Fishes Quotes - Page 12

• Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Bait

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.94

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• It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.

  Izaak Walton

  Queens, Food, Men

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (2014). “The Compleat Angler”, p.151, OUP Oxford

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• The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people eat it with egg sauce.

  Ogden Nash

  Food, Loss, Eggs

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• The biggest danger we face is overfishing. We literally could fish out our oceans, some scientists believe, in the next 40, 50, 60 years. We are fishing out the top of the food chain, and it's pretty crucial because about 200 million people depend on fish and fishing for their livelihood, and about a billion people, mostly in poorer countries, depend on fish for their protein. So this is a big problem. Good news is, it's fixable.

  Ted Danson

  Country, Believe, Ocean

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Fish must swim thrice--once is the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.

  John Ray

  Wine, Water, Swim

  John Ray (1818). “A compleat collection of English proverbs. To which is added, A collection of English words not generally used. Repr. verbatim from the ed. of 1768”, p.23

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• I love my daughter. She and I have shared my body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since.

  Amy Tan

  Daughter, Swimming, Mind

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.242, Penguin

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• my thoughts are like quick little fish that swim out of my grasp.

  Miriam Makeba

  Swim, Littles, My Thoughts

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• A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Men, May, Sake

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• Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.

  Louise Erdrich

  Time, Destiny, Two

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• I love meetings with suits. I live for meetings with suits. I love them because I know they had a really boring week and I walk in there with my orange velvet leggings and drop popcorn in my cleavage and then fish it out and eat it. I like that. I know I'm entertaining them and I know that they know.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Intelligent, Orange, Levels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fish have water, the bushmen of the Kalahari have sand, and Houstonians have interior décor.

  Simon Hoggart

  Texas, Water, Sand

  Simon Hoggart (1990). “America: A User's Guide”, HarperCollins

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• the relationship between the two men was something of a miracle in itself. It was a cordiality based, apparently, on complete non-comprehension cemented by a deep mutual respect for the utterly unknown. No two men saw less eye to eye and the result was unexpected harmony, as if a dog and a fish had mysteriously become friends and were proud each of the other's remarkable dissimilarity to himself.

  Margery Allingham

  Dog, Eye, Men

  Margery Allingham (2015). “The Tiger in the Smoke”, p.26, Ipso Books

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• I don't care if I'm a fish, I still want a bicycle.

  Lorrie Moore

  Care, Want, Stills

  Lorrie Moore (2010). “The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore”, p.660, Faber & Faber

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• They have poisoned the Thames and killed the fish in the river. A little further development of the same wisdom and science will complete the poisoning of the air, and kill the dwellers on the banks. I almost think it is the destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Science, Destiny, Thinking

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• You are immortal; you exist for billions of years in different manifestations, because you are Life, and Life cannot die. You are in the trees, the butterflies, the fish, the air, the moon, the sun. Wherever you go, you are there, waiting for yourself.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Life, Butterfly, Moon

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• We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.

  Denise Scott Brown

  Analysis, Architecture, Sociology

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• But it's also true that my memory is a card shark, reshuffling the deck to hide what I fear to know, unable to keep from fingering the ace at the bottom of the deck even when I'm doing nothing more than playing Fish in the daylight with children.

  Lorene Cary

  Memories, Children, Sharks

  Lorene Cary (2010). “Black Ice”, p.127, Vintage

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• although I have no fish, / I do not want any frog; / Or any elderberries either, / Instead of a bunch of grapes: / Although I have no love, / I do not want anything else, / Whether Love is gracious to me or hostile.

  Hadewijch

  Love Is, Desire, Want

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.335, Paulist Press

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• Beautiful soup! Who cares for fish, game or any other dish? Who would not give all else for two pennyworth of beautiful soup?

  Lewis Carroll

  Beautiful, Games, Two

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass”, p.82, Bibliolis Books

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• I picked ducks in a tub in my dorm room. I'd hang deer in the doorway between the bedroom and the little living room in our little apartment there, and I'd skin my deer, and all the guts would go in the tub, and I'd sneak them out so my fellow students on both sides wouldn't see all that, you know. I'd clean fish up there and all.

  Phil Robertson

  Ducks, Skins, Sides

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• Fish have got to swim. Birds have got to fly, and Clintons have to run for office. It's what they do. It's a metabolic urge. That's all they've done their entire life is borrow money from rich people to seek public office.

  George Will

  Running, People, Office

  "Dan Pfeiffer previews State of the Union, 2014 agenda; Sen. Mitch McConnell on GOP efforts to retake the Senate". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2014.

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• Some people are swimmers and they're born to swim. They're like fish in the water. I will definitely say it's someplace that I feel at home.

  Christine Swanson

  Home, People, Water

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The good thing about being gay was always that you didn't have a wedding. People would say, "He's gay, but at least he didn't make us go to his wedding. He didn't make us fly across the country. He didn't make us choose between the fish and the beef."

  David Sedaris

  Country, Gay, People

  "David Sedaris on 'Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls'". Interview with Kevin Nance, articles.chicagotribune.com. April 21, 2013.

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• Writing for the theater is a whole different can of fish. The music now has the responsibility of so many things. The plot could be giving you different views of the character; the emotional highlights of a moment.

  Frank Wildhorn

  Responsibility, Writing, Character

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2004.

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• No loose fish enters our quiet bay.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Quiet, Discrimination, Bigotry

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