Top 100 Sayings About A Fish

#1. Pathetic, huh?" He learned that word
from me.
"Yeah. It's like the opposite of a fish,
right?

Hannah Moskowitz

Sayings About A Fish #476
#2. UC Santa Cruz biologist had discovered elevated levels of radiation in fish swimming among some of the 47,500 barrels of nuclear waste that the navy had dumped in a 540-square-mile area around the Farallones between 1946 and 1970.

Susan Casey

Sayings About A Fish #576
#3. If your rod weighs six ounces, your reel nine, and your line another ounce or two, it means that you are holding a pound of weight in your casting hand - much of the time at arm's length - all the time you fish. Try carrying a pound of butter around that way for four or five hours.

Ted Trueblood

Sayings About A Fish #4204
#4. In order to see a fish you must watch the water

Bodhidharma

Sayings About A Fish #4465
#5. You know, quite a few species of fish require two or more sexual partners ...

Kristen Schaal

Sayings About A Fish #6632
#6. [T]he last thing a fish notices is water.

David Allen

Sayings About A Fish #9251
#7. 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

Sayings About A Fish #9631
#8. If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod ... But it has among its predators - man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod.

Mark Kurlansky

Sayings About A Fish #10883
#9. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Unless he doesn't like sushi, then you also have to teach him to cook.

Auren Hoffman

Sayings About A Fish #11327
#10. He's out there waiting for us. We his the street, and we're ducks in a barrel. (Steele)
Isn't that fish in a barrel? (Syd)
Don't fuck with my metaphors right now, Syd. Can't you see that I'm under stress? (Steele)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sayings About A Fish #11934
#11. My fish dream is a sex dream.

Joseph Heller

Sayings About A Fish #14742
#12. Who is more responsible than a gull who finds and
follows a meaning, a higher purpose for life? For a thousand
years we have scrabbled after fish heads, but now we have a
reason to live - to learn, to discover, to be free!

Richard Bach

Sayings About A Fish #15061
#13. If you use a standard called "biological value" to rate protein sources ... soy finishes far below eggs, milk, fish, beef and chicken. The food with the highest biological value ever measured is whey protein ...

Lou Schuler

Sayings About A Fish #17128
#14. Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.

Grace Lee Boggs

Sayings About A Fish #17327
#15. CAN'T TAN PON IT LONG ... NAW EAT NO YAM ... NO STEAM FISH ... NOR NO GREEN BANANA
BUT DOWN IN JAMAICA WE GIVE IT TO YOU HOT LIKE A SAUNA..

Sean Paul

Sayings About A Fish #17878
#16. Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.

Patrick Stewart

Sayings About A Fish #18797
#17. It was the hardest year of my life. It was humbling. I was a fish out of water.

Warren Sapp

Sayings About A Fish #20723
#18. I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.

Macaulay Culkin

Sayings About A Fish #20850
#19. A bird & a fish can fall in love, but where do they make a home?

Dolly Parton

Sayings About A Fish #22134
#20. The word "essay" means to try out, test, probe. In the essay style, successive clauses and sentences are not produced by an overarching logic, but by association; the impression that prose gives is that it can go anywhere in a manner wholly unpredictable.

Stanley Fish

Sayings About A Fish #22360
#21. There are plenty fish in the sea, but a good number of them are venomous.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Sayings About A Fish #22953
#22. The man was watching the nearby fish tank, which stood beneath a depiction of Tindwyl, Mother of Terris, perched on the walls during her last stand against the darkness. In the tank, tiny octopuses moved across the glass.

Brandon Sanderson

Sayings About A Fish #23462
#23. But my anger was a slippery thing, like a fish I was trying to keep hold of, and it wiggled out of my grasp.

Cynthia Hand

Sayings About A Fish #24504
#24. A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

Benjamin Franklin

Sayings About A Fish #26255
#25. By my soul! I would rather have a dry death," quoth Sir Oliver. "Though, Mort Dieu! I have eaten so many fish that it were but justice that the fish should eat me.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sayings About A Fish #30875
#26. You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.

Douglas Adams

Sayings About A Fish #31161
#27. Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so much salt. Deer apparently ascend bodily into heaven; the brightest oriole fades into leaves.

