Top 100 Trout's Quotes
#1. Oh, Mr. Trout," nice Milo went on, there in Trout's suite, "teach us to sing and dance and laugh and cry. We've tried to survive so long on money and sex and envy and real estate and football and basketball and automobiles and television and alcohol - on sawdust and broken glass!
Anonymous
#2. Dwayne Hoover's and Kilgore Trout's country, where there was still plenty of everything, was opposed to Communism. It didn't think that Earthlings who had a lot should share it with others unless they really wanted to, and most of them didn't want to. So they didn't have to. ***
Kurt Vonnegut
#3. Jesus
if Kilgore Trout could only write! Rosewater exclaimed. He had a point: Kilgore Trout's unpopularity was deserved. His prose was frightful. Only his ideas were good.
Kurt Vonnegut
#4. When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat. Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!
John Gay
#5. Really, it's amazing. You are his other half, Alexandria, You are fated to be with him. You belong to him."
It felt like something sat heavy on my chest. "Oh.Oh.No."
Seth frowned at me. "You don't have to sound so disgusted.
Jenny Trout
#8. It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.
Lady Gregory
#10. Build me a cabin in Utah
Marry me a wife, catch rainbow trout
Have a bunch of kids who call me "Pa"
That must be what it's all about
That must be what it's all about
Bob Dylan
#11. Sometimes nature can take its course and shove it. Our commitment to protecting our cat or dog is life-long and sadly, sometimes, that includes protection from discomfort and pain, even if, in the vet's opinion, this means euthanasia.
Nick Trout
#12. Trout asked him what it had felt like to work for an industry whose business was to destroy the countryside, and the old man said he was usually too tired to care.
Anonymous
#13. Steve Fister is a great guitar player. He's ROCKIN'!!
Walter Trout
#14. I got a waterbed, but my husband stocked it with trout.
Joan Rivers
#15. Like most science-fiction writers, Trout knew almost nothing about science, was bored stiff by technical details.
Kurt Vonnegut
#16. The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick is determined to get along with trout fishermen.
Gordon MacQuarrie
#17. Trout was deflated - neutralized. He dropped his arms, became child-like now.
Kurt Vonnegut
#18. As an old, old man, Trout would be asked by Dr. Thor Lembrig, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, if he feared the future. He would give this reply: 'Mr. Secretary-General, it is the past which scares the bejesus out of me.
Kurt Vonnegut
#19. Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.
Robert Trout
#20. What pretty bright trout there are in this bold rock creek! It would full be called a river in England, and so it is!
Thaddeus Norris
#21. The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption.
Robert Trout
#22. It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.
George Eliot
#23. I just keep thinking about putting up good numbers, playing hard and winning games.
Mike Trout
#24. I used to get made fun of in the minor leagues. I'd be 0 for 2, and then in my last at-bat I'd hit a chopper that wouldn't even reach the shortstop, and I'd get a hit out of it. The guys would be all over me, but a hit's a hit. I'll take 3,000 of 'em.
Mike Trout
#25. The old drunk told me about trout fishing. When he could talk, he had a way of describing trout as if they were a precious and intelligent metal.
Richard Brautigan
#26. Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.
James M. Barrie
#27. It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.
William Butler Yeats
#28. This argument is not the barrel of drugged trout that Methodological Descriptivism was, but it's still vulnerable to objections.
David Foster Wallace
#29. There are many reasons why so many of us choose to share our lives with a pet
it's the perfect antidote for loneliness, providing an endless supply of smiles and the certainty of unwavering companionship, and many of us have seen the way a pet can make a family feel whole.
Nick Trout
#30. That's what happens with Millennials. They're so used to getting participation ribbons and trophies for losing, they think everything is owed to them. They're ungrateful.
Jenny Trout
#31. The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.
Robert Trout
#32. Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: Make me young, make me young, make me young!
Kurt Vonnegut
#33. No curfew. I live in the basement. I got everything I need. Home cooking ... it's awesome.
Mike Trout
#34. Such avian silence is punctuated only by the occasional plunk of a trout sinking an ovipositioning daddy longlegs, and the hysterical cackle of a Mallard that finally gets last night's joke.
