Top 70 Quotes About Small Fish
#1. Your boyfriend's penis is not an awkward string of spaghetti that has to be scooped up and sucked down. The Emperor of China once asked Lao-tzu: How should I rule the kingdom? To which Lao-tzu replied: Rule the kingdom as you would cook a small fish. A really good blowjob is the same.
Chloe Thurlow
#2. 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
#3. Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a primitive fish and turned a small lump of olfactory tissue on its nerve cord into a brain. We think because we smelled.
Lyall Watson
#4. Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it.
Laozi
#5. Trees don't sneak on you.
-Brook Where Small Fish Swim
Erin Hunter
#6. I understand that you're a big fish in a small pond, but I'll explain that if you want to swim in the ocean, you must understand that the ocean is populated by sharks, and sharks never sleep.
Kristen Ashley
#7. When frying small fish, disturb them little.
Confucius
#8. I usually eat six times a day, small meals. For breakfast, an egg and a corn tortilla, salsa and cilantro, and some ham. For snacks, I'll have an apple, some string cheese, a yogurt. For lunch I'll have salad with protein in it and for dinner usually steamed vegetables and chicken or fish.
Sprague Grayden
#10. I've recovered my tenderness by long looking;
I'm a Socrates of small fury.
The waves bends with the fish. I'm taught
As water teaches stone. Believe me, extremest oriole,
I can hear light on a dry day.
The world is where we fling it; I'm leaving where I am.
Theodore Roethke
#11. There were large and small ones too. And some quite in-between. But all of equal nastiness.
And smelliness and ghastliness.
For they would eat a fellow up, as one might fish and chips
Robert Rankin
#12. When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach
Peter Ustinov
#13. The cute little fish had big eyes and a rounded body with black polka dots and fins on either side of him that fluttered like hummingbird wings.
"He's staring at me."
"He knows a beautiful thing when he sees it.
Robin Bielman
#14. The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
Abigail Adams
#15. Loads of overtaking is boring. You go fishing and you catch a fish every ten minutes and it's boring. But if you site there all day, and you catch one mega fish, you come back with stories that you caught a fish this big (indicates a big fish), intead of this size (indicating a small fish)
Eddie Irvine
#16. He would have felt safe if alongside the Dentrassis' underwear, the piles of Sqornshellous mattresses and the man from Betelgeuse holding up a small yellow fish and offering to put it in his ear he had been able to see just a small packet of cornflakes. But he couldn't, and he didn't feel safe.
Douglas Adams
#17. Big fish eats small fish; oceans need revolution! Big man beats little man; world needs revolution! Big galaxies swallow little galaxies; universe needs revolution! Anything which is not ethical needs a strong revolution!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#18. Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
Lao-Tzu
#19. Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.
Ernest Hemingway,
#20. I follow the Dr. Peter D'Adamo Blood Type Diet as best I can. It's an eating and living guideline that understands you as a biochemical individual ... and I find it really works for me. I eat vegetables, ocean caught fish, and small amounts of organic free range chicken.
Miranda Kerr
#21. The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.
Roberto Cavalli
#22. In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, it's the fast fish which eats the slow fish,
Klaus Schwab
#23. Travelling to different countries is a goal. I wouldn't mind playing huge places if we got an opportunity to, but it's nice to play small places too. Fish was saying yesterday that he doesn't ever want to play stadiums, or maybe he would once, he said.
Mike Gordon
#24. Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish.
Laozi
#25. It's all about portion control. Grilled fish, a small amount of wild rice and vegetables is a good meal.
Elizabeth Hurley
#26. Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#27. But I love fish, cheese and meat, and I eat everything, but only in small quantities if it's rich.
Eva Herzigova
#28. Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.
Baruch Spinoza
#29. Using a fisherman's net with large holes will only catch big fish; letting the smaller ones escape unharmed. It is a lot like life: focusing only on one golden opportunity lets the smaller ones slip away unnoticed. However, starting small will catch larger opportunities over time.
Adam Santo
#30. Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.
Og Mandino
#31. Murder was apparently too common-place in the big city to attract much notice.
Poor Luther, thought Lucy, as she headed back to the hotel. Even in death he was only a big fish in a small pond.
Leslie Meier
#32. Ruling a large kingdom is like cooking a small fish ...
Lao-Tzu
#33. In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a big pond.
Victoria Beckham
#34. Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say - a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale.
William Carlos Williams
#35. Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
Kirstin Chen
#36. The Emperor of China once sent a messenger to the wise man Lao-tsu to ask how he should rule the kingdom. Lao-tsu replied that he should rule the kingdom in the way you would cook a small fish. How do you cook a small fish? In the steady, cautious, caring way you undress a woman.
Chloe Thurlow
#37. If their mother complained that he hadn't brought back enough, he'd say, Better to eat a small piece of fish with flavor than a large one without. He'd witnessed a famine of devastating proportions, never taking a single meal for granted.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#38. Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond?
Lisi Harrison
#39. Even the small poems mean something. they are often whales in the bodies of tiny fish.
Nayyirah Waheed
#40. Love is like going fishing, you never know what size fish will be taken out of the water, but big or small you will be the one deciding to either kill it or keep it close to you under good care and nature it. But firstly you have to take the courage to go fishing.
Marcus L. Lukusa
#41. All space is relative. There is no such thing as size. The telescope and the microscope have produced a deadly leveling of great and small, far and near. The only little thing is sin, the only great thing is fear!
("The Jelly-Fish")
David H. Keller
#42. Cyclops, that's like this primal fear. I had dreams for years that the Cyclops was a small creature living in our huge fish tank at home, and at night, it was going to grow to full size and come after me.
Henry Selick
#44. Sometimes the ship would sail above dark storm clouds, as big as mountains, and the crew would fish for lightning bolts with a small copper chest.
Neil Gaiman
#45. The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves ...
Leigh Hunt
#46. You should rule a great country As you would fry a small fish- With the least turning.
Laozi
#48. I kind of killed it in college. You know that saying "big fish in a small pond"? At Dartmouth college, I was freakin' Jaws in a community swimming pool
Mindy Kaling
#49. Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.
George Eliot
#50. Then Ben's mouth descended again and her thoughts, as fickle as tiny fish, swam out of her head. Gentle brushes of his lips turned into more insistent strokes of his mouth. Sexually frustrated widow or not, there was little doubt the man could kiss her into a melted puddle of goo.
Tracey Alvarez
#51. I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.
Anthony Michael Hall
#52. Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.
Laozi
#53. The dolphin (dorado), which is a brilliantly colored tropical fish, must not be confused with the creature, also called dolphin, which is a small, toothed whale.
Thor Heyerdahl
#54. I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.
Nick Lowe
#55. My teen-beat afternoon clarified everything for me. I had to get back to where I was who I was, a son of New Jersey, gunslinger, bar band king, small-town local hero, big fish in a little pond and breadwinner. Right
Bruce Springsteen
#56. But it hadn't just been Sebastian who had been watching me. Rather, it had been tribes of merman and mermaids, who had been curious about this newcomer in town that could outswim any school of small fish.
Keira D. Skye
#57. Arctic tern chicks are starving to death for similar reasons: they rely on small fish that have fled for colder waters.
Naomi Klein
#58. We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish.
Jennifer Granholm
#59. SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.
Ambrose Bierce
#60. For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#61. Younger generations in particular, who have spent a great deal of time in information environments since they were small children, would feel like a fish out of water if they were shut out of the global stream of information.
Hubert Burda
#63. The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.
Ian Anderson
#64. Some people like being a big fish in a small pond, others a ferocious shark in the ocean, I rather be the ocean. In the end, fish die.
Behdad Sami
#65. The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.
Ali Babacan
#66. Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.
Philip K. Dick
#67. Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
Lao-Tzu
#68. Don't even think about it.
You'll never catch that big fish with your small hook.
Phil Wohl
#69. Mark held up his plastic bag. Inside it, a small orange fish swam around in a circle. "This is the best patrol we've ever done," he said. "I have never been awarded a fish before.
Cassandra Clare
#70. Beware of a client who's suing on principle and paying by the hour. He rarely gets his money's worth.
Pete Morin
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