Top 100 Water Fish Quotes
#1. Don't drink the water, fish fuck in it
Ade Bozzay
#2. Oily, cold-water fish from remote, pollution-free waters (anchovies, herring, mackerel, salmon, sardines) are some of the most nutrient-rich foods on the planet: no other food comes close to their omega-3 levels.
Mark Sisson
#3. It is a strange paradox: Humans drown in the water, fish drown in the land.
Javad Alizadeh
#4. I never drink water ... fish f**k in it.
W.C. Fields
#5. They did not know that the quicker a fresh-water fish is on the fire after he is caught the better he is;
Mark Twain
#7. In order to see a fish you must watch the water
Bodhidharma
#8. [T]he last thing a fish notices is water.
David Allen
#9. It was the hardest year of my life. It was humbling. I was a fish out of water.
Warren Sapp
#10. The Pike is the meanest and most vicious of fresh-water fishes. This is caused by heredity and environment, or unfortunate social conditions in the water.
Will Cuppy
#11. Breathing in Shepelevo was like hitting the right note on the piano. There was only one note. When I was young, Shepelevo was the smell of nettles, of salted smoked fish, of fresh water from the Gulf of Finland, and of burning firewood, all wrapped up in one Shepelevo.
Paullina Simons
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing, In my veins, in my bones I feel it,- The small water seeping upward, The tight grains parting at last. When sprouts break out, Slippery as fish, I quail, lean to beginnings, sheath-wet.
Theodore Roethke
#16. To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.
John C. Hawkes
#17. Fish play in the water
birds play in the sky
ordinary beings play on the earth
sublime beings play in display.
Thinley Norbu
#18. The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.
Prince William
#19. 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
#20. The great fish moved silently through the night water.
Peter Benchley
#21. 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
#22. All women live in objectification the way fish live in water. - Catharine A. MacKinnon WHEN
Jessica Valenti
#23. Fish is meant to tempt as well as nourish, and everything that lives in water is seductive.
Jean-Paul Aron
#24. 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
#25. When you sing, think of birds. When you dance, think of fish (Or snakes. Doesn't matter.). When you play music, think of water, and when you act, think of god.
Katie Waitman
#26. Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness. But he's also funny as hell, and he's so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff, he's so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way.
Tom Hiddleston
#28. We must treat ideas somewhat as though they were baby fish. Throw thousands out into the waters. Only a handful will survive but that is plenty.
Anne Heywood
#29. The most important thing is to get the fish in quickly and leave it in the water. Forget the hero pose.
Yvon Chouinard
#30. I love the water more than anything. I'm not very good at sunbathing - I get really bored. I love swimming and I love being like a fish and getting in the sea and just - I don't know, it feels right.
Beth Orton
#31. A nothing day full of wild beauty ... Little fish stream by, a river in water.
James Schuyler
#32. A fish cannot be aware of the ocean, before jumping up out of water.
Rixa White
#33. If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no arable land, no fish, you have nothing. Money is a 'nothing' thing.
Jacque Fresco
#34. For the past eight hours, I've been about as helpful as a fish out of water. Or a fish in water, because what the fuck do fish really offer to society?
Elle Kennedy
#35. Catching fish is secondary to the immeasurable joys of the watery world.
Fennel Hudson
#36. If you aren't a fisher you'll see many things, but the river, except where it is ridden by waterfowl or waded by moose, will rarely enter your thoughts, much less stimulate your spirit. It's different if you fish. The surface of the water tells a story ...
Paul Schullery
#37. Remembrance is to the heart what water is to the fish. And what is the state of a fish that leaves water?
Ibn Taymiyyah
#38. He had never seen fly-fishing like this before. There were wet flies, and there were dry flies, but this fly augured into the water with a saw-toothed whine and dragged the fish out backwards.
Terry Pratchett
#39. The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling
Kabir
#40. When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
Caitriona Balfe
#42. I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.
