Quotes About Dredging

#1. The pool was but a stone's throw from the house, and I arrived there in a few minutes, only to find a boy disturbing the water by dredging it with a worm. Him I lured away with a cake of chocolate ... Every day I see the head of the largest trout I ever hooked, but did not land.

Theodore Gordon

#2. I sometimes use music as way of getting back to a certain time, dredging up stuff from the past and putting it down on canvas.

Danny Fox

#3. When something's painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it's nothing but bad stuff?

Shane Koyczan

#4. Some nights are three nights long,
some days a mere noon hour, then whistled
back to work, the heart dredging sludge.

Jim Harrison

#5. The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement.
[Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech]

John Steinbeck

#6. I wanted to get from 4th street to 8th ... Then I remembered Einstein postulating that parallel lines eventually meet. They're dredging my car from Lake Michigan as we speak.

Emo Philips

#7. Once in my life I knew a grief so hard I could actually hear it inside, scraping at the lining of my stomach, an audible ache, dredging with hooks as rivers are dredged when someone's been missing too long. I have to think my mother felt something like that.

Leif Enger

#8. I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#9. Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Seamus Heaney

#10. And it seems to me that everyone is like me - they're all afraid of the slightest movement ... Everyone's sitting all closed up in his own glass cage waiting for something.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#11. Cannibals are devouring senators.

Arlen Specter

#12. As life begins with a tiny little thing, success begins with tiny little steps forward.

Debasish Mridha

#13. To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.

Shunryu Suzuki

#14. The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people who produces them.

Malcolm Muggeridge