Annie Dillard

Sayings About A Fish #32391
#28. Look closer. The river's its own world of fast and slow, deep and shallow, bright and shadowed. If you look at it like that, like a landscape where the fish live, it'll be easier to catch one.

Cynthia Hand

Sayings About A Fish #33521
#29. Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.

Alvar Aalto

Sayings About A Fish #33776
#30. My thoughts are so clear that I wouldn't be surprised if he could see them blazing above my head like a neon sign outside a fish and chip shop. I fancy you.

Jenny Downham

Sayings About A Fish #35319
#31. How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?

John Maynard Keynes

Sayings About A Fish #35732
#32. A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops.

Teresa Medeiros

Sayings About A Fish #36895
#33. What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Sayings About A Fish #36969
#34. Best thing a man can do. It's not the fish you catch, it's the peace of mind that you take home at the end of the day.

Anonymous

Sayings About A Fish #37499
#35. How can land be owned by another man. Warns one can not steal what was given as a gift. Is the sky owned by birds and the rivers owned by fish.

Lupe Fiasco

Sayings About A Fish #38687
#36. What's a feminist?" Julie asked.
"Someone who thinks women are fish," Barton replied. He was smiling at Lily. "And that men are bicycles, which makes us basically useless to anyone of the fish persuasion. But it does categorize us as creatures who exist solely for the purpose of being ridden.

Dianne Dixon

Sayings About A Fish #39286
#37. The oceans are a way of life. We fish; we sail; we have a robust marine economy.

Sheldon Whitehouse

Sayings About A Fish #40858
#38. A gluten-free diet still allows you access to almost every fruit and vegetable, a variety of grains and legumes, your pick of dairy products, fresh meats and fish and a whole slew of special gluten-free delights to satisfy your pretzel-bagel-muffin-doughnut craving.

Daphne Oz

Sayings About A Fish #41449
#39. My idea of working for a living is not going to office and earning a salary. It is to build a log house and catch my own fish and till some soil.

Girish Kohli

Sayings About A Fish #41747
#40. The effort flops like a just-caught fish inside her. A brief burst of possibility as the name is typed onto the screen, as she clicks to activate the search. Hope thrashing in the process of turning cold.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Sayings About A Fish #44485
#41. A phantom fish, half beaten to death, wriggled in my stomach.

Mike Mehalek

Sayings About A Fish #45174
#42. Look, life is only comprehensible through a thousand local gods ... spirits of certain trees, of certain curves of brick walls, of certain fish and chip shops if you like. And slate roofs, and frowns in people, and slouches ... I'd say to them, Worship all you can see, and more will appear ...

Peter Shaffer

Sayings About A Fish #46890
#43. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish.

James P. Gorman

Sayings About A Fish #47120
#44. Morning, ma'am. I'm looking for Tommy Mason. Is he around?" Polite and professional, that was Senior Agent Broussard.
"Lord, what's that no-good sonofabitch done now? Wait, you ain't a cop; you're a game warden. "What'd he do, run over a fish?

Susannah Sandlin

Sayings About A Fish #47208
#45. The lesson of the Impressionists is that there are times and places where it is better to be a Big Fish in a Little Pond than a Little Fish in a Big Pond, where the apparent disadvantage of being an outsider in a marginal world turns out not to be a disadvantage at all.

Malcolm Gladwell

Sayings About A Fish #48765
#46. Had a wee in the Amazon. Until Richard told me I should be careful because there are some tiny fish that can swim up from the water through my urine and into my knob! Is that how amazing the Amazon is? The fish in there would really rather live in my knob than the river.

Karl Pilkington

Sayings About A Fish #49888
#47. We are all, generally, symmetrical: ants, elephants, lions, fish, flowers, leaves. But she was a tree. No one expects a tree to be symmetrical at all.

Aimee Bender

Sayings About A Fish #51952
#48. But why have you dear English Jew whose forefathers fought to enter the country of Johnny Mill, the Stuart with a little heart, saunter in Haridwar, no pubs or fish and chips' counters here, only Ganga-Jal, -the holy ale- Quaff it for the spirit and carry it to the banks of Thames in a holy grail.

Aporva Kala

Sayings About A Fish #53383
#49. 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

Sayings About A Fish #54072
#50. To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

John C. Hawkes

Sayings About A Fish #59426
#51. The fish was a twelve-inch rainbow trout with a huge hump on its back. A hunchback trout.

