Top 100 Quotes About Goldfish
#1. Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.
Olivia Hussey
#3. I grew up around animals [seven horses, dogs and now a pet goldfish named Leila] and I'm rebelling against them not having a natural existence.
Isabel Lucas
#4. We weigh ourselves down with so many obstacles we can't even buy a goldfish bowl.
Barbara Sher
#5. I feel now like I'm living in a goldfish bowl and all I can see and hear from every window in my home is you. You, you, you.
Cecelia Ahern
#6. Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish.
Rick Riordan
#7. I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.
Lefty Gomez
#8. Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish?
Erica Jong
#9. Places to hunt
places to hide are
getting harder to find, and pet
canaries and goldfish too, did you notice
that?
Charles Bukowski
#10. Life is life and fun is fun
and all is quiet when the goldfish dies.
Eric Andrews-Katz
#11. There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages
"Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.
Beryl Markham
#12. One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish.
Bill O'Reilly
#13. Your husband drinks too much if he says he never drinks alone, but considers the goldfish somebody.
Phyllis Diller
#15. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
Robert Fulghum
#17. I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.
Paula Fox
#18. I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.
Chris Pratt
#19. Who's he seeing now then?"
"No idea. They're like funfair goldfish; no point giving them names, they never last that long.
David Nicholls
#20. without purpose your sharp perceptions and subtle noticings are just an excuse to swim around inside your own head like a goldfish whilst the real world rages on about you. You're all vision and no purpose, in a world that demands we constantly ready ourselves not to bark, but to bite.
Troy Blackford
#21. Life isn't fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)
Mark Billingham
#22. I felt as conspicuous as a baby whale in a goldfish pond.
Stephen King
#23. There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
Truman Capote
#24. A woman growing like a goldfish to the size of her bowl, the only escape the final leap.
Lauren Groff
#25. One of the women at the clinic had remarked dryly that Harrow's personal magnetism not only affected men, women and children but also extended to armoires, assorted chairs and the nearby goldfish in a bowl.
Lisa Kleypas
#26. Japanese goldfish,
With your gossamer tail,
You are the loveliest creature
I have ever seen."
"Japanese kitten,
Put your tongue back in where it belongs
And go away.
I know exactly what you are thinking.
Paul Gallico
#27. We come from goldfish, essentially, but that [doesn't] mean we turned around and killed all the goldfish. Maybe [the AIs] will feed us once a week ... . If you had a machine with a 10 to the 18th power IQ over humans, wouldn't you want it to govern, or at least control your economy? - SETH SHOSTAK
Ray Kurzweil
#28. I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.
Robert Plant
#29. I want to lie, shipwrecked and comatose, Drinking fresh mango juice. Goldfish shoals, nibbling at my toes. Fun fun fun in the sun sun sun. Fun fun fun in the sun sun sun.
Howard Goodall
#30. Nothing seems true today except the death of the goldfish who used to make love at ninety kilometers an hour in the pool. The maid has given him a Christian burial. To the worms! To the worms!
Anais Nin
#31. O, you the goldfish of
the swamp of my blood.
Let your drunkenness be pretty.
You are drinking me.
Forough Farrokhzad
#32. I'm wondering how long I have to deal with this bullshit before I can brief my troops. Oh, and I gotta feed my goldfish. Let's get this straight, Blondie - "
"Blondie?"
"That's an insult, not a pet name.
Rie Warren
#33. We have a puppy named Lucy ... two cats ... goldfish ... and Louis, our lop earred rabbit.
Julia Barr
#34. A goldfish is reason enough for living, if someone needs a reason.
Mason Cooley
#35. Here I was, telling him a heartwarming story about my first and only pet, a goldfish that died the day after I won it with a well-placed ping-pong ball at the County Fair, and he had a still-breathing corpse in the trunk.
Nicole Castle
#36. Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy
members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.
Edward V. Long
#37. I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.
