Fishing Quotes - Page 13

• Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

  Thomas McGuane

  Teaching, Sea, Rivers

  Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.15, Vintage

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• Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

  Jim Harrison

  Horror, Hostage, Making A Living

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• Never retire! Do what you do and keep doing it. But don't do it on Friday. Take Friday off. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, go fishing...Then Monday to Thursday, do what you've been doing all your life. My point is: Live full and don't retreat.

  Mel Brooks

  Friday, Monday, Sunday

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• Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Food, Lakes, Sea

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• If Satch (Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series time.

  Dizzy Dean

  Team, July, World

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• Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Life, Rivers, Lakes

  D.T. Suzuki (2007). “An Introduction to Zen Buddhism”, p.49, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Whether it was hunting, fishing, or playing sports, my children were going to grow up outside. They weren't going to be sitting on the couch inside. At least they didn't grow up to be nerds.

  Phil Robertson

  Sports, Children, Growing Up

  Phil Robertson (2013). “Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• The only reason I ever played in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Hunters, Firsts

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• We've got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farming, loves gays and we hate him!

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Hate, Gay, Cowboy

  "Alec Baldwin Calls Hank Williams Jr. a 'Senile, Racist Coot'" by Seth Abramovitch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.

  Brandi Carlile

  Coffee, Needs, Whiskey

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• People never hurt others in moments of personal strength and bravery, when they are feeling good about themselves, when they are strong and confident. If we spent all of our waking moments in that place, then fighting for social justice would be redundant; we would simply have social justice and be done with it, and we could all go swimming, or fishing, or bowling, or dancing, or whatever people do. But it is because we spend so much of our time in that other place, that place of diminished capacity, of flagging energy, or wavering and somewhat flaccid commitment, that we have to be careful.

  Tim Wise

  Strong, Hurt, Commitment

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• In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.

  Norman Maclean

  Lines, Our Family, Clear

  "A River Runs Through It" (1976)

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• All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.

  Norman Maclean

  Art, Grace, Trout

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.4, University of Chicago Press

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• The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Marine, Lakes, Sea

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• A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Dream, Dancing, Lines

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• Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Born, Angling

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 1

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• I've got 21 years of experience now fishing professionally, and over that time I've learned a lot about how the bass react. A lot of people think there's a lot of luck in fishing, and there really isn't.

  Kevin VanDam

  Thinking, Years, People

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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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• What is the politically correct term for 'retarded'?""I think the words you're fishing for are 'mentally disabled.' And no. I'm not mentally disabled.

  Rachel Gibson

  Thinking, Retarded, Term

  Rachel Gibson (2010). “Nothing But Trouble”, p.13, Harper Collins

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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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• 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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• So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air.

  Rex Hunt

  Lakes, Air, Sea

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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