Voelker Quotes

#1. And Johannes Voelker is the last man on Earth I'd choose as a spiritual director for Sandoz, he thought. Shit or get off the pot, my son.

Mary Doria Russell

#2. Praise lies upon a higher plain than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle around myself to some extent. But in praise my soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration, seeing and praising only the majesty and power of God, His grace and redemption

Ole Hallesby

#3. One of the first rules in fishing is that there are few rules in fishing that resourceful trout do not manage to break.

John D. Voelker

#4. I'm a fisherman who likes to observe and tell yarns, and so I told stories about things that I knew about.

John D. Voelker

#5. Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.

John D. Voelker

#6. Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as well as among the most frustrating and humiliating.

John D. Voelker

#7. I think people have this stereotypical idea in their head of what a nerd is. People have said to me before, "You're not a nerd!" because I think they think of the classic Revenge Of The Nerds archetype.

Chris Hardwick

#8. A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs.

John D. Voelker

#9. Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.

John D. Voelker

#10. So I couldn't just pack my blue IKEA sack and go - I had to do the right thing. I had to preserve what was left of the goodness in my soul. But for the record, this was exactly why I never wanted to have friends. So much for being an island. Thanks

Camille Perri

#11. The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.

John D. Voelker

#12. Christ does not inhabit buildings or a certain atmosphere; in fact, the very heavens cannot contain Him. Rather, He is manifested through our obedient, sanctified bodies-His temples.

David Wilkerson

#13. I edit my own stories to death. They eventually run and hide from me.

Jeanne Voelker

#14. There is no subsititue for fishing sense, and if a man doesn't have it, verily, he may cast like an angel and still use his creel largely to transport sandwiches and beer

John D. Voelker

#15. Buying a fly rod in the average city store, that is, joining it up and safely waggling it a bit, is much like seeing a woman's arm protruding from a car window: all one can readily be sure of is that the window is open.

John D. Voelker

#16. During my addled career as a trout fisherman I have gone on a lot of wild-goose chases, and I ruefully expect to go on a lot more before I hang up my waders

John D. Voelker

#17. Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife.

John D. Voelker

#18. I was a closet stutterer.

John Stossel

#19. That grace is having a commitment to - or at least an acceptance of - being ineffective and foolish.

Anne Lamott

#20. Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.

Alfred Adler

#21. That's how he feels right now, he thinks, kneeling beside her, rinsing her hair: as though his love for his daughter will outstrip the limits of his body. The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane.

Anthony Doerr

#22. It will happen and I will be right there in the moment so don't wait me!

Deyth Banger

#23. I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

John D. Voelker

#24. There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them.

John D. Voelker

#25. I'm borderline addicted to HGTV. It's not healthy.

R.S. Grey

#26. To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.

John D. Voelker

#27. I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.

John D. Voelker

#28. Every Halloween I missed being a kid, getting to dress up and eat tons of candy. The only thing I got to do now was ... eat tones of Candy. Not half bad

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#29. Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed

John D. Voelker

#30. First you jump in, then you swim.

Jeanne Voelker

#31. Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness ... the greed, the hate all around us.

John D. Voelker

#32. 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