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Quotes About Dredging

Making music is like constructing a machine whose function is to dredge up emotions in performer and listener alike.
~ David Byrne
Ensuring ports are dredged is essential to securing America's place in global trade.
~ Ander Crenshaw
Furthermore, both Pennsylvania and New Jersey Departments of Environmental Protection have evaluated the sediment to be dredged and also found it to be not toxic.
~ Robert Brady
Darkness at high altitude, the midflight quietude, always makes him think of the bottom of the ocean. There's a submarine quality to the experience, a sense of dredging the bottom instead of scraping up against the stratosphere.
~ Dominic Smith
Never an intellectual who relished ideas for their own sake, he mined books for practical wisdom and delighted in dredging up handy aphorisms.
~ Ron Chernow
Resistance knows that the more psychic energy we expend dredging and re-dredging the tired, boring injustices of our personal lives, the less juice we have to do our work.
~ Steven Pressfield
When dredging up an old scandal proved ineffective, zealous Democrats invented a new one.
~ Candice Millard
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
It is the poet who goes further than any human scientist. The poet who with her dredging net must haul up difficult things and return them to the present.
~ Jeanette Winterson