Richard Brautigan

Sayings About A Fish #59560
#52. He missed you
like a fish in a bowl
misses the open sea.

Catherynne M Valente

Sayings About A Fish #60219
#53. In a recent interview, Hillary Clinton said that one of the jobs that prepared her to be president was sliming fish in Alaska. As opposed to Bill, who learned by catching crabs in Cancun.

Jimmy Fallon

Sayings About A Fish #61106
#54. Two fish in a tank, one says to the other - you drive I'll man the guns.

Tommy Cooper

Sayings About A Fish #61337
#55. Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.

Norman MacCaig

Sayings About A Fish #61400
#56. ...there was a storm of enormous proportions, with winds so strong that dozens of fish were drawn up from the reedy shallows, then lifted above the village in a shining cloud of scales.

Alice Hoffman

Sayings About A Fish #63398
#57. The term "flying saucer" seems to have been coined by accident. Arnold told reporters that the nine objects he saw were flat and shiny like a pie pan and that they looked like a little fish flipping in the sun.

Don Lincoln

Sayings About A Fish #64227
#58. I can drink like a fish, or at least, someone born with fetal alcohol syndrome.

Anthony Jeselnik

Sayings About A Fish #65617
#59. There is a cyclone fence between ourselves and the slaughter and behind it we hover in a calm protected world like netted fish, exactly like netted fish. It is either the beginning or the end of the world, and the choice is ourselves or nothing.

Carolyn Forche

Sayings About A Fish #66664
#60. My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and power and prove my manhood in titanic piscine war. But sometimes I do like a couple of cooperative fish of frying size.

John Steinbeck

Sayings About A Fish #66812
#61. My mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"
and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw

Charles Bukowski

Sayings About A Fish #67935
#62. I was a freshly caught fish who only wanted to be put back in familiar waters. - Shannon Webb-Campbell to -----, 2009 (age 26)

David Eso

Sayings About A Fish #69561
#63. As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.

Alex Faickney Osborn

Sayings About A Fish #74154
#64. The fish you release maybe a gift to another, as it may have been a gift to you.

Lee Wulff

Sayings About A Fish #74921
#65. I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now.

Shania Twain

Sayings About A Fish #75606
#66. The sun, sides bulging, squashed itself between two hills. It sent up a flare of golden light. The sky, patterned with a million tiny clouds like fish scales was illuminated.

Karen Foxlee

Sayings About A Fish #77031
#67. I began cutting up fish when I was a little kid.

Masa Takayama

Sayings About A Fish #77072
#68. You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.

Darrell Royal

Sayings About A Fish #77788
#69. I do fish, and as a matter of fact, I used to do a lot of deep sea fishing, but as far as going into the water, I don't go out deep into the water.

Ving Rhames

Sayings About A Fish #83162
#70. The Fulton Fish Market will be more of an odor than a landmark at this time of day, but it really swings out at four o'clock in the morning - another Timothy 'Speed' Levitch recommendation if you can't sleep and you like fish.

Timothy Levitch

Sayings About A Fish #84878
#71. We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love. I imagine the fish out of water is the only fish to have an inkling of water.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Sayings About A Fish #85120
#72. Give a man a fish
and a kettle,
and he may never feel its HIS kettle of fish.
Teach a man to fish around for his OWN kettle,
and that's when you get
a tasty home-made fish soup
that everyone can enjoy!

Cameron Semmens

Sayings About A Fish #86175
#73. The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?

Lee Wulff

Sayings About A Fish #86424
#74. All women live in objectification the way fish live in water. - Catharine A. MacKinnon WHEN

Jessica Valenti

Sayings About A Fish #87271
#75. Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future generations can experience the bliss of breathing clean crisp air, while fishing in the Adirondacks ... and being able to eat the fish afterwards.

Gloria Reuben

Sayings About A Fish #87515
#76. There's all that brain work involved, remembering all those lines in a script. I find I have to eat a lot of fish, late - but not too late - in the afternoon. Doing theatre, you need to be like an athlete in training.

Jerry Hall

Sayings About A Fish #88354
#77. She still wanted to slap something. Or throw something. The fish offered a tempting target but, before she could figure out who would fly across the room best, she heard the front door open and a man speaking to Tina.

