of industry demanded that fuel be dug from the earth and hillsides be leveled for roads and railways, the Earth's true past was dug up in abundance. -- Kenneth R. Miller
My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant for a decade; I dug ditches and loaded trucks with black men who taught me more than any book ever could; and I graduated from Ole Miss. Anyone who survived that is a de facto expert on the South. -- Greg Iles
I worked on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange back when they used to write tickets. And I was just a runner. So a guy would write a ticket and I would run it, and it was endless. That was a hard job. And I dug tungsten... for a coal company in Wyoming one summer, and that was pretty miserable. -- John C. McGinley
When The Who first started, we were playing blues, and I dug the blues and I knew what I was supposed to be playing, but I couldn't play it. I couldn't get it out. I knew what I had to play; it was in my head. I could hear the notes in my head, but I couldn't get them out on the guitar. -- Pete Townshend
There was earth inside them, and they dug. -- Paul Celan
The Panama Canal was dug with a microscope. -- Ronald Ross
Not all the coal that is dug warms the world. -- Mother Jones
Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth. -- Ovid
Wrinkles are ditches that the gods have dug for our tears. -- Emile Augier
There are men who dig for gold; [Monseigneur Bienvenu] dug for compassion. -- Victor Hugo
I've always dug Audrey Hepburn. I think she's one of the classic beauties. -- Estelle
This time you've dug yourself an anchor too heavy to move ahead with. -- Al Kaline
A dog's good for filling a grief-dug hole.""In the Shape of Shep -- Eileen Granfors
What's important? That which is dug out of books, or out of the guts? -- Theodore Roethke
As for food, half of my friends have dug their graves with their teeth. -- Chauncey Depew
His hands fell to my hips, and his fingers dug through my rain-drenched clothes. -- Shannon A. Thompson
I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet. -- Tommy Docherty
At the bottom of freshly dug holes, I bury my problems alongside the waxen seeds. -- Kelseyleigh Reber
I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.' -- Gary Ross
My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean. -- Larry Bishop
The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants. -- Charles Baudelaire
...became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full. -- Anne Sexton
I've dug so deep into his background, I can practically tell you when he stopped waring diapers. -- C.C. Hunter
Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood? -- Maggie Stiefvater
Despite marking the spot, Generation X has no treasure. How could they, when I dug it up first? -- Jarod Kintz
I, more or less, love camping out, so I dug it, but I didn't enjoy other people's pain. -- Casper Van Dien
I didn't know the right names for anything at first, but I knew what knocked me out. Changes... man I dug. -- Roy Eldridge
Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will not work. -- Arundhati Roy
Get your pockets dug from all your chemical bank ends caught him at the red light - on Putman Avenue and Franklin -- GZA
I dug up my dad's old Fred Astaire tapes, and now I find him super-inspiring. He's, like, one of the best dancers. -- Adam G. Sevani
On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar. -- J. K. Rowling
One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Say, did you read what this writer just dug up in George Washington's diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all night reading it. -- Will Rogers
I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return. -- Langston Hughes
You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder. -- Emily Carr
How much of the national news that you report to the public each night consists of information you've actually gone out and dug up on your own? -- Johnny Carson
I think we don't do a service to dialogue between science and faith to characterize sincere people by calling them names. That inspires an even more dug-in position. -- Richard Dawkins
If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now and then, a stance. -- Seamus Heaney
Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system. -- Carter G. Woodson
I think the recovery hasn't been stronger because the hole that was dug for President Obama by the Bush administration was far worse than anybody could imagine, first of all. -- Howard Dean
The West is anxious about becoming another Africa, and it has dug deep moats in the hopes of preventing that, but it's too late: it has already become another Africa. -- Andre Naffis-Sahely
I don't know what I was thinking, coming out here. There are no silver bullets in life, there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug youself. -- Jodi Picoult
I built my ex wife a Castle of Love, and she dug a moat and filled it with sharks and lawyers. Oh well, at least I got to keep the unicorn. -- Jarod Kintz
Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal. -- Honore de Balzac
Mendeleev, unlike the squeamish Meyer, had balls enough to predict that new elements would be dug up. Look harder, you chemists and geologists, he seemed to taunt, and you'll find them. -- Sam Kean
The States were much more fun. L.A. was L.A. It's not L.A. now. L.A. infested with jaded 12-year-olds is not the L.A. that I really dug. -- Robert Plant
I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave. -- Dominic Cooper
Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward. -- Jane Addams
My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it. -- Abigail Spencer
You really dug your own grave," he mutters. "And I'm going to bury you in it." "Say that louder," I tell him, under my breath. "I dare you. -- Holly Black
In actuality it's drum samples in the computer. I don't know, I've just never really dug into that whole technology thing, I feel like it hurts me as a musician a little. -- The Rocket Summer
I was a typical kid. I dug holes in the yard, threw rocks, had plum battles with the neighbours and used trash can lids as shields. I was always outside getting dirty. -- Arj Barker
Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces? -- C. S. Lewis
My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug 'Vanity Fair.' You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it. -- Abigail Spencer
That was the way of this cold world, where men fished the sea and dug in the ground and died, whilst women brought forth short-lived children from beds of blood and pain. -- George R. R. Martin
The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not. -- C. S. Lewis
If you insist on digging for the truth, you can start at the cemetery. But not the one on the wealthy side of town, because I already dug up everything of value. -- Jarod Kintz
I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken. -- Andy Hertzfeld
She (Daisy) dug her nails into her palms and told herself she had no choice. "I, Theodosia..." She gulped for air. "...take thee Alexander..." She gulped again. "...to be my awful wedded husband... -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The photographer who attempts to fit happily into the world by using the traditional perspective of the camera will end up falling into the hole of the "idea" he has dug for himself. -- Daido Moriyama
Thinking about such things soothed the creature as it dug at the base of a tall oak tree, deep into the ground, covering itself with dirt and leaves and moss; hiding, healing, waiting. -- Joe DeRouen
They love me like I was a brother They protect me, listen to me They dug me my very own garden Gave me sunshine, made me happy Nice dream, nice dream Nice dream -- Thom Yorke
If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light at the dug out camera. -- Ryne Sandberg
From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true. -- Franz Kafka
I decided five years ago that I wanted to truly understand, for myself, what the state of the planet was, and when I dug into it, what I found was quite different than I'd imagined. -- Ramez Naam
Research is always the best part. As we dug deeper into the history and mythology behind each of the hallows, we discovered more and more stories - some of them deserving of novels in themselves. -- Michael Scott
Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I now realize there are millions of self-made millionaires who started with nothing. They dug inside themselves to find the answers and they succeeded. There is nothing anyone else can do that I can't do. -- Dean Graziosi

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