Ivan Turgenev
#43. Soil with a lot of manure in it produces abundant crops; water that is too clear has no fish. Therefore, enlightened people should maintain the capacity to accept impurities and should not be solitary perfectionists.
Zicheng Hong
#44. A fish is a genius in water.
An eagle is a genius in air.
A fox is a genius on land.
A sage is a genius in life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#45. When I'm not around you that is when I feel breathless. I liken it to being a fish, and you are my water. When I'm not around you, I feel as though I cannot breathe. And you have to understand the irony in that because I've never in my entire existence ever needed to.
S.L. Naeole
#46. If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
Doris Lessing
#47. I have never played anything live - except for a few special occasions - from 'Fish Out of Water.'
Chris Squire
#48. Fish live in water. Men die in it.Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
Zhuangzi
#49. Yes, and you've never been able to understand the suggestiveness of paradox and contradiction. That's your problem. You live and breathe paradox and contradiction, but you can no more see the beauty of them than the fish can see the beauty of the water
Michael Frayn
#51. Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.
J.G. Ballard
#52. A fish cannot drown in water,
A bird does not fall in air.
In the fire of creation,
God doesn't vanish:
The fire brightens.
Each creature God made
must live in its own true nature;
How could I resist my nature,
That lives for oneness with God?
Mechthild Of Magdeburg
#53. I've recovered my tenderness by long looking;
I'm a Socrates of small fury.
The waves bends with the fish. I'm taught
As water teaches stone. Believe me, extremest oriole,
I can hear light on a dry day.
The world is where we fling it; I'm leaving where I am.
Theodore Roethke
#54. Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.
J.M. Coetzee
#55. I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.
Anthony Doerr
#56. I grew up in Southern California, and I particularly did not fit in. I always felt like a fish out of water in my hometown because everyone was very happy, and I was thinking about death and anxiety, and not many other people around me seemed to be thinking about that.
Rachel Bloom
#57. Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful.
David Lynch
#58. We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our atmosphere. If we inhibit our breathing we isolate ourselves from the medium in which we exist. In all Oriental and mystic philosophies, the breath holds the secret to the highest bliss.
Alexander Lowen
#59. The sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water
Virginia Woolf
#60. I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.
Warren Buffett
#61. The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
Eric Butterworth
#62. The gentle outlast the strong The obscure outlast the obvious Hence, a fish that ventures from deep water is soon snagged by a net A country that reveals its strength is soon conquered by an enemy
Lao-Tzu
#63. I was enamored of New York City intellectual life and was really into Philip Roth because I was raised by self-loathing Midwesterners who were from southern Illinois, who felt like fish out of water when they came to the East Coast when I was a kid.
Meghan Daum
#64. In the river swam the gleaming fish, which were meant for water, just as humankind is meant for love.
David Paul Kirkpatrick
#65. Fish deserve to be caught for they are lazy. Two million years of evolution and they still haven't got out of the water.
Simon Munnery
#66. The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.
Rabindranath Tagore
#67. They would hit a man in the water, if they were hungry, even if the man had no smell of fish blood nor of fish slime on him.
"Ay," the old man said. "Galanos. Come on galanos.
Ernest Hemingway,
#68. He thrashed like a freshly caught fish as the sucking sounds of draining water gurgled from the pooling blood in his mouth.
Michiko Katsu
#69. I never really felt at home with that - the headbands, the roses, the feet, the peace sign, all that bollocks. That wasn't me at all; I felt like a fish totally out of water during the mid-'60s thing.
Jeff Beck
#70. Consider the concepts referred to in the words 'where', 'when', 'why', 'being', to the elucidation of which innumerable volumes of philosophy have been devoted. We fare no better in our speculations than a fish which should strive to become clear as to what is water.
Albert Einstein
#71. Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
Isaac Hayes
#72. The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some kinds of odour well, and is kind to sound - letting it travel several times faster than air will allow, but it inhibits other more personal kinds of communication.
Lyall Watson
#73. We have been getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks - water, hydrocarbons, forests, rivers, fish and arable land - and not by generating renewable flows.
