Quotes About Digging Ditches

#1. For the first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it would be better for his health.

Ray Bradbury

#2. Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.

Maya Angelou

#3. At the end of the day, I'm reading the news. I'm not digging ditches. I'm not fighting fires. It's a long day, and it's a lot of responsibility, and it can be a little bewildering sometimes with the schedule. But, you know, it's a job, and they pay me well to do a job.

Lester Holt

#4. I tend to basically exaggerate in life, and in writing, it's fine to exaggerate. I really enjoy overstating for the purpose of getting a laugh. For another thing, writing is easier than digging ditches. Well, actually, that's an exaggeration. It isn't.

Dr. Seuss

#5. So long as I get some sleep and get to take care of myself and eat healthy and that sort of thing, I'm OK. I'm not out there digging ditches and it's not brain surgery.

Lisa Rinna

#6. My father started on this golf course at Latrobe when he was sixteen years old. He was digging ditches when they were building the golf course.

Arnold Palmer

#7. Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison - you can pray and know God hears!

Billy Graham

#8. I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging ditches or something. Get a life. You'll learn a lot more, and you won't write a lot of rotten poetry.

Butch Hancock

#9. Thinking, writing are ultimately questions of stamina.

Susan Sontag

#10. And now they are getting married, and I'm still single! What's wrong with me?

Mark McKinney

#11. I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.

Gene Ween

#12. Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#13. Bad day?" "Every day is a bad day here." "Eh, this place isnt't so terrible." "How are you always cheerful?" "Alcohol," he says with a sideways grin.

Pittacus Lore

#14. The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.

Mark Steyn

#15. At school I was an anti-magnet for women.

Nick Cave

#16. Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

Thomas Harris

#17. I have stated that a democracy is always two years behind the dictator.

Winston S. Churchill

#18. The moon sets. The next day you wake up in sheets that smell of fabric conditioner. There is CNN. There is coffee. There is weather. There is your human face in the mirror. The world, you discover, is a place of appalling continuity.

Glen Duncan

#19. Tantric Zen is for someone who is really broad-minded. It is Bodhidharma's Zen, your Zen, my Zen. Which doesn't mean I have a problem with Japanese Zen. Most Japanese Zen is minding your p's and q's.

Frederick Lenz