Susan Mallery

Sayings About A Fish #93843
#78. Go and see whether the Doctor is about,' said Jack, 'and if he is, ask him to look in, when he has a moment.'
Which he is in the fish-market, turning over some old-fashioned lobsters. No. I tell a lie. That is him, falling down the companion-way and cursing in foreign.

Patrick O'Brian

Sayings About A Fish #94601
#79. Fisherman looks for the fish in the middle of a mysterious misty lake; mankind looks for the meaning of life in the middle of a mysterious cold space!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sayings About A Fish #96637
#80. A seagull flying beautifully is heaven; a seagull hunting an innocent fish is hell! Existence is heaven and hell, joy and horror!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sayings About A Fish #97713
#81. Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don't, they're going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul.

Russell Simmons

Sayings About A Fish #99999
#82. It was really weird when I heard my voice coming out of a fish.

Alexander Gould

Sayings About A Fish #101642
#83. For this form of fishing (with a wet fly), the rod is no longer a shooting machine but a receiving post, with super-sensitive antennae, capable of registering immediately the slightest reaction of the fish to the fly.

Charles Ritz

Sayings About A Fish #102008
#84. I just like The Little Mermaid cartoon. Say what you want. I have a fish tank, it's a long story. I have a fascination with the ocean, and you put a hot chick in there, it just adds more to it! I liked The Little Mermaid. It's a cool movie. It's one of those I watch over and over again.

Gabriel Iglesias

Sayings About A Fish #105639
#85. I go to Alaska and fish salmon. I do some halibut fishing, lake fishing, trout fishing, fly fishing. I look quite good in waders. I love my waders. I don't think there is anything sexier than just standing in waders with a fly rod. I just love it.

Linda Hamilton

Sayings About A Fish #106117
#86. Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.

Carl Sandburg

Sayings About A Fish #106243
#87. What a strange joy it was to talk, to fish gleefully into the past and fling its fragments about us, with the unfailing aroma of pleasantness that pasts always seem to possess!

Anne Bosworth Greene

Sayings About A Fish #106539
#88. English literature is a flying fish.

E. M. Forster

Sayings About A Fish #107421
#89. But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people - men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.

Amy Tan

Sayings About A Fish #107908
#90. I'm a fish swimming by Ray. Catch me if you want me.

Janet Fitch

Sayings About A Fish #108190
#91. A dead fish can float with the stream, but it takes a man to swim against it." What

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sayings About A Fish #110454
#92. I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.

Elbert Hubbard

Sayings About A Fish #113797
#93. I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild music, and I'm gonna dive in and find as many fish as I can and catch them all. I love music.

Phil Anselmo

Sayings About A Fish #114247
#94. Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it.

Laozi

Sayings About A Fish #117021
#95. My longtime friend Steven Steinbock, who has worked with me for more than thirty years, is a master at panfrying fish and seafood.

Tom Douglas

Sayings About A Fish #117388
#96. Tas had been teasing Flint unmercifully all morning, calling him "Seamaster" and "Shipmate" asking him the price of fish, and how much he would charge to Ferry them back across the lake. Flint finally threw a rock at him, and Tennis sent ass down to the lake to scrub out the pans.

Margaret Weis

Sayings About A Fish #117805
#97. I like to fish. Fishing is always a way of relaxing.

Tom Felton

Sayings About A Fish #118224
#98. I left Sudan when I was 25 or 26 years old. If I had stayed, I would never have ended up being an entrepreneur. You can have the qualities, but if you don't have the environment, you just wither away. It's like a fish: take it out of water, it will not survive.

Mo Ibrahim

Sayings About A Fish #119380
#99. But for those who need a system, Chuang Tzu offers the reminder that the fish trap is only needed to catch the fish; once the fish is caught the fish trap is no longer needed so much the better if the fish can be caught without the trap.

Ray Grigg

Sayings About A Fish #119439
#100. Barbara began to imagine the pretty girls working in Derry and Toms as beautiful tropical fish in a tank, swimming up and down, up and down, in serene disappointment, with nowhere to go and nothing to see that they hadn't seen a million times before.

Nick Hornby

Sayings About A Fish #120144

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