Quotes About Eels

#1. It was the first time her eyes had really met mine and to be honest I think there was more warmth between the lamb chops in the freezer. Daniel meeting Felicity in Cousin Felicity and the Eels of Misty Point.

Kaal Kaczmarek

#2. You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets.

Aristophanes

#3. An Egyptian medical scroll dating back at least 1,500 years BCE recommended treating migraines by using an electric catfish. In other cultures, electric eels were wrapped around a migraineur's head to ease the pain.

Carolyn Bernstein

#4. I eat cold eels and think distant thoughts.

Jack Johnson

#5. Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.

Alain De Botton

#6. at the Tangalooma Island Resort in Australia, where wild bottlenoses are regularly fed fish by people standing in the shallows, biologists have documented - on twenty-three occasions - the dolphins reciprocating, swimming up to offer freshly caught tuna, eels, and octopi as gifts.

Susan Casey

#7. I gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan.

Octavia Spencer

#8. Preparing the communal evening meal sometimes caused arguments. Every village in Sicily had a different recipe for squid and eels, disagreed on what herbs should be disbarred from the tomato sauce. And whether sausages should ever be baked.

Mario Puzo

#9. When I took my poetry class in school. I read an e. e. cummings poem. I don't mind eels except how they feels and maybe as meals. I knew there was hope for me.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#10. My hovercraft is full of eels.

John Cleese

#11. You filthy hypocrite! What about you and Lavender, thrashing around like a pair of eels all over the place?" demanded Ginny.

J.K. Rowling

#12. The only remedy is to take the liver of a toad, bind it tight about your throat, stand naked by the full moon in a barrel of eels' eyes

J.K. Rowling

#13. Thinking of Osha made Bran wonder where she was. He pictured her safe in White Harbor with Rickon and Shaggydog, eating eels and fish and hot crab pie with fat Lord Manderly.

George R R Martin

#14. Like eels in a bucket, slithering over one another and trying to bite each other's tails

Brandon Sanderson

#15. When he came to, the eels were still being removed from him and Anvar was congratulating one of the rivermen. The man had smashed open a barrel of eels and covered both dwarf and zombie with them.

Ian Livingstone

#16. It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels.

Baron D'Holbach

#17. Consciously, she thought she had her feelings for him licked; subconsciously, every time she thought about him, it was as though someone stumbling around inside her head had kicked over a bucket of electric eels.

John Ramsey Miller

#18. I escape to my bedroom and feed my pet eels some chopped boiled eggs. Aphrodite and Adonis perform a graceful dance, entwining their bodies, capturing the food as it floats down like they're lovers catching snowflakes on their tongues.

A.G. Howard

#19. It's like going to the zoo when you come to my house. I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider.

Tracy Morgan

#20. Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.

Robert Jordan

#21. You are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot.

Douglas Adams

#22. I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.

Tracy Morgan

#23. After luncheon, accordingly, when the other two had settled themselves into the chimney-corner and had started a heated argument on the subject of EELS,

Kenneth Grahame

#24. She is drawn to the river, and all its hideous, dead-eyed treasures: rot-bloated cats, and cold-meat corpses of unwanted infants, eels plucking at their tender fingers and toes.

Emmanuelle De Maupassant

#25. The apartments are made for eels.

Cary Fukunaga

#26. They were two superior eels
at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.

Anne Carson

#27. Index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail.
Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

Alexander Pope

#28. Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn't mean I'm an eel-and-pie yob.

Michael Caine

#29. POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.

Ambrose Bierce

#30. Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell

Bertrand Russell

#31. A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.

Tobias Smollett

#32. Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.

James De La Vega

#33. I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.

Edith Sitwell

#34. How index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

Alexander Pope

#35. The funniest thing about comedy is that you never know why people laugh. I know what makes them laugh but trying to get your hands on the why of it is like trying to pick an eel out of a tub of water.

W.C. Fields