
Top 30 Strange Fish Quotes
#1. Sawbeaked epitome of bodiless Idea, tossed by gusts of ether, dive Through abstract mists and raid the sea of fact Eat rich strange fish, grow long bright feathers, press Form's flesh around thought's rib, and so derive From the act of beauty, beauty of the act.
Philip Jose Farmer
#2. A process of accretion. Barnacles growing on a wreck or a rock. I'd rather have a wreck than a ship that sails. Things attach themselves to wrecks. Strange fish find your wreck or rock to be a good feeding ground; after a while you've got a situation with possibilities.
Donald Barthelme
#3. The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish ...
Herbert Read
#4. What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not of the newest poor-John. A strange fish!
William Shakespeare
#5. Stamp-collectors are a strange, silent fish-like breed, of all ages, but only of the male sex; women, apparently, fail to see the peculiar charm of gumming bits of coloured paper into albums.
George Orwell
#6. She sat in a corner warm with sunlight, a copy of Home Notes open unread upon her knee, and watched the green meadows flying past while the business men in the carriage talked about news in the papers - awful, as usual - their golf, their gardeners, and the detective stories they were reading.
Stella Gibbons
#7. It is a strange paradox: Humans drown in the water, fish drown in the land.
Javad Alizadeh
#8. The grey city and its lost hearts force its way between myself and my healing.
Jeanette Winterson
#10. Caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a prophet's epiphanies.
Barbara Hurd
#11. I, serial number 30743, Major General Yitzhak Rabin, am a soldier in the army of peace.
Yitzhak Rabin
#12. My electric-blue-suitmate was an uninhibited vagina about town.
Tina Fey
#13. The unrecognized genius - that's an old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one - the genius recognized too well? ... That a great many men are poor fools who can't see the best - that's nothing. One can't get angry at that. But do you understand about the men who see it and don't want it?
Ayn Rand
#14. Things have value Because somebody buys them, Because somebody pays money; If you can find a buyer, Even a lie is worth a thousand yen.
Kobo Abe
#15. Life's a story don't you doubt. Bad times give you something to talk about.
Jeffrey Lewis
#16. It's hard to salvage jettisoned cargo and, if it is retrieved, it's usually irreparably damaged. And I fear that when you can afford to fish up the honor and virtue and kindness you've thrown overboard, you'll find they have suffered a sea change and not, I fear, into something rich and strange.
Margaret Mitchell
#17. When you dare to think about how huge the illegal drug business is in this country, you have to suspect that practically everybody has a steady buzz on,
Kurt Vonnegut
#18. I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible.
Erno Rubik
#19. One day Boudin said to me, 'Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.' I took his advice.
Claude Monet
#20. An Englishman was reflecting on the different words that people use for fish. 'Isn't it strange,' he said, 'that the French say le poisson, the Spanish say el pescado, and the English call it fish - which is what it is.'
Alexander McCall Smith
#21. I thought English is a strange language. Now I think French is even more strange. In France, their fish is poisson, their bread is pain, and their pancake is crepe. Pain and poison and crap. That's what they have every day.
Xiaolu Guo
#22. Then he began to pity the great fish that he had hooked. He is wonderful and strange and who knows how old he is, he thought.
Ernest Hemingway,
#23. I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.
Tim Berners-Lee
#24. As the barman's hand rose from beneath the bar, Cabal was filled with a presentiment and a strange foreboding that he hadn't felt since the last time he'd watched the nightmare corpse city of R'lyeh rise, effulgent with the ineffable and fetid with fish, rise from the depths of the Pacific.
Jonathan L. Howard
#25. The place where the prince of darkness reigns is a place of humiliation
Sunday Adelaja
#26. Like my grandmother he kept secrets the way other people kept fish. They were a hobby, a fascination, his underwater collection of the rare and the strange. Occasionally something would float up to the surface, unexpected, unexplained
Jeanette Winterson
#27. Even the vendors sitting on stools around the periphery work steadily at connection, nodding at potential buyers, like a sewing machine prodding its needle into the cloth.
Barbara Kingsolver
#28. 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
#29. What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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