Top 100 Like A Fish Quotes
#1. But my anger was a slippery thing, like a fish I was trying to keep hold of, and it wiggled out of my grasp.
Cynthia Hand
#2. A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Benjamin Franklin
#3. To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.
John C. Hawkes
#5. I can drink like a fish, or at least, someone born with fetal alcohol syndrome.
Anthony Jeselnik
#6. I left Sudan when I was 25 or 26 years old. If I had stayed, I would never have ended up being an entrepreneur. You can have the qualities, but if you don't have the environment, you just wither away. It's like a fish: take it out of water, it will not survive.
Mo Ibrahim
#7. What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not of the newest poor-John. A strange fish!
William Shakespeare
#8. I'm like a fish in a pool, turning quickly to avoid what challenges it. My only decision is whether to go right or left to sidestep confrontation.
Doug Cooper
#9. I love the water more than anything. I'm not very good at sunbathing - I get really bored. I love swimming and I love being like a fish and getting in the sea and just - I don't know, it feels right.
Beth Orton
#11. 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
#12. When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
Caitriona Balfe
#13. Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.
Tommy Douglas
#14. The Korean word for tree rose in his mind, surprising him, like a fish breaking the surface of a calm pond.
Sun Yung Shin
#15. I grew up in Southern California, and I particularly did not fit in. I always felt like a fish out of water in my hometown because everyone was very happy, and I was thinking about death and anxiety, and not many other people around me seemed to be thinking about that.
Rachel Bloom
#16. I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.
Gordon Ramsay
#17. It was beautiful in a harsh I'm-going-to-gut-you-like-a-fish kind of way.
Rick Riordan
#18. I never really felt at home with that - the headbands, the roses, the feet, the peace sign, all that bollocks. That wasn't me at all; I felt like a fish totally out of water during the mid-'60s thing.
Jeff Beck
#19. I express through my music my philosophy, my feelings, my passion, my dreams, my fears, my hopes, my wishes and my expectations. Without music, I would be mute, like a fish without water, like a bird without wings like a human being without air.
Ricardo Derose
#20. Let an idea swim to the surface like a fish in a pool ... let the mind drift to the vision.
Dick Francis
#21. Once or twice she'd looked back at him and seen such a look of compassion in his brown eyes it had made her heart flop around like a fish on dry land.
Melanie Dickerson
#22. Where is God? Where can I find him? we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean
Ted Dekker
#23. Love is the language of life and all others are transient epi-phenomena. Like a fish, we are swimming in the ocean of love. We are so busy seeking love that we don't realize we are swimming in love.
Debasish Mridha
#24. We live in an ocean of words, but like a fish in water we are often not aware of it.
Stuart Chase
#25. I know I must look like a fish, standing there with my mouth gaping open, but I'm
Lauren Oliver
#26. The hermit Anthony once told me that a monk is like a fish: take him out of his element and he dies. Silence is his element. In silence you can trade this shoddy world for Heaven.
Gillian Bradshaw
#28. How funny to see the foreigner in a farmer's work hat, like a fish that has put on clothes. Around
Amy Tan
#29. The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.
Dean Kamen
#30. Try not to have any break in chanting the mantra even for a moment. Continue repeating the mantra while engaged in any task. Chanting in the mind may not always be possible at first, so in the beginning, practice japa by moving the lips incessantly-like a fish drinking water.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#31. A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Gloria Steinem
#32. A human being trying to attract more love is like a fish trying to attract more water.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#33. He was trying not to grin, but it was exceedingly difficult with Lady Penwood gasping like a fish on land.
Julia Quinn
#34. Europe needs a boundary like a fish needs a bicycle.
Yanko Tsvetkov
#35. God was someone I wound up turning over and over in my mind each night ... Was He punishing me with this meal or was He rewarding me? Did He actively watch me or take me for granted like a fish you don't notice until it's floating on the surface of the tank?
David Sedaris
#37. Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes
Andrew Heller
#38. We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.
Kobe Bryant
#39. Marxism exists in nineteenth-century thought like a fish in water: that is, it is unable to breathe anywhere else.