Paul Rudd
#38. My goldfish is swimming around all excited inside the fishbowl on the fridge so I reach up and drop a Valium in its water.
Chuck Palahniuk
#39. Tony Fernandes is in that goldfish bowl and he's swimming against the tide.
Niall Quinn
#40. My friend once sculpted me a bust of Admiral Ackbar from 'Star Wars.' He's my favourite character in the films after Han Solo. He's that goldfish-type alien in the white costume. 'It's a trap!' I'm a big geek.
Katie McGrath
#41. Goldfish get big enough only for the bowl you put them in. Bonsai trees twist in miniature. I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.
Jodi Picoult
#42. Yeah, that sure was Mace Llewellyn staring at her from the other side of her desk. Just staring. Like he used to. Like he knew where she'd buried the bodies of all her goldfish after their unfortunate "accidents" or what she did with her sisters' toothbrushes on more than one occasion.
Shelly Laurenston
#43. If beer got any lighter you could raise goldfish in it.
Jerry Adler
#44. I said: "Dead end - quiet, restful, like your town. I like a town like this." Marlowe (talking about Olympia) in a short story called Goldfish.
Raymond Chandler
#45. The distance a goldfish swims is not controlled by the bowl.
Les Coleman
#46. Me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.
-Will Grayson (pg. 66)
David Levithan
#47. Can't say I'm surprised you were here. You have the curiosity of a cat and the common sense of a goldfish.
Susan Dennard
#48. Luckily, he had the memory span of a particularly dim goldfish, so with any luck he'd have forgotten all about the comment by the time they'd completed their mission.
Eoin Colfer
#49. Sometimes, Stukeley wondered if the captain, in spite of his considerable powers, was blessed with the memory of a goldfish.
Justin Somper
#50. She stumbled back a step. "Carlos was the ... ?"
"Panther, aye."
"He's a cat?" And her boss was a dog. She shook her head. Was her next door neighbor a goldfish?
Kerrelyn Sparks
#51. And the moral of that is "Once a goldfish, forever a goldfish.
Marissa Meyer
#52. Liberation was in the very scale of the city: a goldfish bowl one could never grow to fit.
Sheridan Hay
#53. Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.
Graham Taylor
#54. In 2000, Microsoft Canada reported that the average human had an attention span of twelve seconds; by 2013 that number had fallen to eight seconds. (According to Microsoft, a goldfish, by comparison, has an average attention span of nine seconds.)
Adam Alter
#55. People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.
Muriel Barbery
#57. I find myself staring at the goldfish. Bright as a penny, he swims in circles, happy to be going nowhere.
Jodi Picoult
#58. He'd failed them, the swimming goldfish of his life's tiny existence whom he held so dear in his heart; he'd turned his muses into mistakes and no one knew the difference but him.
Luke Taylor
#59. What's Your Purple Goldfish? busts a myth and reveals a simple truth about customer service. Stan uncovers the recipe for creating signature added value that increases customer satisfaction and drives positive word of mouth.
Barry Moltz
#60. In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more.
Emily Watson
#61. and there was a fish pond a large one full of the fattest goldfish you ever saw and they were tame. they came to the surface of the water and took pieces of bread from our hands.
Charles Bukowski
#62. Unbelievably, a goldfish can kill a gorilla. However, it does require a substantial element of surprise.
George Carlin
#64. 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
#65. A loach can't emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won't rise.
Yoshihiko Noda
#66. In the next shot the cameras zoomed to the fiancee who noticed the lights in the Czarina's room go out and the camera then turned to the pond where two goldfish were making love.
Pola Negri
#67. I read that goldfish have a memory of five seconds. I envy them. My memory of Alex, my love for him, will last my lifetime.
Simone Elkeles
#68. Parker, what are you doing?" "Making a funny face in an effort to make you stop staring at me like I murdered your beloved goldfish.
Penny Reid
#69. I've watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I've seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis. And I had a golden retriever behave like one.
