Mr Guppy Quotes

#1. Mr. Guppy suspects everybody ... of entertaining ... Sinister designs upon him ... he in the most ingenious manner takes infinite pains to counterplot, where there is no plot; and plays the deepest games of chess without any adversary

Charles Dickens

#2. Nereus to Lothaire:
"I really thought you'd demand my
firstborn."
"As if I'd want your fucking guppy,"
Lothaire drawled, tracing away before
Nereus could strike him down.

Kresley Cole

#3. What Leo does is so incredible that I have to be careful not to stand still watching him make his moves.

Thierry Henry

#4. Besides, morality is not about whether the human race survives, but about what kind of survival it gets. We marry; guppies don't. We don't eat our young; they do. Yet neither species is in danger of extinction.

J. Budziszewski

#5. Gabe pulled the card from the envolope.

I want to help you.

He flipped the card over.

You are the best thing to ever happen to Vernon.

Then in the tiniest script were words that Gabe had to squint to read:

PS. The dog's name is Guppy.

Audrey Shafer

#6. "Why, what I may think after dinner," returns Mr. Jobling, "is one thing, my dear Guppy, and what I may think before dinner is another thing."

Charles Dickens

#7. The verb 'to love' in Persian is 'to have a friend.' 'I love you' translated literally is 'I have you as a friend,' and 'I don't like you' simply means 'I don't have you as a friend.

Shusha Guppy

#8. Of all musical instruments the human voice is the most beautiful, for it is made by God.

Shusha Guppy

#9. Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

Paula Vogel

#10. In science ... "discovery" can mean finding a guppy with an extra spine in its dorsal fin.

Thomas Hayden

#11. Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges
battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.

Billy Graham

#12. In the traditional family structure of Persia ... one simply cannot discard close relatives just because one does not like them; rather one has to accommodate them, make allowances and accept them, like misfortune.

Shusha Guppy

#13. Start walking. When you hit a spot where you're gasping for breath, that should tell us our limitations. (Xypher) Oh, joy. I can't wait to be the guppy. (Simone) Glub, glub, little fishy. Start walking. (Xypher)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#14. There is something about a home aquarium which sets my teeth on edge the moment I see it. Why anyone would want to live with a small container of stagnant water populated by a half-dead guppy is beyond me.

S.J Perelman

#15. Morning shower cleans my body, but my mouth gets the first cleansing. Red silk tie accentuates a navy blue suit. Ready for a meeting at seven with 'human sharks'. Red tie? Forget it, a shark knows a guppy in fancy clothes.

Fidelis O. Mkparu

#16. Fortune favors the one who wanted to chang his life.

Pintu Shaw

#17. Do not put off today's work for tomorrow.

Umar

#18. If you don't throw it, they can't hit it.

Lefty Gomez

#19. A Happy Love-Life happens to the one who works hard at what he KNOWS about it. In all thy getting, get Knowledge.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

#20. Asking your husband to go one-on-one with Joe Broz is like putting a guppy in the piranha pool. If we don't find him before Broz does, he'll be eaten alive.

Robert B. Parker

#21. When it came to Eva's life, her mom had the awareness of a fifty-cent guppy; there were sad-eyed janitors at school who seemed to have more insight into Eva's heart than her own parents did.

J. Ryan Stradal

#22. Tutoring a four year old to get into an exclusive preschool made as much sense as hiring a swim coach for a guppy.

Jodi Picoult

#23. Do a little more every day than you are expected to do, and soon you will be expected to do more.

Evan Esar

#24. You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal.

Suzanne Somers

#25. Away Team, Guppy. Yes, we can." "If you would, please," Sophia radioed. "Nuke 'em from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

John Ringo

#26. It is very important not to become hard. The artist must always have one skin too few in comparison to other people, so you feel the slightest wind.

Shusha Guppy

#27. I feel like really thinking about art and really appreciating it and learning the language of it just makes you more of a connoisseur. I believe that.

David Rees

#28. What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?

Jack Kerouac

#29. Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, meeting the check of such another day.

William Shakespeare