Quotes About A Fish Bowl

#1. Go to a graduation party, put out a fish bowl, and you have a gold record.

Isaac Slade

#2. Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long.

Vince Poscente

#3. The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fish bowl and tells you their point of view ... The hedge funds and portfolio managers have a right to do this ... We've muted the analysts and their presence in the system.

Mario Gabelli

#4. Look not just at the Roman campagna, the pageantry of Venice, and the proud expression of Charles I astride his horse, but also have a look at the bowl on the sideboard, the dead fish in your kitchen, and the crusty bread loaves in the hall.

Alain De Botton

#5. We forget that the rest of live can be just as dangerous. I think about how fragile we are here
like fish in a glass bowl with the darkness pressing in on every side.

Carrie Ryan

#6. If we did not take action to solve this crisis, it could indeed threaten the future of human civilization. That sounds shrill. It sounds hard to accept. I believe it's deadly accurate. But again, we can solve it.

Al Gore

#7. I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living now.

Paulo Coelho

#8. We're not exposed to a lot of guys.

Beyonce Knowles

#9. If you shatter the fish bowl so that everything is possible you don't have freedom you have paralysis. Everybody needs a fishbowl.

Barry Schwartz

#10. We are fish in a bowl, dear.

Erin Morgenstern

#11. To give away flowers you have to literally cut off their life supply: 'Here you go, it's pretty now but it's rapidly dying and will decompose before your eyes.' It's like giving someone a pet fish without the bowl.

Jules Cassard

#12. To many mortals silence great gain brings.

Aeschylus

#13. Here is a fish swimming around comfortably and (he thinks) unobtrusively, flicking here and there amongst the kelp and the plankton. Draw away for the long view and there's the kicker: It's a goldfish bowl.

Stephen King

#14. A fish in a bowl thinks to know it all, for it has never seen the ocean.

Daniel Andersson

#15. From joy people are born; for joy they live; in joy they melt at death. Death is an ecstasy, for it removes the burden of the body and frees the soul of all pain springing from body identification. It is the cessation of pain and sorrow.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#16. Well, the gold fish in the bowl lay upside down bloating
Full in the sky and the plains were bleached white with skeletons
Various species grouped together according
To their past beliefs
The only way they ever all got together was
Not in love but shameful grief

Don Van Vliet

#17. I think about how fragile we are here - like fish in a glass bowl with darkness pressing in on every side.

Carrie Ryan

#18. I had to come to terms with the fact that I wouldn't have peace with myself until I found a way to like myself.

Michael Barbarulo

#19. 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

#20. His slow smile didn't soften his hawkish features. You'll come to my bed. And you won't think it a waste of time.

Meljean Brook

#21. Cats can derive their nutrition from the air they breathe until you get the message that the Fish Fin Buffet you put in their bowl three days ago will never be acceptable.

Kathy Young

#22. He missed you
like a fish in a bowl
misses the open sea.

Catherynne M Valente