Top 70 Quotes About Jellyfish
#2. It was the emotional equivalent of being stung in the pride by a jellyfish.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#3. When you move like a jellyfish rhyth don't mean nothing. You go with the flow, you don't stop. Move like a jellyfish, rhythm means nothing.You go with the flow you don't stop.
Jack Johnson
#4. Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.
Bill Bailey
#5. Are you the stuff that hero's are made of? Or are you a jellyfish in a skirt?
Cressida Cowell
#6. A lot of athletes have this sort of invincibility: [The jellyfish] should worry about me. I don't worry about them. I'll just swim right through them.
Diana Nyad
#7. I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide's just gently helping you along.
Andrew Buchan
#8. I might be able to get Vince alone and break him down. He's got all the spine of a dying jellyfish.
Stephen King
#9. The prize was really for the molecule. In 1962, Osamu Shimomura discovered a protein in a jellyfish that caused it to glow bright green. With colleagues, 30 years later, I was able to insert this G.F.P. gene into bacteria and make them turn green.
Martin Chalfie
#10. Nature has provided two great gifts: life and then the diversity of living things, jellyfish and humans, worms and crocodiles. I don't undervalue the investigation of commonalities but can't avoid the conclusion that diversity has been relatively neglected, especially as concerns the brain.
Theodore Holmes Bullock
#11. A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.
Jeffrey Kluger
#12. had a hunch that people wanted to keep jellyfish as pets, so he created a test website and bought $100 in Google search ads. Lo and behold, his
Anonymous
#13. My angels are jellyfish,
electric, nearly invisible,
armed with poisoned harpoons.
My archangels are yellow tang.
They feed on sunlight.
They speak through color.
Anything in their paths turns blind.
Eric Gamalinda
#14. In a moment I might be under the wave swallowing seawater and small jellyfish, but right now I am an ancient princess of Hawaii, I am a bikini model, I am a goddess before the crest of a monster billow.
Wilma Johnson
#16. Nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making nuisances of themselves.
Lyndon LaRouche
#17. Without fake tan I have the skin tones of a dead jellyfish.
Jenny Eclair
#18. What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but that's not true at all. The real world is a much darker and deeper place than this, and much of it is occupied by jellyfish and things.
Haruki Murakami
#19. I'm the one who ran this whole mess into the jellyfish field.
Nicola Cameron
#20. The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying on sand.
Margaret Atwood
#21. We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.
May Sarton
#22. Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.
Charlie Chaplin
#23. Perthites were like the Swan River's jellyfish - small pink blobs adrift in a warm environment.
Dave Franklin
#24. South Africa is not a jellyfish and is in many respects a swordfish.
P. W. Botha
#25. We have a huge amount of DNA in common with jellyfish.
Richard Dawkins
#26. I'd like to be a jellyfish, 'cause jellyfish don't pay rent.
Jimmy Buffett
#27. She felt as if she had no bones, like a jellyfish, hooked from the sea. She walked slowly towards them, her ears ringing, but they ignored her. All except for Levi, who stood at the end of the bridge, his hands in his pockets, smiling.
Sanjida Kay
#28. Describing his experience with the sting of an extremely toxic jellyfish, he did something you don't often see a scientist do: he shivered.
Bill Bryson
#29. You can have my jellyfish
I am not sellyfish
Ogden Nash
#30. I spent my first 4 years living in the tiny town of Snug, by the sea near Hobart. Curious about animals, I would pick up ants in our backyard and jellyfish on the beach.
Elizabeth Blackburn
#31. I don't like jellyfish, they're not a fish, they're just a blob.
They don't have eyes, fins or scales like a cod.
They float about blind, stinging people in the seas,
And no one eats jellyfish with chips and mushy peas.
Get rid of 'em!
Karl Pilkington
#32. I scoop a clattering cascade of green apple Jelly Bellys into the white paper bag and remember when we were seven. I got stung by a jellyfish. Tim cried because his mother, and mine, wouldn't let him pee on my leg, which he'd heard was an antidote to the sting.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#33. The box jellyfish takes you into an area of what I'd call science fiction. You feel like you've been dipped in hot burning oil. You burst into flames.
Diana Nyad
#34. Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct.
Jeffrey Kluger
#35. Gathered together in this fashion, Jerry could see that the Whitstables possessed certain common physical characteristics, including wayward teeth, large earlobes, and the sort of stress-related blotchiness usually found in cornered jellyfish.
Christopher Fowler
#36. scientists took a run-of-the-mill white rabbit embryo, implanted in its DNA a gene taken from a green fluorescent jellyfish,
Yuval Noah Harari
#37. Who's going to rob us? A crackhead crab? A jellyfish junkie?
Kathy Reichs
#38. Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.
