Quotes About Excavation

#1. As the Greeks see it, elegance arises from excavation, from the cavity.

Roberto Calasso

#2. An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way that it has evolved over the past century and a half.

Edith Hall

#3. Back in the 1980s, the 'News of the World' had specialised in digging into the privacy of criminals. In the 1990s, enriched by the excavation of Princess Diana's volatile life, they had widened their work to mine the activities of any celebrity, any public figure.

Nick Davies

#4. Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what it is, instead of constructing it upwards.

Rian Johnson

#5. Nietzsche is no more or less than the Schliemann of asceticisms. In the midst of the excavation sites, surrounded by the psychopathic rubble of millennia and the ruins of morbid palaces, he was completely right to assume the triumphant expression of a discoverer.

Peter Sloterdijk

#6. I'd been trained in the art of psychotherapy, the excavation of the past as a means of untangling the present and rendering it livable. It's detective work, of sorts, crouching stealthily in the blind alleys of the unconscious. (179)

Jonathan Kellerman

#7. Scorpions like holes. We had to put our arms in the holes to dig out the smelting residues. We always performed critter checks before an excavation, but one morning, I put an arm in and felt a sharp pierce. When I brought my hand out, it was red and already swelling.

Sarah Parcak

#8. Most people in archeology find their specialties in strange and unique ways. I always wanted to do archaeology, and then the time came for me to actually be in the field, and it was excruciatingly boring. Excavation is really, really boring.

Gail Carriger

#9. Her life seemed to her a great engineering work scarcely begun. Lately more excavation than construction had occurred. She had lost a sense of her own invincibility. In that way she was no longer archetypically American.

Marge Piercy

#10. Succinctly put, a crime scene is like an archaeology site. If an excavation is botched or bulldozed away, there's no going back.

Patricia Cornwell

#11. Once archaeologists have shown possible 'new' ancient features, they can import the data into their iPads and take it to the field to do survey or excavation work. Technology doesn't mean we aren't digging in the dirt anymore - it's just that we know better where to dig.

Sarah Parcak

#12. I believe that climate change is the great global crisis that we face, environmental crisis. I believe that if you're serious about climate change, you don't encourage the excavation and transportation of very dirty oil.

Bernie Sanders

#13. Sweet Jesus," he whispered, trailing kisses along the line of her jaw. "Our excavation must have freed some deep, dark ancient enchantment from the earth. How else to explain this magic?

Cara Elliott

#14. To remember was an act not of excavation but of self-creation in the present tense.

Laura Secor

#15. Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.

Tom Hiddleston

#16. I think Deborah Harry has a really sexy, cool and quite playful sex-kitten kind of style I really like.

Bat For Lashes

#17. Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks. It can be seen as a portable cell taken with us from the solitary place into the midst of our ministry. Silence is solitude practiced in action.

Henri Nouwen

#18. Freedom of the press is a flaming sword.
Use it wisely, hold it high, guard it well.

Robert B. Parker

#19. The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.

Bryant McGill

#20. It'd taken only a few hours, but I felt like Michelangelo staring at the Sistine Chapel after four years of hard labor, like Banksy after spending six days searching the Internet for ideas to steal and three minutes of sidewalk vandalism to execute them.

Paul Beatty

#21. Decision making is an art only until the person understands the science.

Pearl Zhu

#22. If I'm dying from anything, it's from indifference and red tape.

Vito Russo

#23. To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.

Spyridon Marinatos

#24. Nobody watched people that much, and for that long, except me, and I had serious emotional problems.

Dan Wells

#25. I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me.

Darren Shan

#26. Yeah it's completely different, it's matured tenfold. We wrote the first album over five years as teenagers but now we've got the opportunity to do InMe full-time. We've got closer together, we've got a better connection.

Dave McPherson

#27. Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to.

Reid Hoffman

#28. Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.

Wilfrid Sheed

#29. I don't see the songs as uplifting, but rather as trying to make lemonade from lemons, or whatever. When I listen to them, I understand the context. I don't like to pepper songs with my own experiences, though.

Patrick Stump

#30. For if there was no winter, we could never hope for spring.

Susanna Kearsley

#31. Since I travel to the four corners of this planet for work, I don't need sun holidays or that kind of thing.

Ben Elliot

#32. You treat people with dignity and respect and they give it right back to you.

Bill McDermott