Top 28 Haig Brown Quotes
#1. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Theatrical Trailer (Courtesy of Focus
John Le Carre
#2. Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.
Roderick Haig-Brown
#3. There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.
Roderick Haig-Brown
#4. Man is mortal, and as the professor so rightly said mortality can come so suddenly
Mikhail Bulgakov
#5. Ideally, love is unconditional; practically, it is more often the opposite.
T.F. Hodge
#6. A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream among the rocks
Roderick Haig-Brown
#7. A fisherman is always hopeful
nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.
Roderick Haig-Brown
#8. This was the sort of situation that called for a certain amount of terror.
Seanan McGuire
#9. To this day I would rather see a fish, creep up to him and watch his rise to my fly than catch half a dozen fish unseen until they take.
Roderick Haig-Brown
#10. Anglers ... exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.
Roderick Haig-Brown
#11. I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except that we like it and it makes us think and feel.
Roderick Haig-Brown
#12. It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.
James M. Barrie
#13. I've basically got an album full of singles.
Coolio
#15. That is the fundamental question; how to trust that she has a heart and that she can, little by little, receive love, be transformed by love, and then give love.
Jean Vanier
#16. I remember the good evenings I have fished, even the ones that realised material hopes not by the fish that came to the fly, but by the colour and movement of the water and sky, by the sounds and scents and gentle stirrings that were all about me.
Roderick Haig-Brown
#17. What I tend to tell my students is, "When you look in the mirror and see a smart, angry girl who wants to be free, you're seeing a paradigm that Kathy [Acker] helped bring into the recognizable."
Sarah Schulman
#18. I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's far more pressure to make a mark, so the temptation is to make adventure television or personality shows. I hope the more didactic approach won't be lost.
David Attenborough
#19. I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water ... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.
Roderick Haig-Brown
#20. Once an affair is over, the cheaters need to agree not to see each other anymore in order to reestablish trust with their spouses.
Emily Yoffe
#21. Hanael, the Angel of December, will help us enjoy the balance of giving and receiving in many different ways: working and relaxing, giving our support to others and allowing ourselves to receive it in our own lives, having run with friends and having a quiet time alone to replenish our energy.
Margaret Neylon
#22. Wherever we go in the world we find other men speaking the same language, planning the same plans, dreaming the same dreams. And one of the big four - brownie, or brookie, cutthroat or rainbow - is the cause of it all
Roderick Haig-Brown
#23. What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.
William J.H. Boetcker
#24. I really like working with drummers, I like being able to bounce ideas off drummers.
Thighpaulsandra
#26. A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart
Roderick Haig-Brown
#27. Unfortunately, diet is 75 or 80 percent of trying to get in shape, so you do have to try to cut the carbs. The diet's a huge part! I'm from Kansas, so I love ranch dressing and McDonald's. When I'm working, I have to stay away from all that!
Colton Haynes
#28. I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.
Roderick Haig-Brown
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