Quotes About Fish Bones

#1. I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing, In my veins, in my bones I feel it,- The small water seeping upward, The tight grains parting at last. When sprouts break out, Slippery as fish, I quail, lean to beginnings, sheath-wet.

Theodore Roethke

#2. I laughed. "I don't care if you're nice or not. I just want you to be you. No more pretending. I think it's time we all got to know the real Logan Lyke."
"What if I don't know who the real me is?" he asked.
"Then I guess you better find yourself," I smiled.

Micalea Smeltzer

#3. The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away . But when people left they always came back.

Alice Sebold

#4. He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.

Benedict Of Nursia

#5. Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.

Robert Frost

#6. Speaking of bones recalls an ugly custom of theirs, now obsolete - that of making fish-hooks and gimlets out of those of their enemies. This beats the Scandinavians turning people's skulls into cups and saucers. But

Herman Melville

#7. 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

#8. Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.

Theocritus

#9. God is magnificent.
God is mighty.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. The man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving.

Thomas Hardy

#11. In a shared fish, there are no bones.

Democritus

#12. He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

John Lennon

#13. Sometimes people say, 'Oh you did one of my favorite movies,' and I will ask them what the other one is, and it's always something that I totally hate.

Amy Heckerling

#14. I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water; fruit mold, rice, turnips; camphorated sausage, dough, cheese (white), cotton salad, and certain fish (skinless).

Erik Satie

#15. The author commented that John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign team worked like a band of brothers, while Richard Nixon's campaign team worked like a band of brothers in law under the direction of a quarrelsome aunt.

David Pietrusza

#16. Are you all right? No broken bones, no hidden concussions? No fish swimming around in your lungs?"
I smiled at him tiredly. "There might be a minnow or two, but I'm sure I'll cough them up before tomorrow," I said, and he chuckled.

Julie Kagawa

#17. Child, there's a sayin' every fishmonger has. When you buy land, you buy stones. When you buy fish, you buy bones.

Karen Cecil Smith

#18. I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

Karl Kraus

#19. Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics.

John P. Kotter

#20. Just behind his jaw bones a tiny movement was perceptible, like the movement of gills in a fish.

John Collier

#21. Before we got engaged, he never farted. Now it's a second language.

Caroline Rhea

#22. Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it.

Paddy Chayefsky

#23. The sad truth for American actors is that they really have no control whatsoever over the material that they get, or can do, particularly actresses. And if you're over 40 and you're an actress, forget it.

James Gray

#24. Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones are forever in allegiance with gravity while we ourselves dream of rising.

Mary Oliver