Shovels Quotes - Page 2

• The way you hold the bow, the way that violinists are trained to produce a note, is really different. I'm not an expert in classical music. I don't want to say something that ends up in print and somebody comes running after me with a shovel, but they're taught for each note to stand alone in a very deliberate kind of way, which is really different than how notes are strung together in old-time music to create rhythm.

  Bruce Molsky

  Running, Together, Experts

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The government are considering spending £3million on a state funeral for Margaret Thatcher when she dies. For £3million they could buy everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we'll dig a hole deep enough to deliver her to Satan ourselves.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Scotland

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• That's what a story must feel like to me. It's not, "I want to write about a gravedigger." But you're walking along and - boop! shovel. "Ok, what does one do with a shovel? Digs a hole. Why? I don't know yet. Dig the hole! Oh, look a body."

  George Saunders

  Writing, Doe, Looks

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Baby, your nothing but too much trouble. Gotta bury this love and bury the shovel.

  Clay Walker

  Baby, Too Much, Trouble

  Song: Bury The Shovel, Album: Hypnotize the Moon, 1995

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• At the end of the day, the only things that are shovel ready around here are the words coming out of Barack Obama and Joe Biden's mouth.

  Reince Priebus

  The End Of The Day, Mouths, Biden

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• The first thing you ought to do when you find yourself in a hole is quit digging. . . . Instead they are looking for a bigger shovel.

  William J. Clinton

  Finding Yourself, Digging, Firsts

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• It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really gone for good and someone throws the last shovel of dirt on a coffin with your name on it. That's the moment you're really retiring - when you die.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Retirement, Names, Long

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• Mother, are you there? I love you. I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel.

  Eminem

  Family, Mother, Love You

  Song: Role Model

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• Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.

  Dan Buettner

  Doors, Snow, Rakes

  "How To Live To 100 - Nine Healthy Habits" by Dan Buettner, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2008.

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• Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

  Mark Twain

  Healing, Intellectual, Spoons

  Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.219, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• I’m not against thinking; I’m only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Thinking, Holes, Needed

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• If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do: You must learn how to make a perfect chicken-dumpling stew. And you must sew my holey socks, And soothe my troubled mind, And develop the knack for scratching my back, And keep my shoes spotlessly shined. And while I rest you must rake up the leaves, And when it is hailing and snowing You must shovel the walk...and be still when I talk, And-hey-where are you going?

  Shel Silverstein

  Shoes, Snow, Perfect

  Shel Silverstein, “My Rules”

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• Listen, punk. To me you're nothin' but dogshit, you understand? And a lot of things can happen to dogshit. It can be scraped up with a shovel off the ground. It can dry up and blow away in the wind. Or it can be stepped on and squashed. So take my advice and be careful where the dog shits ya!

  Clint Eastwood

  Dog, Blow, Wind

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• ...stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel sh*t from a sitting position.

  Stephen King

  Ideas, Stopping, Sitting

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• I went out in my yard and saw a snake, so I got really scared, and I came back inside to get a shovel, and beat the hell out of that snake. Then I didn't have cable for a week.

  Charlie Viracola

  Snakes, Yards, Saws

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• You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel.

  Ken Kesey

  Corn, Neighbor, Seeds

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• Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.

  Saint Basil

  Men, Challenges, Good Man

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• There's a lot of intelligence in the hands.When you pick up a shovel, the hands know what to do. The same thing's true of sitting at the piano.

  Tom Waits

  Hands, Piano, Sitting

  1999 In the Dallas Observer, 6 May.

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• It's too early for there to be any coffee. I stare dully at the empty pot in the common room, while Sam picks up a jar of instant grounds. "Don't," I warn him. He scoops up a heaping spoonful and, heedlessly, shovels it into his mouth. It crunches horribly. Then his eyes go wide. "Dry," he croaks. "Tongue...shriveling." I shake my head, picking up the jar. "It's dehydrated. You're supposed to add water. Good thing you're mostly made of water." He tries to say something. Brown powder dusts his shirt. "Also," I tell him, "that's decaf.

  Holly Black

  Coffee, Eye, Dust

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• I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if one should ask a gravedigger what brand of shovel he uses or whether he prefers to work at noon or in moonlight. I am interested only in the care taken, and those secret rehearsals behind it. Even if I do not understand fully what is taking place.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Taken, Mean, Secret

  Michael Ondaatje (2010). “Divisadero”, p.134, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker: He could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants.

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Creating, Tree

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.94, Library of America

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• God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Heart, Paint, Brushes

  "Your Occasional Pope" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. April 29, 2015.

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• My next door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.

  Gary Johnson

  Dog, Jobs, Doors

  YouTube Chanel "acdccult69"/ "Gary Johnson's Dog Comment at Fox/Google debate 9/22/11", www.youtube.com. September 22, 2011.

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• If you have a lot of what people want and can't get, then you can supply the demand and shovel in the dough.

  Lucky Luciano

  People, Demand, Want

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• It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, because my job was to shovel snow, and I wasn't there to do it any more, so I was able to buy him a blower.

  Richard Gere

  Jobs, Father, Nice

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