Little Fish Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The lesson of the Impressionists is that there are times and places where it is better to be a Big Fish in a Little Pond than a Little Fish in a Big Pond, where the apparent disadvantage of being an outsider in a marginal world turns out not to be a disadvantage at all.

Malcolm Gladwell

#3. They'll want to kill the crazies first. Big fish eat little fish -- always have, always will.

Allan Dare Pearce

#4. I have human friends, obviously. But everything's easier with a cat. He wants a little fish soup in a saucer and the occasional scratch on the head. I want the illusion that an animal bred to trade affection for food can understand the inquietudes of my soul.

Anthony Marra

#5. Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood ... and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

Vernor Vinge

#6. There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero.

Henry Fielding

#7. If little fish get eaten by bigger fish, and bigger fish get eaten by bigger fish ... what happens when there are no little fish? The world's populations of little fish are being harvested to make catfood!? This nonsense has to stop. Feed a fish a cat a day!

Tony Bishop

#8. Petite and with a rounded figure exaggerated by her tight dress, she was a beautiful mermaid swimming through the crowded street, and Gil felt like a petrified little fish in front of a shark. Maybe

Mala Spina

#9. 'Little Fish' has reminded me why I fell in love with acting in the first place.

Martin Henderson

#10. Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#11. Whatever sentence I extract whole and entire from this cauldron is only a string of six little fish that let themselves be caught while a million others leap and sizzle, making the cauldron bubble like boiling silver, and slip through my fingers.

Virginia Woolf

#12. The best advice I ever got was from Lee Iacocca ... It was get into a business where you can be a big fish, not the little fish. Get into a business where you can be a change agent, where you can make a difference.

Marcus Lemonis

#13. My thoughts are like quick little fish that swim out of my grasp.

Miriam Makeba

#14. I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.

Eugene Field

#15. Those little fish and the lobster as well are automatic survival mechanisms, like politicians. They

Hovav Heth

#16. Stones Come And Go, The Big Fish Eat The Little Fish And I Keep On Battling.

Ahmed Abdulrahman

#17. One man is proud when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a net, and another when he has taken wild boars, and another when he has taken bears ... Are these not robbers?

Marcus Aurelius

#18. His lips met mine and just like the stupid little fish that I was, I sank my teeth right into the hook.

Jettie Woodruff

#19. The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)

George R R Martin

#20. To me nature is ... spiders and bugs, and big fish eating little fish, and plants eating plans, and animals eating ... It's like an enormous restaurant, that's the way I see it.

Woody Allen

#21. A nothing day full of wild beauty ... Little fish stream by, a river in water.

James Schuyler

#22. It's very rare you get a director who's that invested in the actors. So yeah, when 'Little Fish' came around, there wasn't much negotiation!

Martin Henderson

#23. What is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities - the getting of food, clothing and shelter? Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net of there's so little fish to catch?

Yann Martel

#24. Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful.

David Lynch

#25. The cute little fish had big eyes and a rounded body with black polka dots and fins on either side of him that fluttered like hummingbird wings.
"He's staring at me."
"He knows a beautiful thing when he sees it.

Robin Bielman

#26. Govern large countries
like you cook little fish.

Lao-Tzu

#27. He didn't remember because he'd seen thousands of little fish hundreds of times, and because it didn't mean to him what it had to me.

Melissa Bank

#28. I'd rather be a big fish in a specialized pond than a little, little fish in a more generalized big pond.

Leonard Lauder

#29. Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?

Yann Martel

#30. Stupid little fish

Jettie Woodruff

#31. I do call upon a little Fish Mooney energy sometimes, believe it or not.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#32. It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!

Eugene O'Neill

#33. One fish. Two fish. Red fish. Blue fish. Black fish. Blue fish. Old fish. New fish. This one has a little star. This one has a little car. Say! What a lot of fish there are.

Dr. Seuss

#34. You don't understand people like me, like us, the other ones. You're like a bird that flies in the air, a fish that swims in the sea. You move, you look about you, you want things. There are others who live on earth and move just a little and don't look

Iris Murdoch

#35. Having a mixed background and feeling a little bit like a fish out of water in most places can be a benefit.

Viggo Mortensen

#36. A rib ... loaves and fish ... some spit ... God can do a lot with a little.

Mark Hart

#37. It is better to die fighting than to die on your knees.

Emiliano Zapata

#38. Fresh seafood reminds me of Hawaii and eating raw ahi fish on the beach with a little soy sauce - instant sashimi.

Marie Helvin

#39. I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect ... always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.

Henry David Thoreau

#40. I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish.

