Out Like Trout Sayings

#1. The horses came to an abrupt halt, jolting the children so that they were torn from their seats and flung together like trapped trout.

Jessica Lawson

#2. If I'd had a bazooka, I could have blown a hole in the wall between us. If I hadn't killed one or both of us, I could have asked you, 'What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like that?'

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#3. In a clear brook
With joyful haste
The whimsical trout
Shot past me like an arrow
I play the line of the song, I play the leaps and plunges of the right hand of the piano, I am the trout, the angler, the brook, the observer.

Vikram Seth

#4. Kilgore Trout owned a parakeet named Bill. Like Dwayne Hoover, Trout was all alone at night, except for his pet. Trout, too, talked to his pet. But while Dwayne babbled to his Labrador retriever about love, Trout sneered and muttered to his parakeet about the end of the world.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. Floating upward through a confusion of dreams and memory, curving like a trout through the rings of previous risings, I surface. My eyes open. I am awake.

Wallace Stegner

#6. It's circumstantial evidence, like finding a trout in the milk.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. I rolled my eyes. He made me sound like a cunning criminal about to bring down the entire covenant.

Jenny Trout

#8. Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.

Mary Augusta Ward

#9. If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting and I like watching him.

Matt Kemp

#10. 'Mustanging' was like trout fishing. It is always the big ones that get away. When you did get a bunch of them into a corral, you found they did not look half so large and handsome as when they were first sighted on the prairie.

Will C. Barnes

#11. 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

#12. When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air. Some people are ruthless with their schedules. Not me. I wing it.

Douglas Coupland

#13. I'm not really a big Springsteen guy. I'll listen to the music, but ... I didn't really get attached to it as much as, like, country artists. That's really who I listen to.

Mike Trout

#14. Trout aren't naturally as selective as they've become in crowded tailwaters - they've been trained to be like that by too much fishing pressure. I've seen tailwater fish that are so hysterical they'll refuse naturals. You wonder how they get enough to eat.

John Gierach

#15. There was a photograph of Trout. He was an old man with a full black beard. He looked like a frightened, aging Jesus, whose sentence to crucifixion had been commuted to imprisonment for life.

Kurt Vonnegut

#16. Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.

Robert Trout

#17. Can I have a glass of water?" Her voice was hoarse, probably from screaming. She'd always sounded like that after they'd-

He didn't just force the thought aside. He clubbed it unconscious, threw it into a crawl space and walled it up alive.

Jenny Trout

#18. On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.

Thomas Jefferson

#19. I do like Captain Beefheart (Trout Mask Replica is a misunderstood masterpiece!) and I do have two kids but I've never written a prize winning novel called Oh, Bollocks!

Jon Edgell

#20. As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.

Mike Trout

#21. In this ever changing world, there are few things that have remained constant for me. The chance of hooking a nice trout still excites and thrills me to this day ... just as it did when I was a kid. I like that!

M.A. Bookout

#22. I felt like Eartha Kitt. I'm serving fish, honey, and this ain't trout.

Jujubee

#23. Trout asked him what it had felt like to work for an industry whose business was to destroy the countryside, and the old man said he was usually too tired to care.

Anonymous

#24. Like most science-fiction writers, Trout knew almost nothing about science, was bored stiff by technical details.

Kurt Vonnegut

#25. Trout was deflated - neutralized. He dropped his arms, became child-like now.

Kurt Vonnegut

#26. Really, it's amazing. You are his other half, Alexandria, You are fated to be with him. You belong to him."

It felt like something sat heavy on my chest. "Oh.Oh.No."

Seth frowned at me. "You don't have to sound so disgusted.

Jenny Trout

#27. What happened to your face?"

"What happened to yours?" I retorted. "You look like a damn Oompa Loompa. You should lay off the spray tanning, Lea.

Jenny Trout

#28. You pout like a trout in a drought ... can't get out.
You want to scream, but fish can't shout.

MF Grimm

#29. Love is a myth.'
'Love is a myth,' Grandfather Trout said. 'Like summer.'
'What?'
'In winter,'Grandfather Trout said, 'summer is a myth. A report, a rumor. Not to be believed in. Get it? Love is a myth. So is summer.

John Crowley

#30. Like a rainbow trout in a stream, the girl sometimes flashed her true self to him.

Eowyn Ivey

#31. If this was one of those books, there would now be three pages of head-banging sex. The reality was that he pulled me close, whispered, 'Mfhbnnntx,' and I pulled his arm over me like a cover and muttered, 'Trout,' and that was pretty much it.

Jodi Taylor

#32. A brown trout sips one off the surface. Beneath the trout, mica-flecked sand gleams white. Come fall the female's caudal fin will nudge the grains to make a nest, the eggs spilling like pearls into a purse.

Ron Rash