„The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.“
— Molly Ivins American journalist 1944 - 2007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/quiz/questions/0,,1943315,00.html
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/09/24/schroeder.blair/index.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20030621143902/http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/stories/s865620.htm
2000s
„The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.“
— Molly Ivins American journalist 1944 - 2007
„If you're in a hole, don't dig, they say.“
— John le Carré, buch The Mission Song
The Mission Song (2006)
„If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.“
— Will Rogers American humorist and entertainer 1879 - 1935
„The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.“
— Warren Buffett American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist 1930
— Karl Pilkington English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer 1972
The Podfather Trilogy , Episode 2 Thanksgiving
On Calendars
— Ilana Mercer South African writer
"Trump called Bush a liar & he won South Carolina (Nevada, too)," http://www.unz.com/imercer/trump-called-bush-a-liar-he-won-south-carolina-nevada-too/ The Unz Review, February 27, 2016.
2010s, 2016
„Should I get you a shovel, so you can dig that hole deeper?“
— Rick Riordan, buch The Hammer of Thor
Quelle: The Hammer of Thor
„You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.“
— Edward de Bono Maltese physician 1933
Quelle: Lateral Thinking : Creativity Step by Step (1970), p. 8.
— Thomas Friedman American journalist and author 1953
Imbalances of Power http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/opinion/21friedman.html, May 21, 2008.
— Constance Wu American actress 1982
As quoted in "Constance Wu on Confronting Hollywood's Racism" in The Cut (18 July 2016) https://www.thecut.com/2016/07/constance-wu-on-racism-hollywood-fresh-off-the-boat.html
— Moshe Dayan Israeli military leader and politician 1915 - 1981
On Israeli settlements on the Golan Heights and in Hebron, in a private conversation in 1976 with Rami Tal, as quoted in Associated Press http://www.radioislam.org/historia/zionism/dayan_regrets.html reports (11 May 1997)
„I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.“
— Laurie Halse Anderson American children's writer 1961
Quelle: Twisted
— Jesse Ventura American politician and former professional wrestler 1951
I Ain't Got Time To Bleed (1999)
Kontext: I'm all for gun control, I just define it a little differently. If you can put 2 rounds into the same hole from 25 meters, that's gun control! If you're going to own a gun, you have an obligation to know what you're doing with it. When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.
So I support waiting periods and training requirements for gun ownership, and I like the idea that it shouldn't be incredibly easy to get guns. I support the right to carry concealed weapons, but I think people who want a concealed-weapons permit need to pass a training and safety course. The Constitution calls for a "well-regulated militia." In other words, you need to know how to use your weapon, and practice with it.
Where I draw the line is at gun registration. A law that says that everybody who owns a gun has to be on record is too easy to abuse.
— Tom Holt, buch Who's Afraid of Beowulf?
Who's Afraid of Beowulf? (1988)
— Anke Engelke German actress 1965
Man soll aufhören, wenn es am schönsten ist - aber wir hatten nach der ersten Sendung nicht den Mut.
On the last Anke Late Night show (21 October 2004)
— Norman Lamont British politician 1942
Robin Oakley and Colin Narborough, "Lamont shows his determination to sink or swim with the pound", The Times, 27 August 1992.
Statement on the morning of 26 August 1992, at the start of the economic problems which eventually produced Black Wednesday.
— Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet British lawyer and Tory politician 1783 - 1870
Phillips v. Briard (1856), 4 W. R. 487.