N.D. Wilson
#70. Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin goldfish bowls filled to the brim with the clearest green water and that when the fish swim to the top, as they are doing now, you are devilishly charming?
Margaret Mitchell
#71. We don't even have a goldfish." "You've got to think toward the future." My dad smiled at me. "Maybe one day you'll move out and your mom and I will get a golden retriever to replace you.
Robin Benway
#72. Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.
Ani DiFranco
#73. As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.
Meg Rosoff
#74. Like a fish needs a bicycle. A goldfish riding a bicycle underwater. I need a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
Irina Dunn
#75. And of course I don't go anywhere without my pet goldfish, Anthrax. I always tell security I'm carrying Anthrax. Yeah, sure I get a lot of guff about it, but it's a family name; I'm not changing it.
Stephen Colbert
#76. Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.
Chevy Chase
#77. Dude." Percy sent his thoughts through the water, the way he spoke to other sea creatures. "A goldfish?"
Frank's voice came back to him: "I freaked. We were talking about goldfish, so it was on my mind. Sue me.
Rick Riordan
#78. No matter how lackluster its surroundings, within seconds, all was new again for a goldfish because it had figured out how to repair its sense of spectacle. There
Durga Chew-Bose
#79. Bill has three goldfish. He buys two more. How many dogs live in London?
Louis C.K.
#80. The dream state just before wakening when it seems perfectly logical for the goldfish not to like peeling its own potatoes on the bus.
Kate Griffin
#81. The addictive nature of Web browsing can leave you with an attention span of nine seconds - the same as a goldfish.
Sally Hogshead
#82. So I went in to a pet shop. I said, "Can I buy a goldfish?" The guy said, "Do you want an aquarium?" I said, "I don't care what star sign it is."
Tim Vine
#83. I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.
Ozzy Osbourne
#84. Shelby trailed off when she spotted the goldfish swimming in circles inside the Waterford. "Well, he's come up in the world," she said with a jerky laugh. "I don't think he appreciates it.
Nora Roberts
#86. No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.
Kin Hubbard
#87. Few books I had read so directly and wholly addressed that fundamental fact of existence: all organisms, whether goldfish or grandchild, die.
Paul Kalanithi
#88. Shit, this woman's scary. I'm glad my manager's the short one with the wispy hair and the shaking hands. Milo knows how to get stuff done, but he's about as terrifying as a goldfish.
C.M. Stunich
#90. Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond!
S.A.R.K.
#91. Like simple minded goldfish, we often believe the boundaries of our bowl to be the entire ocean.
Laren Grey Umphlett
#92. When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.
Alan Alda
#93. Now and then goldfish splish and gleam, like new pennies dropped in water.
David Mitchell
#94. Magic is a dark and elemental force, not just a lot of sparkly wands and crystal balls and talking goldfish.
Cassandra Clare
#95. IF a goldfish should want a vacation, who would know?
Kehlog Albran
#96. Just so you know,' I explained, remembering my own earlier arrogance, 'if you've ever owned a cat and therefore think you know how to handle a puma, you don't. It would be like playing with sharks because you once owned a goldfish.
Peter Allison
#97. Perhaps one of the more creative promotions of all time was
in 1969, when a marketer with the Procter & Gamble Company
came up with the idea of giving away goldfish with each purchase
of a king-size box of Spic and Span.
Mary Potter Kenyon
#98. I have pets, but they're the really ordinary sort - yellow Labrador, tabby cat, white rabbit, a few goldfish - that kind of stuff. Nothing very ... extravagant or unusual or exotic, but I find, in terms of inspiration, Mother Nature is just it.
Graeme Base
#99. The Ancient Greeks? If they had steam engines, why didn't they have trains?'
. . .
'They were philosophers; they put two and two together and got a goldfish.'
(p. 76)
Natasha Pulley
#100. I hate reality shows like Big Brother and I'm A Celebrity. I'd rather watch a goldfish bowl.
Janet Street-Porter
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