Fish Bowl Quotes

#1. He missed you
like a fish in a bowl
misses the open sea.

Catherynne M Valente

#2. Cats can derive their nutrition from the air they breathe until you get the message that the Fish Fin Buffet you put in their bowl three days ago will never be acceptable.

Kathy Young

#3. Every moment is a moment of choice-to feel powerless or powerful.

Diana Loomans

#4. The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fish bowl and tells you their point of view ... The hedge funds and portfolio managers have a right to do this ... We've muted the analysts and their presence in the system.

Mario Gabelli

#5. His chest thumps. It happens more and more these days. He has to sort of struggle for a mouthful of air, like a fish in an overturned bowl.

Fredrik Backman

#6. Go to a graduation party, put out a fish bowl, and you have a gold record.

Isaac Slade

#7. I think about how fragile we are here - like fish in a glass bowl with darkness pressing in on every side.

Carrie Ryan

#8. You thought perhaps you would drink it away, the plague? Was that the plan?"

"I thought perhaps I'd try to die drunk."

"Such ambition. And this from a dragon-slayer.

Richard K. Morgan

#9. No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time.

Martha Graham

#10. Do me a favor, guys. Don't drink so much that you become the guy that goes into the bathroom and moans while taking a leak. See, the women in the room, they might not know what we're talking about; every dude knows.

Christian Finnegan

#11. Well, the gold fish in the bowl lay upside down bloating
Full in the sky and the plains were bleached white with skeletons
Various species grouped together according
To their past beliefs
The only way they ever all got together was
Not in love but shameful grief

Don Van Vliet

#12. A fish in a bowl thinks to know it all, for it has never seen the ocean.

Daniel Andersson

#13. Jerry Falwell says that abortion and homosexuality are sins. Oh yeah? Well, so is gluttony, Jerry. So maybe you should think about dropping 50 pounds.

Dennis Miller

#14. My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.

Martin Freeman

#15. Be the best loved who have contributed most to

Albert Einstein

#16. Here is a fish swimming around comfortably and (he thinks) unobtrusively, flicking here and there amongst the kelp and the plankton. Draw away for the long view and there's the kicker: It's a goldfish bowl.

Stephen King

#17. Its upper part is not bright, and its lower part is not obscure.

Lao-Tzu

#18. The neurological condition of echopraxia is to autonomy as blindsight is to consciousness.

Peter Watts

#19. The Troll was well over seven feet tall, and smelled of body odour and Germolene.

Andrew Barrett

#20. Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long.

Vince Poscente

#21. To give away flowers you have to literally cut off their life supply: 'Here you go, it's pretty now but it's rapidly dying and will decompose before your eyes.' It's like giving someone a pet fish without the bowl.

Jules Cassard

#22. We are fish in a bowl, dear.

Erin Morgenstern

#23. If you shatter the fish bowl so that everything is possible you don't have freedom you have paralysis. Everybody needs a fishbowl.

Barry Schwartz

#24. I tell people all the time that I was born and raised in Ronald Reagan's America.

Marco Rubio

#25. One of the good things about being a woman is that my level of testosterone poisoning is lower than most men's.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#26. We forget that the rest of live can be just as dangerous. I think about how fragile we are here
like fish in a glass bowl with the darkness pressing in on every side.

Carrie Ryan

#27. A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.

Joseph Lancaster

#28. Look not just at the Roman campagna, the pageantry of Venice, and the proud expression of Charles I astride his horse, but also have a look at the bowl on the sideboard, the dead fish in your kitchen, and the crusty bread loaves in the hall.

Alain De Botton

#29. I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

Jonathan Swift