Fishing Quotes - Page 19

• I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not do, wishing we were outside or simply elsewhere, wishing we were reading, thinking, making love, fishing, sleeping, or simply having time to figure out who the hell we are and what the hell we're doing.

  Derrick Jensen

  Reading, Sleep, Thinking

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “A Language Older Than Words”, p.109, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler only sees the inside. The angler only is brought close, face to face with the flower and bird and insect life of the rich riverbanks, the only part of the landscape where the hand of man has never interfered.

  Charles Kingsley

  Country, Flower, Men

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Prose Idylls: New and Old: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests. It's hard to overstate the destruction. Ninety percent of large fish, the ones we love - the tunas, the halibuts, the salmons, swordfish - they've collapsed.

  Dan Barber

  Motivation, Inspiration, Cutting

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• I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends.

  Scotty McCreery

  Boys, Keys, North Carolina

  "Scotty McCreery: Celebrity On Campus" by Emily Laurence, Slide 3, www.seventeen.com. August 14, 2013.

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• As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

  Izaak Walton

  Artist, Men, Lakes

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) 'Epistle to the Reader'

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• In fishing, golf and gardening, if you don't have a healthy tolerance for your own ineptitude, then it isn't for you.

  William Bernard Ziff, Jr.

  Golf, Healthy, Tolerance

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• I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Intuition, Hook, Cosmic

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• Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Lakes, Sea, Ideas

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• Fly fishing is not about catching the fish. It is about enjoying the water, the breeze, the fish swimming all around. If you catch one, good. If you don't...that is even better. That mean you come out and get to try all over again.

  Clare Vanderpool

  Mean, Swimming, Water

  Clare Vanderpool (2013). “Navigating Early”, p.175, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• My fishing hole is deader than...a dead thing that's dead.

  Tom Riley

  Holes

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• We do not know what is on the other side of the storm.

  Brian Francis

  Art Of War, Storm, Sides

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• Fishing: I don't really like it. I don't really like the expression on the fish's face.

  Karl Pilkington

  Expression, Faces, Fishes

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• Once a reporter stood in front of a fire as it consumed a house and then he turned to see the homeowners and their little son watching it burn. The reporter, fishing for a human interest angle, said to the boy, "Son, it looks like you don't have a home anymore." The little boy promptly answered, "Oh, yes, we have a home. We just don't have a house to put it in."

  Barbara Johnson

  Home, Son, Boys

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• I know that I can sing really loud. It's like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I've been trying to be more dynamic with my voice and not just singing on ten all of time out of terror.

  Neko Case

  Voice, Singing, Trying

  "Neko Case Surges Forward with 'Flood'". "Morning Edition" with Ashley Kahn, www.npr.org. March 28, 2006.

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• As for me, tough duty though it may be, I continue to do my part for the commercial recreation industry. Fishing, boating, tennis, golf, running, hunting, and all of this. Horseshoes. It's tough duty. Somebody has to do it, and I'm going to keep on.

  George H. W. Bush

  Running, Golf, Hunting

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• I don't believe in rock bottom. Rock bottom is like a fishing term.

  Charlie Sheen

  Believe, Rocks, Term

  "Watch Charlie Sheen's Entire Insane TMZ Poolside Interview". gawker.com. February 28, 2011.

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• For me, fishing and journalism touched the same places in my head. In comparison with that of poets, the fly fishers' and the journalists' experiences are probably pale flavors, but they carry nonetheless a hint of ambrosia.

  Howell Raines

  Hints, Flavor, Journalism

  Howell Raines (2006). “The One that Got Away: A Memoir”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• To have some parts flowing free again . . . with deer grazing on its banks . . . ducks and geese raising their young in the backwaters . . . eddies and twists and turns for canoeists . . . and fishing opportunities such as Lewis and Clark enjoyed . . . would be the finest possible tribute to the men of the Expedition, and a priceless gift for our children.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Children, Opportunity, Men

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• After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of being able to like such a stupid occupation.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Stupid, Doctors, Rivers

  Leo Tolstoy (1998). “Anna Karenina”, p.240, Oxford Paperbacks

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• The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

  Jim Harrison

  Inspirational, Travel, Lakes

  Jim Harrison (2007). “The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand”, p.91, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.

  Carl Safina

  Science, Oil, Vote

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• I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream. I always say getting inspiration is like fishing. If you're quiet and sitting there and you have the right bait, you're going to catch a fish eventually. Ideas are sort of like that. You never know when they're going to hit you.

  David Lynch

  Dream, Inspiration, Ideas

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• Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.

  Saint Basil

  Swans, Deep Water, Feet

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.131, CUA Press

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• When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Eye, Thinking

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• A thousand hills, but no birds in flight,
  Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks.
  A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man,
  Fishing alone in the cold river snow.

  Liu Zongyuan

  Lonely, Men, Rivers

  Liu Zongyuan, “River Snow”

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