FOUCAULT MICHEL
#40. A wish is a dish that's a lot like a fish: Once it's been eaten it's harder to throw back. - Mr. Rakshasas
P.B. Kerr
#41. Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.
Owen Feltham
#42. A woman needs a strong man to take care of her like a fish needs a bicycle.
John Green
#43. I've always wanted to be able to hold my breath for like, ever, and swim in the water like a fish.
Carlos Pena Jr.
#44. Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.
Amor Towles
#45. with a face like a fish pressed to glass; eyes so large they appear distorted. "Is
Lauren Oliver
#46. I need NOW's defense like a fish needs a bicycle. I don't want them to defend me.
Sarah Palin
#47. Like a fish needs a bicycle. A goldfish riding a bicycle underwater. I need a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
Irina Dunn
#48. I will hear a noise, like a fish jumping, and when I look I'll see Lizzy coming to the surface, shaking off her pink scales, finding her new arms to do the breaststroke to shore.
Jane Hamilton
#49. He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
John Lennon
#50. Scotch needs water like a fish needs a bicycle.
W.C. Fields
#51. Atheists who keep asking for evidence of God's existence are like a fish in the ocean wanting evidence of water.
Ray Comfort
#52. Having a mixed background and feeling a little bit like a fish out of water in most places can be a benefit.
Viggo Mortensen
#53. I bet Aaron swims the fastest," Benny said, squeezing my hand. "He's like a fish.
Anna Carey
#54. The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leathery covers. Wine was flowing through the water pipes. You had caught my leaping heart in your hands like a fish.
Francesca Lia Block
#55. It's dangerous to tell the truth, truth without power is always dangerous. And we should fight! Freedom's not an idea, it's a passion! If you haven't got it you fight like a fish out of water fighting for air!
Edward Bond
#56. Truthfully, I just try to get as much rest and drink water like a fish every day. If I don't get enough rest, exercise and water to keep my body healthy, then the voice begins to suffer and it can't repair overnight from the previous day's work.
Roger Craig Smith
#57. Greatness exists like an ocean within you. Why do you want to act like a fish out of water, wriggling on the sand under the scorching sun? Look! The water is just one millimeter away! Jump in!
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
#58. If you're wearing smoky eye makeup, a little beige or gold pencil on the inner eye corners will open up the area, but you only want to do it if the shadow is really dark. Otherwise, light pencil makes your eyes look too far apart, like a fish.
Gisele Bundchen
#59. A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle.
Arthur Bloch
#60. I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.
Thomas Shadwell
#61. A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
I really hate this expression. I bet fish would totally want bicycles.
Meg Cabot
#62. What she didn't display, I noticed, was a boxful of swimming medals.
"Holy crap," I said, when she set them on the desk. "You're like a fish."
"Oh. Um. Well, I swim, you see."
I saw.
Maureen Johnson
#63. If you try to grasp Zen in movement, it goes into stillness. If you try to grasp Zen in stillness, it goes into movement. It is like a fish hidden in a spring, drumming up waves and dancing independently.
Linji Yixuan
#64. I was under the stars, like a fish is under water.
Shannon Hale
#65. You're like a fish. You want to evolve, to climb onto the land, but the ocean won't let go of you so easily. The currents of your past would sooner destroy you than let you go free.
Michael Goorjian
#66. Beauty without grace is like a fish far displaced from the water and looking at this kind of beauty is like watching that fish die right there on the cement in front of you.
C. JoyBell C.
#67. Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish
Muhammad Ali
#68. Younger generations in particular, who have spent a great deal of time in information environments since they were small children, would feel like a fish out of water if they were shut out of the global stream of information.
Hubert Burda
#70. When Dick was killed last week he looked like that, Flapping along the fire-step like a fish, After the blazing crump had knocked him flat ... . How many dead? As many as ever you wish. Don't count 'em; they're too many. Who'll buy my nice fresh corpses, two a penny?
Siegfried Sassoon
#71. Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally free.
