Fishes Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• 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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• It is a strange paradox: Humans drown in the water, fish drown in the land.

  Javad Alizadeh

  Land, Water, Strange

  Humor & Caricature magazine, July 1995.

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• Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.

  Owen Feltham

  Faith, Water, Want

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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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• I don't believe in giving people money. In Sunday school [you learn] that if you teach a man to fish, you feed him for life; but you give him a fish, you feed him for a day.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Believe, School, Sunday

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• I would not be well-known if I had just used my gift to make money for me. The moment I started to teach others - you teach people to fish - I think that's why my book Rich Dad, Poor Dad became an international bestseller, and things like this.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dad, Book, Thinking

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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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• Fish are not the best authority on water.

  Jane Yolen

  Ignorance, Water, Unawareness

  Jane Yolen (2016). “White Jenna”, p.178, Open Road Media

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• Now, if we understand what unlucky persons are, we shall see that they are to be shunned, or that we are to consort with them only out of kindness or from sympathy, but without joining our interests with theirs; for they are persons who are not harmonious with the condition of things around them, and are as much at issue with life as a bird who should try to live in the water, or a fish to float in the air.

  James Vila Blake

  Kindness, Issues, Air

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• Throw a lucky man into water and he'll surface with a fish in his mouth.

  Julian Tuwim

  Men, Water, Lucky

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• caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a prophet's epiphanies.

  Barbara Hurd

  Nature, Adventure, Space

  Barbara Hurd (2005). “Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No pills, not even aspirin, and certainly no supplements ever enter my mouth - everything I need comes from my fish and vegetarian diet, which incorporates many different kinds of fruit and vegetables every week.

  David H. Murdock

  Vegetarian Diet, Vegetables, Pills

  "My Healthy, Weekly Shopping List" by David H. Murdock, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2011.

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• We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with Shooting Fish. Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.

  Dan Futterman

  Silly, Dumb, Shooting

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. May 13, 1998.

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• I'm a passionate, hardcore fisherman. Biggest fish I caught? A 200-pound tarpon.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Pounds, Passionate, Hardcore

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• The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.

  Horace

  Hook, Pits, Hawks

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• Work is my recreation,
  The play of faculty; a delight like that
  Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish
  In darting through the water,--Nothing more.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Work, Play, Water

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.88, Wildside Press LLC

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• I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish.
  [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]

  George Herbert

  Taken

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• It's no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.

  George Herbert

  Bows

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.329

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• O execrable son! so to aspire
  Above his brethren, to himself assuming
  Authority usurped, from God not given.
  He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl,
  Dominion absolute; that right we hold
  By his donation; but man over men
  He made not lord; such title to himself
  Reserving, human left from human free.

  John Milton

  Son, Men, Titles

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.365

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• Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future generations can experience the bliss of breathing clean crisp air, while fishing in the Adirondacks... and being able to eat the fish afterwards.

  Gloria Reuben

  Fishing, Breathing, Air

  "Women Around the World Want a Clean Energy Future" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2010.

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