Joseph J. Romm
#74. Asking someone in the media about liberal bias is like asking a fish about water. 'Huh, what are you talking about? Where is it?'
John Stossel
#75. Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!
Kabir
#76. Jonah's hair sprays water each time he flips around, in search of another fish. Droplets shimmer on his skin. He's really cute. And Hallelujah can't help but think about last night. About him liking her. He flashes her a smile, and something inside her swoons.
Kathryn Holmes
#77. Matthew Lowe is one of the great water men that I know. He's a surfer, a great water polo player. I think he's half fish.
Rob Lowe
#78. To use color well is as difficult as for a fish to pass from water to air or earth.
Andre Lhote
#79. A slippery fish, flashing scales in the water and a noble fighter on the line, but dull as lead at the bottom of the boat.
Michael David Lukas
#80. Of what is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?
Albert Einstein
#81. I express through my music my philosophy, my feelings, my passion, my dreams, my fears, my hopes, my wishes and my expectations. Without music, I would be mute, like a fish without water, like a bird without wings like a human being without air.
Ricardo Derose
#82. Throw a lucky man into water and he'll surface with a fish in his mouth.
Julian Tuwim
#83. He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.
Ovid
#84. I catch a flash of red-gold beneath the surface of the water, and realize that there are koi in the pond, massive, serene, and I wonder: are they dreams of fish, or fish who dream?
Sarah Monette
#85. In life as in water, when we curl up or flail we sink. When we spread and go still, we are carried by the largest sea of all: the sea of grace that flows steadily beneath the turmoil of events. And just as fish can't see the ocean they live in, we can't quite see the spirit that sustains us.
Mark Nepo
#86. A fish will not truly learn to enjoy water, without gasping for air.
Markus W. Lunner
#87. I try to understand, but all I hear is a river of words, rushing and thundering and pushing me beneath the surface. Now and then a word I know darts up like a sparkling fish, but then it's all dark moving water again.
Katherine Applegate
#88. Looking for yourself is like a thirsty fish looking for water.
Deepak Chopra
#89. Inside him, in a broth of blood and water, organs bumped softly, organically into one another, like fish in an aquarium.
Karan Mahajan
#90. We live in an ocean of words, but like a fish in water we are often not aware of it.
Stuart Chase
#91. Work is my recreation,
The play of faculty; a delight like that
Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish
In darting through the water,
Nothing more.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#92. I stepped from the air-conditioned compartment onto the station platform, and the motherly breath of the suburbs enfolded me. It smelt of lawn sprinklers and station wagons and tennis rackets and dogs and babies.
Sylvia Plath
#93. Widmerpool's face assumed a dramatic expression that made him look rather like a large fish moving swiftly through opaque water to devour a smaller one.
Anthony Powell
#94. Moreover, the more deeply a view is ingrained, the less likely we will see it as influencing us - or see it at all. If you want to know what water is, don't ask the fish.
(Kindle Locations 1550-1551)
Mitch Stokes
#95. We must keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers for all of our relatives - whether they have fins, roots, wings, or paws.
Winona LaDuke
#96. This wise old whiskery fish swims up to three young fish and goes, 'Morning, boys, how's the water?' and swims away; and the three young fish watch him swim away and look at each other and go, 'What the fuck is water?' and swim away.
David Foster Wallace
#97. My oldest son always wants to race. He's kind of like me and it now has carried over to the other two. They're all pretty competitive now. We do stuff in the pool. They're like fish in water. They go all over the place. They're kids. They like to play, have fun and compete with everything they do.
Steve Blake
#98. If I pass out face down in this water, will you fish me out?"
"Will you promise to call me Your Majesty?"
"Hell no."
"Then I'll have to think about it.
Ilona Andrews
#99. They excrete in the same water where they eat, and they eat in the semen-clouded water where they fornicate. Fish are disgusting.
Dean Koontz
#100. Be the fish that discovers the water and don't let the moment exceed her weakness
K.J. Kilton
