Machine That Digs Quotes

#1. Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself - clay to be available for future use.

David Byrne

#2. There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#3. What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.

Henry Louis Gates

#4. Without the a test you don't have a testimony.

Iyanla Vanzant

#5. We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions
some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive
to fill the emptiness.

Jim Clemmer

#6. The last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.

Walter Isaacson

#7. What's the point in having one another if we're just going to allow each other to die when the time comes?

Sarah Noffke

#8. Sometimes a person's first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.

Sara Sheridan

#9. Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

Edna Ferber

#10. Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues.

Evan Davis

#11. I thought I was funny as a kid. I used to play tricks on my brothers - I'd tie a two-shilling piece to a bit of cotton, then pull it away as they went to grab it.

Jo Brand