Fishes Quotes - Page 23

• You see, in the image of Aquarius, it's a man who pours water into the fish. Now the fish is the unconscious. It is not enough just to have it. We have to actively turn towards it and support it so that it then helps us.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Men, Aquarius, Water

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• In the case of my second film The Fish Child (El Niño Pez), I had written the novel about 5 years before I made into a film. In the case of The German Doctor I had published the novel a year before I started writing the script, I even had another project to shoot. But I had this idea of the powerful cinematic language from the novel that I couldn't let go of.

  Lucia Puenzo

  Letting Go, Children, Powerful

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not before you have read Thomas Mann in any case. Learn by copying, sentence by sentence some of the masters. Copy Coetzee's or Sebald's sentences and see what happens to your story. Consider creative non-fiction if you want to stay in South Africa. It might be the way to go. Never neglect back and hamstring exercises, otherwise you won't be able to write your novel. One needs one's buttocks to think.

  Marlene van Niekerk

  Writing, Exercise, Thinking

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• Could there be a more hilarious sad sack than Duncan Leland, whose trials and tribulations, so wittily conveyed, had me laughing (and wincing) from the first page? Hart's Maine landscape is rich with eccentric characters, dried fish, and other surprising and original treasures. While Duncan sinks, the reader will float on a cloud nine of classy entertainment.

  Mameve Medwed

  Character, Clouds, Laughing

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• I am a pisces, a fish out of water, searching for a way back home.

  James Kidd

  Home, Water, Way

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• Increasingly, we will be faced with a choice: whether to keep the oceans for wild fish or farmed fish. Farming domesticated species in close proximity with wild fish will mean that domesticated fish always win. Nobody in the world of policy appears to be asking what is best for society, wild fish or farmed fish. And what sort of farmed fish, anyway? Were this question to be asked, and answered honestly, we might find that our interests lay in prioritizing wild fish and making their ecosystems more productive by leaving them alone enough of the time.

  Charles Clover

  Ocean, Mean, Winning

  Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.313, Univ of California Press

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• Big fish eats small fish; oceans need revolution! Big man beats little man; world needs revolution! Big galaxies swallow little galaxies; universe needs revolution! Anything which is not ethical needs a strong revolution!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Strong, Ocean, Men

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• Fisherman deceives the fish with bait; this action makes the fisherman dishonest! For a fisherman to be honest, he must not put any bait to his fishhook! He who dares to be ideally honest, let him know how hard it is to be such an honest!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Bait, Action, Honest

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• Domesticated salmon, after several generations, are fat, listless things that are good at putting on weight, not swimming up fast-moving rivers. When they get into a river and breed with wild fish, they can damage the wild fish's prospects of surviving to reproduce.

  Charles Clover

  Moving, Swimming, Rivers

  Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.312, Univ of California Press

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• Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Fishing, Progress

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.367, Modern Library

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• If a fish feels sad when a fisherman's boat is sinking, and that fish owns a priceless treasure: The compassion! Have compassion, even for your enemies!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Compassion, Enemy, Treasure

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• If you have a guru, leave him; if you don't have, get one. In other words, keep changing your gurus! Ocean's wisdom comes from knowing many ships and many fishes, many storms and many waves!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ocean, Knowing, Storm

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• Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Book, Frying Pans, Holy

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• The fish trap exists because of the fish: once you have gotten the meanings, you can forget the words.

  Zhuangzi

  Forget, Traps

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• ... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores.

  Mary Oliver

  Running, Thinking, Rivers

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I need NOW's defense like a fish needs a bicycle. I don't want them to defend me.

  Sarah Palin

  Needs, Defense, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Let an idea swim to the surface like a fish in a pool...let the mind drift to the vision.

  Dick Francis

  Ideas, Swim, Mind

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• A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it.

  Oliver Lodge

  Mean, Water, Existence

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• I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.

  Kabir

  Reality, Dwelling, Water

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• You shall find books and sermons everywhere, in the land and in the sea, in the earth and in the skies, and you shall learn from every living beast, and bird, and fish, and insect, and from every useful or useless plant that springs from the ground.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spring, Book, Sea

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 34: Sermons 2001-2061”, p.400, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• We don't survive without plants and animals because we rely on them, we rely on plants to put oxygen into the atmosphere, we rely on ... fish and crops and cows to eat.

  Naomi Oreskes

  Animal, Oxygen, Atmosphere

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• When you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium, you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there. Whereas horror films and thrillers are designed to put the audience into that box, into that aquarium.

  James Wan

  Swimming, Aquariums, Action

  Source: collider.com

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• Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.

  Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

  Fishing, Imagination, Brain

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• How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?

  John Maynard Keynes

  Quality, Advancement, Mud

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Two, Political, Pelicans

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