Bruce Beckham
#35. Flyfishing does have its social aspects - on some of our crowded trout streams it can get too social - but esentially it's a solitary, contemplative sport. People are left alone with themselves in beautiful surroundings to try to accomplish something that seems to have genuine value.
John Gierach
#36. You want to know why I don't have AIDS, why I'm not HIV-positive like so many other people? I don't fuck around. It's as simple as that. Trout
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#37. Well, the way you'd been, old lady
I could see the fear in your windows
Under your furry crawling brow
A silver bow rings up in inches
You were afraid you'd be the devil's red wife
But it's alright, God dug your dance
And would have you young and in his harum
Don Van Vliet
#38. Mike Trout is unbelievable. He's one of the best players in baseball right now, if not the best.
Bryce Harper
#39. If I'd had a bazooka, I could have blown a hole in the wall between us. If I hadn't killed one or both of us, I could have asked you, 'What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like that?'
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#40. The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.
Robert Trout
#41. You know, there comes a time in everyone's life when they have to carefully examine the goals they've set for themselves. When they have to admit their limitations and look at their capibilities in a more realistic way.
Jenny Trout
#43. Renee: "Trout, get your mind out of the gutter."
Trout: "Can't help it - it's attached to my body.
John C. Stipa
#44. If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting and I like watching him.
Matt Kemp
#45. I'm not really a big Springsteen guy. I'll listen to the music, but ... I didn't really get attached to it as much as, like, country artists. That's really who I listen to.
Mike Trout
#46. The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.
Robert Trout
#47. What are more delightful than one's emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast?
Nash Buckingham
#48. Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#49. I think people keep baseballs in their cars, just to be prepared in case they see me. It's cool to get recognized in public; it's an incredible feeling.
Mike Trout
#50. Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in!
John Wolcot
#51. On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.
Thomas Jefferson
#52. I remember mistaking an old woman for a trout stream in Vermont, and I had to beg her pardon.
Richard Brautigan
#53. The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.
John Gierach
#54. I can't tell if you're serious or not,' said the driver.
I won't know myself until I find out if life is serious or not,' said Trout. 'It's dangerous, I know, and it can hurt a lot. That doesn't necessarily mean it's serious, too.
Kurt Vonnegut
#55. The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.
Theodore Gordon
#56. Like a rainbow trout in a stream, the girl sometimes flashed her true self to him.
Eowyn Ivey
#57. In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers.
Robert Trout
#58. But one-hundred-million customers can't be wrong, can they?
Jenny Trout
#59. If this was one of those books, there would now be three pages of head-banging sex. The reality was that he pulled me close, whispered, 'Mfhbnnntx,' and I pulled his arm over me like a cover and muttered, 'Trout,' and that was pretty much it.
Jodi Taylor
#60. 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
#61. The first couple of years in the minors were tough for me. My numbers were there, but being away from home so young was tough.
Mike Trout
#62. So when I'm up here it feeds, for lack of a better word, nostalgia about my youth. Some people get that way when they see a baseball field or smell trout on the grill. I get that feeling from vertigo and the Freudian fantasy of falling to my certain death on the pavement.
Shane Kuhn
#63. 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
#64. The truth is that trout fishermen scheme and lie and toss in their sleep. They dream of great dripping trout, shapely and elusive as mermaids, and arise cranky and haggard from their fantasies. They are moody and neglectful and all of them a little daft. Moreover they are inclined to drink too much.
John D. Voelker
#65. The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.
Robert Trout
#66. A brown trout sips one off the surface. Beneath the trout, mica-flecked sand gleams white. Come fall the female's caudal fin will nudge the grains to make a nest, the eggs spilling like pearls into a purse.
Ron Rash
#67. Goal: Clean air, clean clear-running rivers, the presence of Pelican and Osprey and Gray Whale in our lives; salmon and trout in our streams; unmuddied language and good dreams.
Gary Snyder
#68. Can I have a glass of water?" Her voice was hoarse, probably from screaming. She'd always sounded like that after they'd-
He didn't just force the thought aside. He clubbed it unconscious, threw it into a crawl space and walled it up alive.
