James Clapper

I do think - the metaphor I always use - it's the role of intelligence community to stay down in the engine room and shovel that intelligence coal, and people on the bridge get to decide where to drive the ship and how fast and how to arrange all the deckchairs.

American Public Servant

Charlie Munger

There's danger in just shoveling out money to people who say, 'My life is a little harder than it used to be.' At a certain place you've got to say to the people, 'Suck it in and cope, buddy. Suck it in and cope.

American Businessman

Richard Gere

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.

American Actor

Bill Medley

Passion: It's what separates a singer from an entertainer. I hope I have passion for my music, my family, and my friends until they start shoveling dirt on my face.

American Musician

Nikita Khrushchev

I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

Russian Statesman

Phyllis Diller

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

American Comedian

Janet Street-Porter

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

British Journalist

Robert Ballard

You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.

American Scientist

Princess Michael of Kent

I have a pooper-scooper, a long-handled thing with a little shovel.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

American Judge

Shovel noun often refers to manual work and outdoor activities.

Physical Labor

For precise garden work, a trowel is more appropriate than the broader shovel.

Not For Precision

The shovel can symbolize hard work in various cultural expressions.

Cultural Symbol

As a verb, 'shovel' is often used when talking about clearing snow in winter.

Seasonal Usage

Using 'shovel' as a verb implies substantial effort and physical work.

Physical Exertion

As a verb, 'shovel' indicates an action done quickly, often without attention to detail.

Hasty Action

'Shovel' as a colloquial verb could mean doing something carelessly or with little thought.

Colloquial Expression

In informal contexts, 'to shovel in' can describe eating rapidly and without manners.

Eating Quickly

 but I make everyone go down to these dead fossil areas and spend ages kind of shoveling around on the seafloor. And we pick up all these corals, bring them back, we sort them out. But each one of these is a different age, and if we can find out how old they are and then we can measure those chemical signals, this helps us to find out

The secrets I find on...

 but it's up to the reader to let their eyes skim over them or break out a shovel and dig in. And once you start excavating the text, you'll find the book to be an encyclopedic treasure trove. It's filled with all manner of references and allusions from medieval philosophy to the symbolism of tattoos,

Why should you read...

 get them with shovels or not get them and then you know run around and eventually uh uh eventually we won the battle us versus nature i think that's probably the most memorable field experience uh jing-mei what about you it could be field or lab um we were in somewhere deep in mongolia

Reimagining Dinosaurs PIPE...

 ice must be shoveled out of the belugas enclosures to keep the water from freezing over if the water freezes the juvenile belugas won't be able to breathe at the surface and will eventually drown according to foster some of the orcas appear to have developed a skin

Nearly 100 Captive Orcas...

 he said, "For that kind of money I'll do it myself." So for the next three days he was out shoveling cement, and hauling poles around. And predictably, perhaps, on the fourth day he ended up in the operating room. But not as the guy on the table;

Dan Buettner: How to...

 the fur are those of its back legs which are huge and support its whole body that's why it's called a kangaroo rat its front legs are working away hidden beneath its chin shoveling the seeds into its mouth normally a kangaroo rat would have to

Aggressive Nightlife of...

 not "You're beautiful." Oh, and character was built by doing chores. When I wasn't mucking out the goat barn, I was shearing sheep, changing tires, scrubbing toilets, volunteering, shoveling snow.

Bryce Dallas Howard: How...

 living in a burrow with her mother her long shovel like claws are perfect for digging and her strong teeth the designed for chewing roots bark and vegetation well adapted for a life in

Orphan Wombat Preparing...

 babies and gobble them up just scaring them off isn't the answer the cichlid has to create a safe haven for its young using its mouth as both shovel and bucket then it moves its

Killer Cuckoo Catfish PIPE...

 year old trees using picks and shovels and we built 10-foot tall towers stone by stone connected through a mortar mix so that sand gravel and cement but it was at night