Top 100 Quotes About Fish
#1. He pondered, having many disjointed and unconnected brooding thoughts; they swam through him like silvery fish. Fears, and mild dislikes, and apprehensions. And all the silvery fish recirculating to begin once more as fear.
Anonymous
#2. I can talk to fish!" Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. "Ask one over for dinner," Fang said, joining us.
James Patterson
#3. It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
Stephen Leacock
#6. Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.
Roderick Haig-Brown
#7. It's important for me to eat really healthy because I have such a sweet tooth. I eat fish and vegetables for lunch and dinner, and I work out every day.
Dylan Lauren
#8. A net across the Little Trickle won't catch fish in the Watercress River.
Carol Kendall
#13. By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#14. Save it fucker. I'm gonna slit you open and gut you like a fish and pull out your insides. I'm going to show you the black stuff inside your belly, and then I'm gonna make you eat it.
Brian Keene
#15. We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
Dan Futterman
#16. I usually fish a Hornberg or a Muddler Minnow, a deer-haired streamer that comes in a variety of sizes and colors but replicates a sculpin minnow or a grasshopper. Even if a trout doesn't take the larger streamers, it can usually be counted on to come up and give a look, revealing its location.
Joseph Monninger
#17. The flower is not evil because it blooms where it does. It simply exists. As do the fish in this pool, and the bird on the cliff, and you, and I.
Emily Rodda
#18. One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
#19. Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
#20. There's fish in here that I've read about that are so see-through that they're invisible. So I don't even think they know they exist.
Karl Pilkington
#21. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.
Barbara Kingsolver
#22. My message is, as it alway has been, moderation: meat as a main course on three days a week, eggs on one, fish on one other and some form of vegetarian meal on the rest constitute a perfectly acceptable, interesting and varied diet.
Delia Smith
#23. It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.
Izaak Walton
#25. The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems.
Poul Anderson
#26. Bean decided to pay attention to what Ms. Aruba-Tate was saying. "Today, class, we are having a special science lesson." Science! Bean stopped thinking about Colorado. Science was usually dirt or fish, and Bean liked both of them.
Annie Barrows
#27. Red candy is my favorite - I like red string licorice, Swedish Fish, and red gum balls.
Dylan Lauren
#28. [Wladimir] Klitschko is a different kettle of fish to Haye. He is a genuine man with an excellent team behind him and they are genuine fighting people.
Tyson Fury
#29. Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.
Ann Landers
#30. Don't stop and drift in the middle of the traffic lane, even if the fish are biting. The fish you catch might weigh many tons and have a propeller on the end and a bulbous bow on the other.
John W. Trimmer
#31. Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.
Cecelia Ahern
#32. The beer and the wurst were wonderful, but I was dying to be back in the South, where the livin' was easy, where the fish were jumpin', where the cotton grew high.
Johnny Cash
#33. if the seas were cleaned of whales and seals. Then, infested with poulps, medusae, and cuttle-fish, they would become immense centres of infection, since
Jules Verne
#34. We in America have gotten addicted to cheap food. The result of that is antibiotic-laden fish, foods that are bred to be portable.
Ruth Reichl
#35. The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been entertained by substantial numbers of persons over an extended period of time.
Fred Hoyle
#36. I go four- wheeling in my truck. I also like to fish, cook, do stuff around my house. I even studied fencing for awhile.
Luke Perry
#37. You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?
Ernest Hemingway,
#38. You have the subtlety of a wet fish slapping someone in the face.
Jessica Beck
#39. They say the good Lord doesn't charge you for the days you hunt and fish, and I believe that.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#40. I read in a book that they cut off the workers' hands if they hadn't collected enough rubber by the end of the day. The Belgian foremen would bring baskets full of brown hands back to the boss, piled up like a mess of fish. Could this be true of civilized white Christians? In
Barbara Kingsolver
#41. I reckon you've called the turn, Bill. That wolf's a dog, an' it's eaten fish many's the time from the hand of man. (ch. 2.)
Jack London
#42. The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They're just like dead fish washing up on the shores.
Steve Jobs
#43. With passion pray.
With passion make love.
With passion eat and drink and dance and play.
Why look like a dead fish
in this ocean of God?
Rumi
#44. As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip away on the endless current and are lost for ever in oblivion's black ocean.
Mervyn Peake
#45. I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.
Ted Williams
#47. Turning points in my life ... the bush, the trails, lakes, waterfalls ... moving camp from one wonderful lake to another ... the companionship of a great individual, a wonder with canoe, axe and fish line.
Arthur Lismer
#48. He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.
Ovid
#49. Giving a man a fish feeds him for one meal. Teaching a man to fish feeds him for a lifetime. As parents and gospel instructors, you and I are not in the business of distributing fish; rather, our work is to help our children learn 'to fish.'
David A. Bednar
#50. Ling cod is a mild-flavored and somewhat delicate fish that takes well to poaching, braising and pan-roasting.
Tom Douglas
#51. Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?
Yann Martel
#52. You tell anyone I cried, I'll find a dead fish, put it in a sock, hide it in your room, and let it putrefy.
Pierce Brown
#53. To use color well is as difficult as for a fish to pass from water to air or earth.
Andre Lhote
#54. There are plenty of fish in the sea, if I run out of women.
