For Minnows Quotes

#1. We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows

Joseph Campbell

#2. It was becoming more and more clear that if the asteroids were the schools of minnows swimming among the pod of whales, then Pluto and the Kuiper belt objects were simply a previously overlooked collection of sardines swimming in a faraway sea.

Mike Brown

#3. Freedom for the pike is death for the minnows.

R. H. Tawney

#4. Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'?

William Shakespeare

#5. There is too much singing and dancing, such lightness as loosens the restraints of virtue,' she complained, her white curls quivering. 'When I was young we held to the courtly ways, but nowadays the world is running all to ruin.

Lisa Klein

#6. Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love.

Theodore Roethke

#7. Within a few weeks of coming back from filming 'Lemonade Mouth,' I got these scripts, and 'Terra Nova' was the one that stuck out. I was like, 'Oh my gosh'.

Naomi Scott

#8. I was thinking the other day that his life reminds me of throwing a piece of bread into a stream and watching a whole flock of little minnows come up and start nibbling at it.

Eloisa James

#9. I didn't grow up playing video games. I grew up catching crawdads in the creek and minnows and lizards and snakes.

Blake Shelton

#10. A silence reigns upon the air, Upon the pansies by the shore, Upon the violets, pale and fair, Upon the willow, bending o'er; The reeds and lilies silent grow, The dark green waters silent sleep, Save when the summer breezes blow, Or silvery minnows leap.

George Arnold

#11. Too bad we don't have a flashlight."
"Thanks for stating the obvious, Mr. Thomas," Minho replied.

James Dashner

#12. She was never so petty. She did not dabble with minnows at the surface when there were thirty-pound salmon swimming deeper down.

Elizabeth Wein

#13. As you consider the next question, please assume that Steve was selected at random from a representative sample:

Daniel Kahneman

#14. There is so much,I thought,just under the surface. So many memories, darting like silvery minnows in a shallow stream.

S.J. Watson

#15. Every personal existence was upheld by a secret.

Anton Chekhov

#16. If God lets me live, I'll achieve more than Mother ever did, I'll make my voice heard, I'll go out into the world and work for mankind!

Anne Frank

#17. Questions swirled in my brain like terrified bait minnows in a bucket.

Julian May

#18. Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.

Dr. Seuss

#19. Do you know how hard it is to diet with a name like Cookie?" "That's so weird." I stared off into space, marveling at the similarities of our situation. "It's hard to diet with a name like Charley, too

Darynda Jones

#20. To sweeten the hours we share scandals from the city, how curators removed an elephant's heart from the museum because it began beating when anyone in love looked at it, how the coroner found minnows swimming in a drowned girl's lungs.

Traci Brimhall

#21. A stimulus is a stimulus. The body doesn't give a damn about the meaning of the stimulus. Whether minnows or communion, the sebaceous glands stand up erect.

Thomas Mann

#22. When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity, you are placed under unprecedented control.

William Safire

#23. In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.

Henrik Ibsen

#24. Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.

P.T. Barnum

#25. Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more or less, a slight variation in the composition of air, the precise suitability of food, makes all the difference between health and sickness; between life and death.

Robert Stawell Ball

#26. The person who feels secure, loved, safe and happy inside will have a secure, safe and happy life. Your inner integrity will be matched by those around you.

Hina Hashmi

#27. Fashion has a reason to be, because in fashion you can find new kinds of expression about human beings. It's my way to communicate.

Ann Demeulemeester

#28. What are minnows but brief flashes? And what are thoughts? And how do you capture a brief flash, even for a second?

Dinty W. Moore