William Shakespeare

#41. Then Ben's mouth descended again and her thoughts, as fickle as tiny fish, swam out of her head. Gentle brushes of his lips turned into more insistent strokes of his mouth. Sexually frustrated widow or not, there was little doubt the man could kiss her into a melted puddle of goo.

Tracey Alvarez

#42. Poor little Roxxi, she felt as if she was a tiny fish that had suddenly been thrown into the large sea.

Amy Benton

#43. I've swallowed fish-eyes whole
like an endoscope.
I once ate a trout cooked inside a dolphin.
Felt like a shark eating another shark,
inside the cold-blooded womb of yet another shark.

Yann Rousselot

#44. There is a little Juliet inside me, hoping I will lock eyes with my Romeo on the other side of a fish tank or through a gap in a library bookcase. Hell, even if it's behind the condiments section in a supermarket. I don't really mind.

Jessica Thompson

#45. It was a beauty fire, it contained soul, the sides of sunshine mountains, hot streams of smiling fish, warm stockings smelling a bit like toast. I held my hand over the little flame. I had beautiful hands. that one thing I had. I had beautiful hands.

Charles Bukowski

#46. In a mucked up lovely river, I cast my little fly. I look at that river and smell it And it makes me want to cry. Oh to clean our dirty planet, Now there's a noble wish, And I'm puttin' my shoulder to the wheel 'Cause I wanna catch some fish.

Greg Brown

#47. A net across the Little Trickle won't catch fish in the Watercress River.

Carol Kendall

#48. Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest ... Lots of nuts, vegetables, fruits, fresh fish, lean meats, yogurt.

Cat Cora

#49. My teen-beat afternoon clarified everything for me. I had to get back to where I was who I was, a son of New Jersey, gunslinger, bar band king, small-town local hero, big fish in a little pond and breadwinner. Right

Bruce Springsteen

#50. 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

#51. A saying from the Hindu scriptures is: "In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle." Because

Paramahansa Yogananda

#52. I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

Sam Donaldson

#53. He tried to learn seductive phrases in all languages, but the only Swedish he had ever really needed was, "Do you serve anything aside from pickled fish?" and "If you wrap me in furs, I can pretend to be your little fuzzy bear.

Cassandra Clare

#54. My friend Ed Begley goes fishing. It's a little smelly to me, I don't like it so much. I like to eat fish, but I don't like to catch them.

Jeff Goldblum

#55. The truth is, fish have very little sex life. If you have ever tried to make love under water, you will know why.

Ed Zern

#56. Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#57. And I have two eyes. I've seen that little melodrama play out between you and that other tracker. Fish? Flounder? What's his name?

Amanda Hocking

#58. Dex lowered his voice, growling as his fingers moved the puppet's little paws. "Hi, I'm Ash. My hobbies include shooting things, shooting things, and uh, shooting things. Oh and I like fish.

Charlie Cochet

#59. Fish where the fish are. Don't

J.R. Little

#60. I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don't have any pets now.

Tom Felton

#61. Little John: I would come too. He might want knocking in a stream to cool his anger.
Much: I will come too, to fish him out again, and to reassure him that not all of us have this queer craving for hurling folks in water.

Robin McKinley

#62. Reply implicitly upon the old, old gospel. You need no other nets when you fish for men; those your Master has given you are strong enough to hold the little ones. Spread these nets and no others, and you need not fear the fulfillment of His word, 'I will make you fishers of men.'

Charles Spurgeon

#63. There were days when we used to say, what was in today's paper is tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.When I became successful, I enjoyed myself a little.

Steve Coogan

#64. You have to be cautious of eating continuously the same thing. Beef comes to mind right away, and there's nothing wrong with beef, but you've got to do whatever you're doing in moderation. So try to break it up a little bit. Eat some fish or some shellfish at least a couple of times a week.

Emeril Lagasse

#65. When frying small fish, disturb them little.

Confucius

#66. Adina gave a little shriek. "That fish just swam past my leg! Creepy! Where did it go?"
"To your right! Two o'clock! Get it!"
"You are officially the most bloodthirsty vegetarian ever.

Libba Bray

#67. People blanch to see "fish meal" or "meat meal" on a pet-food ingredient panel, but meal
which variously includes organs, heads, skin, and bones
most closely resembles the diet of dogs and cats in the wild. Muscle meat is a grand source of protein, but comparatively little else.

Mary Roach

#68. Polynesian women are known for their long hair, glowing skin, and thick nails. And that comes from the local diet, which is mostly plant based with a little bit of fish and a lot of natural fats and oils.

