Quotes of: Shovel Keyword

The shovel insults the poker.

Russian

Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?

The Woman in the Dunes

Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river.

Chinese

Just when you think you've finally hit bottom, someone tosses you a shovel.

Traditional

Trailer Son: [after Sully throws Randall into a door and destroys it] Mama! 'Nother gator got in the house! Trailer Mom: Another gator? Gimme that shovel! [she begins to whack Randall with the shovel]

Monsters, Inc.

I can only think of one good reason not to kill you: because if I killed you, I’d have to bury you, and that means shoveling. And I hate shoveling almost as much as I hate digging up dirt on politicians.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

We're all in this together. I learned that lesson growing up in West Philly. When I shoveled the sidewalk my parents didn't let me stop with our house. They told me to keep shoveling all the way to the corner. I had a responsibility to my community.

Michael Nutter

Haskell to Quinlin You need anything, Quin, absolutely anything, you call me and I'll be there. Remember, friends help you move. Good friends help you move a body. Best friends bring their own shovel. You say the word, and I'll be there with a spanki...

Blind Desire

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work-- I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them high at Gettysburg And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. Shovel them under and let me work. Two years, ten years, and th...

Carl Sandburg

James Cody: You know, you've got to hand it to the Mexicans when if comes to swift justice. Once the Federales get their mitts on a criminal, they know just what to do with him. They hand him a shovel, tell him where to dig, when he's dug deep enough...

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Maude: Grab the shovel, Harold.

Harold and Maude

Running from the presence of God has the futility of "trying to shovel smoke with a rake".

Paul Tripp

Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since ’s time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the beach while the whole ocean lies before us unexplored remains substantially as true as ever, and will do so though w...

Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volumes V and VI, Pragmatism and Pragmaticism and Scientific Metaphysics

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time.

Janet Street-Porter

There are a lot of things I can't control. I don't know what's going to happen in the next few days.I don't want what I am going to face, what kind of choices I am going to have to make. I can't predict it. I can't control it. It's too big.' I nodded...

Small Favor

To find my mistakes, you’re going to need a shovel—and a missing person’s list.

Sleepwalking is restercise

Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.

John Wanamaker

I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job.

Lee DeWyze

I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.

Rufus Wainwright

Dead men’s fingernails make lovely shallow-grave shovels.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious