Quotes About Something Fishy

#1. Descartes says: I think, and I am every moment I am thinking, because I have this inner awareness of myself. And I always thought there was something fishy about that. I don't think there's any privileged self-knowledge. Most of our attention is to things outside us.

Marjorie Grene

#2. So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.

Clare Short

#3. You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt.

Dolly Parton

#4. Free-ranging single men are like a house that has been empty too long. There must be something fishy about the house, the woman thinks. Up for sale for six months and it's still vacant.

Herman Koch

#5. Elsewhere, they might call the wind Mariah, but here its name was Something Fishy.

Tom Robbins

#6. There's always something fishy about the French.

Noel Coward

#7. All the progress in science can't be used to build a smell receptor as capable as the one that a true leader possesses - to smell trouble or just something fishy.

Pawan Mishra

#8. The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'

Simon Sinek

#9. There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.

Pamela Stephenson

#10. If the first bite is with the eye and the second with the nose, some people will never take that third, actual bite if the food in question smells too fishy, fermented or cheesy.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#11. Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits, and spermatozoa and ovaries into fishy little plants growing babyward if we take no care to stop them.

Alasdair Gray

#12. A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.

A.A. Gill

#13. When friends become overfriendly - smell fish!

Adhish Mazumder

#14. Start walking. When you hit a spot where you're gasping for breath, that should tell us our limitations. (Xypher) Oh, joy. I can't wait to be the guppy. (Simone) Glub, glub, little fishy. Start walking. (Xypher)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#15. Something smells fishy and they say it's you, all I know is that you made it with the whole damn crew.

LL Cool J

#16. Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

#17. You're either saying 'Isabelle' or 'fishy smell.' Could be either, to be fair.

Cassandra Clare

#18. The chocolate raisins tasted somewhat fishy, but Lucy didn't care-chocolate was chocolate. She changed her mind however, when she realized that the raisins were tiny fish heads.

Angie Sage

#19. Discipline must be without control, without suppression, without any form of fear...It is not discipline first and then freedom; freedom is at the very beginning, not at the end.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#20. Give a drag queen a fish and you feed her for a day; show her how to be fishy and you feed her for a lifetime.

RuPaul

#21. The first time I saw a mermaid in my dream, and she looked so real...THAT.'s fishy!!

Ana Claudia Antunes

#22. Every time I walk by a spy shop, I think that I need to put some surveillance on somebody. Rick's been acting fishy! I need to buy a safe that looks like a Spray 'N Wash can. "Hey, Mitch, can I use the Spray 'N Wash?" "Yeah, if you want to spray your shirt with documents!"

Mitch Hedberg

#23. Wow," said Fishy. "I don't think I heard a single full stop in there. You know, when you start talking entirely in comma splices, you're probably ready for a time-out and a tranquilizer.

Mira Grant

#24. I missed a tuna-fish sandwich with mayo on toasted wheat bread more than anything. Six months after I went vegan, I snuck into a deli and took one home. And, of course, it wasn't nearly as good as I fantasized. It tasted, well, fishy.

Kathy Freston

#25. I do have very high customer service standards - I'd send back sushi because it's too fishy.

Greg McHugh

#26. Although I was flattered to be classed as a grown-up, I was not all that fond of oolong tea, which I found to leave a fishy taste in your mouth and a faint craving for rice.

Alan Bradley

#27. Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message.

Penelope Lively

#28. If you are thinking about mistakes during games then you are not concentrating on what is important which is the next shot or the next cross or whatever you have to deal with in that game. The mental side of things is massive, probably the biggest.

Shay Given

#29. The warehouse was a part of the wharves down at the lakeside, and even the chill waters of Lake Michigan were warmer than usual. They filled the air with more than the average water-scent of mud and mildew and eau de dead fishy.

Jim Butcher

#30. Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#31. Right after I graduated high school, I joined a sushi restaurant to learn how to make Japanese food. And then spent seven years. Then that time - that's enough. Then sushi restaurant - butchering fish and they make your body smell like fishy.

Masaharu Morimoto

#32. Sheeana would learn in time that any person who lived through the decision to die evolved a new emotional balance. Fears were transitory.

Frank Herbert

#33. There was something very fishy about Riley Bay.

Serra Elinsen

#34. In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

Ira Glass

#35. I need to put the right things in my body before and after I work out, so I end every workout with some sort of protein shake to help me get the most out of my training.

Sam Bradford