Nikki Reed

#69. Little smoke couldn't be noticed now, so we would take some fish off of the lines and cook up a hot breakfast. And afterwards we would watch the lonesomeness of the river, and kind of lazy along, and by and by lazy off to sleep.

Mark Twain

#70. Apparently they died from overfeeding. Apparently I overfed them. Apparently fish are terrible glutons with absolutely no self-control who just don't know when they've had enough and will stuff themselves to death with those innocuous little beige flakes imaginatively labeled 'fish food.

Steve Toltz

#71. In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.

Sri Yukteswar Giri

#72. If I've gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then I'm really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. It's effortless.

Alice Waters

#73. I'm trying out Theodore Finche, '80s kid, and seeing how he fits.
I fish through my desk for a cigarette, stick it in my mouth, and remember as I'm reaching for my lighter that Theodore Finch, '80s kid, doesn't smoke. God, I hate him, the clean-cut, eager little prick.

Jennifer Niven

#74. The gulfing whale was like a dot in the spell. Yet look upon it, and 'twould size and swell To its huge self, and the minutest fish Would pass the very hardest gazer's wish, And show his little eye's anatomy.

William Blake

#75. If one fish nibbles my toes I'm going to lose all testosterone and scream like a little girl in front of you. They won't will they?

Anne Eliot

#76. I just learned how to scuba dive. I'd been scared to rely on one little air hose for oxygen, but swimming with all those fish is exhilarating.

Cheryl Hines

#77. old books -- little tombstones of ideas and history

Amy Tan

#78. I just like The Little Mermaid cartoon. Say what you want. I have a fish tank, it's a long story. I have a fascination with the ocean, and you put a hot chick in there, it just adds more to it! I liked The Little Mermaid. It's a cool movie. It's one of those I watch over and over again.

Gabriel Iglesias

#79. I began cutting up fish when I was a little kid.

Masa Takayama

#80. I felt curiously aloof from my own self. No temptations maddened me. The plump, glossy little Eskimo girls with their fish smell, hideous raven hair and guinea pig faces, evoked even less desire in me than Dr. Johnson had.

Vladimir Nabokov

#81. But why have you dear English Jew whose forefathers fought to enter the country of Johnny Mill, the Stuart with a little heart, saunter in Haridwar, no pubs or fish and chips' counters here, only Ganga-Jal, -the holy ale- Quaff it for the spirit and carry it to the banks of Thames in a holy grail.

Aporva Kala

#82. All space is relative. There is no such thing as size. The telescope and the microscope have produced a deadly leveling of great and small, far and near. The only little thing is sin, the only great thing is fear!
("The Jelly-Fish")

David H. Keller

#83. Galen, who forgot this little thing called "tact" when he accused my mom of being a runaway fish-princess.

Anna Banks

#84. Indeed if fish had fish-lore and Wise-fish, it is probable that the business of anglers would be very little hindered.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#85. Big fish eats small fish; oceans need revolution! Big man beats little man; world needs revolution! Big galaxies swallow little galaxies; universe needs revolution! Anything which is not ethical needs a strong revolution!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#86. Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma' is good-lookin', So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.

Ira Gershwin

#87. The Feynman quip is not without a philosopher's tu quoque: "most scientists tend to understand little more about science than fish about hydrodynamics" (Lakatos 1978:62 n.2).

Robert Nola

#88. Everybody knows that smiling is for little girls, the gays and certain kinds of fish who are smiling by accident.

Buddy Wakefield

#89. I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.

PJ Harvey

#90. The old man's head was clear and good now and he was full of resolution but he had little hope. It was too good to last, he thought. He took one look at the great fish as he watched the shark close in.

Ernest Hemingway,

#91. A little of this caviar finds its way to the fish restaurants around Istanbul's Taksim Square, but the bulk is sent on to the United Arab Emirates to be enjoyed by wealthy Westerners and Arabs in the preposterous hotels that have set new standards in unnecessary opulence.

Misha Glenny

#92. Peacock bass like to hide at ambush points, away from the strong canal currents. If you fish early and know those peacock hangouts, you will have little or no trouble catching peacocks on lures and live bait.

Mark Hall

#93. Books are written little by little ... as the cat eats the fish.

Lynda K. Scott

#94. Fish cakes are perceived as being quite British, and they're always a bit brown and a little dull.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#95. You might be a big fish in a little pond,
Doesn't mean you've won
'Coz along may come a bigger one.

Coldplay

#96. Frog in a little pond can be much happier than fish in a vast ocean!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#97. You think I'm pretty?" I ask.
"We need to stop talking," he says a little gruffly. "We're scaring the fish off."
"Okay, okay." I bite my lip, then smile.

Cynthia Hand