Joey Comeau
#55. I'm a big fish eater. Salmon - I love salmon. My sister loves Chinese food and sushi and all that. I'm not as big of a fan, but she likes it so we eat it a lot. So I'm beginning to like it more. I don't like the raw sushi. I liked the cooked crab and lobster and everything.
Elle Fanning
#56. I've been making sushi for 38 years, and I'm still learning. You have to consider the size and color of the ingredients, how much salt and vinegar to use and how the seasons affect the fattiness of the fish.
Masaharu Morimoto
#57. Light and unfeeling. Drifting and expanding through time and space. And then, as I know I am about to pierce the crust of existence, like a flying fish leaping out of the sea, I feel the pull from below.
Daniel Keyes
#59. If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?
T.H. White
#60. Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma' is good-lookin', So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.
Ira Gershwin
#61. 119. Let your hook be always cast in the pond. when you least expect it, there will be fish.
Ovid
#62. Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.
Henry David Thoreau
#63. Creeds and causal systems have argued with each other for millennia, and even so we and our ancestors have managed to live in a world of differing opinions. Philosophical disputes don't often affect the price of fish or wine.
Elizabeth Janeway
#64. Only dead fishes go with the flow.. I guess that make me a dead fish!
Shanai Campbell
#65. There will be no end to angling controversies for there is no one best way for everyone to fish.
Lee Wulff
#66. ghastly girl. Might as well move in. I don't know why Wade stands for it, frankly. But, well, he has other fish to fry..." He took another mouthful of salad. "Oh?
C.A. Larmer
#67. A slippery fish, flashing scales in the water and a noble fighter on the line, but dull as lead at the bottom of the boat.
Michael David Lukas
#68. I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.
Douglas Hofstadter
#69. Understanding of it and I am not sure that I believe in it. Perhaps it was a sin to kill the fish. I suppose it was even though I did it to keep me alive and feed many people. But then everything is a sin. Do not think about sin. It is much too
Ernest Hemingway,
#70. Who knows what any of those people or fish would do in our shoes?" Violet said. "It's impossible to know.
Lemony Snicket
#71. Had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it, but, but where there is no protection, then nets, poison, dynamite, slaughter of fingerlings, and unholy baits devastate the fish, so that 'free fishing' spells no fishing at all.
Andrew Lang
#72. Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.
Natalie Jeremijenko
#73. I'll lead you to the river of knowledge. You can catch your own damn fish.
Barbara Kingsolver
#74. The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.
Bjorn Lomborg
#75. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#76. To fish someone out of the men's loos.
Jojo Moyes
#77. Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.
Edward Abbey
#78. I don't want to go to the government," the Schwa says.
"Yeah," I said. "They'd dissect him and put him in a formaldehyde fish tank in Area 51."
Howie shook his head. "Area 51 is for aliens," he says. "They'd probably put him in Area 52.
Neal Shusterman
#79. Don't order the fish," Yancy advised Merry when they sat down. "But it's a seafood joint." "More like a petri dish with menus. When they say 'catch of the day,' they mean infection." Brennan
Carl Hiaasen
#80. All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.
Louisa May Alcott
#81. I think he'll be to Rome as is the osprey to the fish, who takes it by sovereignty of nature.
William Shakespeare
#82. I have won for you a fish, my fair one," he said, and kissed her on the cheek.
It was a sweet kiss, gentle and soft, and Mark smelled like he always did: like cold outside air and green growing things.
Cassandra Clare
#83. I'm obsessed with vinyasa flow yoga and Pilates. And since I live in Sweden, and we have good seafood, I tend to cook a lot of fish, preferably with oven-roasted veggies and a cauliflower mash.
Frida Gustavsson
#84. Horseradish is one of those perk-me-ups. You can use it in a cocktail sauce, you can bread fish with it - it loses its punch when cooked. It's a 'What is that?' flavor. It adds depth of flavor to things.
Tom Douglas
#85. The fish does not know it is wet. America is immersed in violence. The violence is in our souls. The enemy is within.
Bryant McGill
#88. Dinner would have been splendid ... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.
Winston S. Churchill
#89. If we wipe out the fish, the oceans are going to die. If the oceans die, we die. We can't live on this planet with a dead ocean.
Paul Watson
#90. A fish is more valuable swimming in the sea maintaining the integrity of oceanic eco-systems than it is on anyone's plate.
Paul Watson
#91. It was nearly five before Jake walked in. He was sunburnt, wet, and smelled faintly of fish. Sexy as hell. Don't ask me to explain.
Josh Lanyon
#92. Of what is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?
Albert Einstein
#94. One cannot toss ambassadors back like bad fish," said Eugenides. "You treat them with care, or you'll find you've committed an act of war.
Megan Whalen Turner
#95. Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
Lao-Tzu
#96. The Feynman quip is not without a philosopher's tu quoque: "most scientists tend to understand little more about science than fish about hydrodynamics" (Lakatos 1978:62 n.2).
Robert Nola
#97. I express through my music my philosophy, my feelings, my passion, my dreams, my fears, my hopes, my wishes and my expectations. Without music, I would be mute, like a fish without water, like a bird without wings like a human being without air.
Ricardo Derose
#99. People set newspapers on fire; they use them for wrapping fish. The Internet does not have that property. What I don't think we've gotten is that you can make things last longer than in print.
Ezra Klein
#100. Throw a lucky man into water and he'll surface with a fish in his mouth.
Julian Tuwim