Gene Tierney
#39. 'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish.
Vince Gilligan
#40. Some plants, some small water creatures give a sort of jellyfish sort of birth by breaking apart, by separating themselves from themselves.
H.D.
#41. I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.
Peter Benchley
#42. [Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful.
Karl Pilkington
#43. The FA would remove him tomorrow if they had a spine, but clearly, in former lives, were cruel to jellyfish which is why they have returned as them now.
Martin Samuel
#44. Cautiously, the mouth applied to the valve, I breathe. The gas still creeps over the ground and sinks into all hollows. Like a big, soft jellyfish it floats into our shell-hole and lolls there obscenely.
Erich Maria Remarque
#46. The jellyfish doesn't actively move anywhere - it's just moved with the tides. Is that what man is? Man's just the jellyfish: stuff happens to you, and you get twisted in different directions.
Andrew Buchan
#47. We need to encourage an attitude of constant questioning, which is a genuine part of our potential as students. If students were required to drop their questions, that would create armies of zombies- rows of jellyfish ... The questioning mind is absolutely necessary.
Chogyam Trungpa
#48. Because no matter what happens, you are going to get hurt in life. But it's so much better to have jumped into the ocean and gotten stung by a jellyfish than to never have felt the salt water between your toes at all.
T.K. Leigh
#49. Jellyfish do not respond to reason, they usually don't respond to kindness, and they will always show up to ruin a fun party if possible.
Kelly Williams Brown
#50. Jellyfish," Riaz said, after considering the other inhabitants of the sea. "Seriously, there cannnot be jellyfish changelings."
Hawke turned to look over his shoulder. "What the hell have you been smoking?"
Riaz shruged, his mood undampened. "It was green and leafy.
Nalini Singh
#51. If we don't manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew.
Daniel Pauly
#52. They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride through life like conjoined jellyfish - expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other's spaces liquidly.
Gillian Flynn
#53. the nameless maiden in the advertisement was like a thousand other clothing models he had seen in magazines - arched brows, big eyes, angular cheeks, pouting mouth, a fetching figure, and a haughty, revolted look, as though someone had just offered her a jellyfish to hold.
Herman Wouk
#54. Sometimes you have to force yourself to leave your house even though every introverted bone in your body wants to secede and make you into a human jellyfish.
Jenny Lawson
#55. She lived and breathed, Brrr knew, with a high tolerance for detachment - like a lake jellyfish floating in a glass casket, oblivious of japing crowds.
Gregory Maguire
#56. The more fragile the animal, the more it needs to protect itself. So the more venom a creature has, the more we should be able to forgive that animal. They're the ones that need it most. And, really, what is more fragile than a jellyfish, which doesn't even have any bones?
Ali Benjamin
#57. A person without conviction is a weak, jellyfish type of individual who mindlessly follows the crowd.
Rick Warren
#58. We've survived raging rivers, men with spears, dehydration, the Triggers, oceanic storms, jellyfish stings, Pandora Wars, hypothermia, avalanches. We've come out the other side alive and bitter.
We want the Cure.
And we want revenge.
Victoria Scott
#61. The most important thing to know about prehistoric humans is that they were insignificant animals with no more impact on their environment than gorillas, fireflies or jellyfish.
Yuval Noah Harari
#62. The real world is in a much darker and deeper place than this, and most of it is occupied by jellyfish and things. We just happen to to forget all that. Don't you agree? Two-thirds of earth's surface is ocean, and all we can see with the naked eye is the surface: the skin.
Haruki Murakami
#63. I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage.
Molly Harper
#64. Truth on our level is a different thing from truth for the jellyfish.
T. S. Eliot
#65. luxury underwater resort, Hydropolis. Shaped like a giant jellyfish, the Hydropolis would consist of two hundred luxury suites submerged sixty-six metres under the sea, offering spectacular views of the ocean bed and passing mermaids! This one-of-a-kind
J.R. Roth
#66. I like the jellyfish because it has no brain or heart. It's just a thing that takes in the ocean through its mouth. I like that kind of ambition and simplicity.
Sheila Heti
#67. The U.S. was the immigration country of choice even for alien jellyfish things that turned humans into scary monsters. It made you proud, really.
Gini Koch
#68. The men in this station survive by virtue of their jellyfish quality. There isn't one who would stand against him. Trying to rally the others to put pressure on "Hallam" would be like asking strands of cooked spaghetti to come to attention.
Isaac Asimov
#69. How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.
Andrew Sean Greer
#70. I'd visually have that idea. I'm diving off the end of the diving board. I'm not going to be worried about if I'm going to dive into a jellyfish or the water's going to be too cold or the boys are going to beat me. I'm just doing it. And if I do it, it's a good chance I'll make it.
Gail Sheehy
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