Michel Ocelot
#72. During my first several days there I really did feel like a fish out of water. After years of following a military dress code I wasn't even sure what to wear. The one place I felt like I fit in was out on a boat and, fortunately, trials for the freshman sailing team began right away.
Ted Turner
#73. You know in this moment that Gabriel is at your mercy, you can do what you want, he is completely yours and with the knowledge of that something goes,you can feel it slip from you like a fish through the net.
Nikki Gemmell
#74. We are a very close family, and I love them very much, but I'm definitely the odd one out. I live a completely different kind of life style. I always was different. I felt like a fish out of water; I really never knew who I was.
Janet McTeer
#75. I didn't have boyfriends until my late teens. I was at a girls' boarding school, and my stepfather disapproved of me going out with anybody. I never really came across any boys. When I did, one of them asked me out, and I was petrified. I felt like a fish out of water, and it was excruciating.
Pattie Boyd
#76. The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capitol where some of the very meanest people on earth spend their days cleaning democracy like a fish.
Matt Taibbi
#77. Because ka was like a fish, ka was like a sand dune, ka was like a wheel that didn't want to stop but only to roll on and on, crushing whatever might happen to be in its path. A wheel of many spokes.
Stephen King
#78. I keep fit, I work out, I eat pretty damn well, I don't drink like a fish, and all of those things are tempered with a holistic mind-set that you need to damn well respect the vehicle that you're walking around in.
Mick Fleetwood
#79. Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes.
Jon Crosby
#80. That sounded good," Daisy said with surprise.
"It sounded like a fish vomiting," Sarah said into the piano.
"A charming image," Honoria remarked.
"I don't think fish do vomit," Daisy remarked, "and if they did, I
don't think it would sound like -
Julia Quinn
#81. If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam's circle.
Gayle Forman
#82. Uncle Pumblechook: a large hard-breathing middle-aged slow man, with a mouth like a fish, dull staring eyes, and sandy hair standing upright on his head, so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked, and had that moment come to.
Charles Dickens
#83. If you drink like a fish, don't drive: swim.
Joe E. Lewis
#84. Save it fucker. I'm gonna slit you open and gut you like a fish and pull out your insides. I'm going to show you the black stuff inside your belly, and then I'm gonna make you eat it.
Brian Keene
#86. Pathetic, huh?" He learned that word
from me.
"Yeah. It's like the opposite of a fish,
right?
Hannah Moskowitz
#87. Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so much salt. Deer apparently ascend bodily into heaven; the brightest oriole fades into leaves.
Annie Dillard
#88. The term "flying saucer" seems to have been coined by accident. Arnold told reporters that the nine objects he saw were flat and shiny like a pie pan and that they looked like a little fish flipping in the sun.
Don Lincoln
#89. But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people - men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.
Amy Tan
#90. I like to fish. Fishing is always a way of relaxing.
Tom Felton
#91. Cincinnati is perfect for me. I've met a lot of good people there who like to fish.
Adam Dunn
#92. Like my grandmother he kept secrets the way other people kept fish. They were a hobby, a fascination, his underwater collection of the rare and the strange. Occasionally something would float up to the surface, unexpected, unexplained
Jeanette Winterson
#94. Fishtale River Guides are personable and very knowledgeable. I like a guide who'll talk to me and explain what's going on. They work hard to help me catch my fish. I fish with them at least twice a year.
Chuck Austen
#95. Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good for something.
Dan Futterman
#96. I would love to slip into the skin of a fish and know what it's like to be one. They have senses that I can only dream about. They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
Sylvia Earle
#97. Fish farming, even with conventional techniques, changes fish within a few generations from an animal like a wild buffalo or a wildebeest to the equivalent of a domestic cow.
Charles Clover
#98. I ignore people who need me and latch on to people who don't. I dive into every other world except my own just because I want something more glamorous than my real life. I do destructive shit so a stupid hypocritical fish will like me.
I fall for fish instead of girls.
Hannah Moskowitz
#99. I think about how fragile we are here - like fish in a glass bowl with darkness pressing in on every side.
Carrie Ryan
#100. It is like trying to describe the ocean to a fish in a pond. It has no concept of what it is.
Brett Jones
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