Quotes About Minnows

#1. A stimulus is a stimulus. The body doesn't give a damn about the meaning of the stimulus. Whether minnows or communion, the sebaceous glands stand up erect.

Thomas Mann

#2. Freedom for the pike is death for the minnows.

R. H. Tawney

#3. Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'?

William Shakespeare

#4. Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love.

Theodore Roethke

#5. I was thinking the other day that his life reminds me of throwing a piece of bread into a stream and watching a whole flock of little minnows come up and start nibbling at it.

Eloisa James

#6. I didn't grow up playing video games. I grew up catching crawdads in the creek and minnows and lizards and snakes.

Blake Shelton

#7. A silence reigns upon the air, Upon the pansies by the shore, Upon the violets, pale and fair, Upon the willow, bending o'er; The reeds and lilies silent grow, The dark green waters silent sleep, Save when the summer breezes blow, Or silvery minnows leap.

George Arnold

#8. We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows

Joseph Campbell

#9. There is so much,I thought,just under the surface. So many memories, darting like silvery minnows in a shallow stream.

S.J. Watson

#10. It was becoming more and more clear that if the asteroids were the schools of minnows swimming among the pod of whales, then Pluto and the Kuiper belt objects were simply a previously overlooked collection of sardines swimming in a faraway sea.

Mike Brown

#11. Questions swirled in my brain like terrified bait minnows in a bucket.

Julian May

#12. Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.

Dr. Seuss

#13. To sweeten the hours we share scandals from the city, how curators removed an elephant's heart from the museum because it began beating when anyone in love looked at it, how the coroner found minnows swimming in a drowned girl's lungs.

Traci Brimhall

#14. What are minnows but brief flashes? And what are thoughts? And how do you capture a brief flash, even for a second?

Dinty W. Moore

#15. She was never so petty. She did not dabble with minnows at the surface when there were thirty-pound salmon swimming deeper down.

Elizabeth Wein

#16. So many teen films are overproduced and people are going to burnout on the subject.

Kirsten Dunst

#17. I don't like television and movies where it's like, "Well, that was entertaining, but when I think back on it, that didn't really make sense and it's empty." That's like junk food, to me.

Frank Spotnitz

#18. You humans, always eating. I'll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working." Myrnin set aside his book and walked into the back of the lab.
"Don't use the same beaker you used for poisons!" Claire yelled after him. He waved a pale hand. "I mean it!

Rachel Caine

#19. True peace is when you can be happy in the midst of chaos.

Matthew Donnelly

#20. Oklahoma's always been good to me.

Alan Jackson

#21. Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive a mortal blow. The perfect crime
for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found.

Paulo Coelho

#22. A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.

Jim Brown

#23. It's no disgrace to be old. But damn if it isn't inconvenient.

Moms Mabley

#24. Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.

P.T. Barnum

#25. People differ in where they direct their empathy and their compassion. Many people are intensely concerned about the suffering of non-human animals, and some do not care at all. There are cultural differences.

Paul Bloom