Fishing Quotes - Page 14

• We'd like to make it [bucky fiber] in a continuous fiber, roll it on a drum, and go fishing with it.

  Richard Smalley

  Fiber, Chemistry

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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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• 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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• Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale... from hell's heart I stab at thee.

  Herman Melville

  Heart, Whales, Sea

  Moby Dick ch. 135 (1851)

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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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• 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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• I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it.

  Perry Como

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.

  David Lynch

  Ideas, Waiting, Desire

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• Fish sticks and beef stew that millions of children love to hate.

  Marian Burros

  Children, Hate, Beef

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• One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing

  Norman Maclean

  World, Fly Fishing, Great Things

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.18, University of Chicago Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.

  John Ford

  War, Taken, Drunk

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

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• There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon

  Jack Nicklaus

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• I grew up in a small, strictly Catholic fishing village - the people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Attitude, People, Catholic

  "Suffer little children? Give me a break" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2008.

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• I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.293, Diderot Publishing

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• Peitaho Heavy rains fall on Yuyen, the northland kingdom of swallows. White pages of rain envelop the sky, and fishing boats off the Island of the Emperor Chin disappear on the ocean. Which way have they gone? More than a thousand years ago the mighty emperor Tsao Tsao cracked his whip and drove his army against the Tartars. He left us a poem: "Let us move east to the Stone Mountains." Today we still shiver in the autumn gale, in desolate winds, yet another man is in the world.

  Mao Zedong

  Rain, Ocean, Moving

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