Jenny Trout
#71. Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.
Thomas McGuane
#72. The fish was a twelve-inch rainbow trout with a huge hump on its back. A hunchback trout.
Richard Brautigan
#73. On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.
Arnold Gingrich
#74. Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies!
Jennifer Armintrout
#75. Trout might have said, and it can be said of me as well, that he created caricatures rather than characters. His animus against so-called mainstream literature, moreover, wasn't peculiar to him. It was generic among writers of science fiction.
Kurt Vonnegut
#76. The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.
Robert Trout
#77. As Trout departed, he sent this telepathic message to the Creator of the Universe, serving as His eyes and ears and conscience: Am headed for Forty-second Street now. How much do you already know about Forty-second Street?
Kurt Vonnegut
#78. Let me note that Kilgore Trout and I have never used semicolons. They don't do anything, don't suggest anything. They are transvestite hermaphrodites.
Kurt Vonnegut
#79. See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
#80. A terrible silence fell in the room. Bill Ireton looked suddenly sober as a trout.
Patricia Highsmith
#81. Trout said this about all the stories he had torn to pieces and flushed down toilets or tossed into trash-strewn vacant lots, or whatever: 'Easy come, easy go.
Kurt Vonnegut
#82. Here I find the true nature of the tree - not in the bulk of its shape but in the way its form alters my vision of the world.
Stefanie Brook Trout
#83. There was a code, and though it was mostly unspoken, I absorbed it early on. You always put all the trout back in the water alive except for a few to eat. You didn't count your trout or call attention to their size or weight. You took time to watch and enjoy seeing your partners catch trout.
Howard Frank Mosher
#84. The fork fell from my fingers, splatterng mashed potatoes across the table. I mustered my best "ice princess" look at met his gaze. "You're in my personal space, buddy.
Jenny Trout
#85. If you have an approach that makes money, then money management can make the difference between success and failure ... I try to be conservative in my risk management. I want to make sure I'll be around to play tomorrow. Risk control is essential.
Monroe Trout
#86. When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.
Joseph Monninger
#87. The pool was but a stone's throw from the house, and I arrived there in a few minutes, only to find a boy disturbing the water by dredging it with a worm. Him I lured away with a cake of chocolate ... Every day I see the head of the largest trout I ever hooked, but did not land.
Theodore Gordon
#88. If I'm working as an engineer for another band, the responsibility for brilliance pretty much rests on their shoulders. I think I'm pretty good, but I'm not good enough to turn a trout into a sausage, or the other way around.
Steve Albini
#89. Once he paused near a small stream to watch a dipper bob up and down on a rock. He saw a school of trout lurking in a shady place where a branch hung low on the water. No amount of seeing ever made nature old to him, and he was conscious of every movement and sound.
Louis L'Amour
#90. They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand scheme of things, and suddenly they're just not such a big deal anymore.
John Gierach
#91. Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.
Kurt Vonnegut
#92. Do you want to die, or do you want to die trying? Give up or give it a shot.
Nick Trout
#93. Keep your head on the ball. You've got to hit it first, then look where it goes. People get in trouble when they look for where the ball's going, and they haven't even hit it yet.
Mike Trout
#94. A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.
Robert Hughes
#95. What happened to your face?"
"What happened to yours?" I retorted. "You look like a damn Oompa Loompa. You should lay off the spray tanning, Lea.
Jenny Trout
#96. Growing up, I was such a picky eater. I'm finally starting to expand.
Mike Trout
#97. Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed.
John Gierach
#98. You pout like a trout in a drought ... can't get out.
You want to scream, but fish can't shout.
MF Grimm
#99. Hoping that he might peek through a gap in the fance and see that Patch was really a big softy, all bark and no bite, or, as they sometimes say in England, "All mouth and no trousers"!
Nick Trout
#100. Love is a myth.'
'Love is a myth,' Grandfather Trout said. 'Like summer.'
'What?'
'In winter,'Grandfather Trout said, 'summer is a myth. A report, a rumor. Not to be believed in. Get it? Love is a myth. So is summer.
John Crowley
