The Fish Quotes
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If you cannot catch a fish, do not blame the sea.
— Greek Proverb
I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.
— Norman MacCaig
If you have a fish intelligence, you will be easily trapped in the net.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
To fish someone out of the men's loos.
— Jojo Moyes
The man who comes to take care of my piranhas told me that if I left West Ham he would kill all my fish.
— Paolo Di Canio
David Nugent tore up the Championship but he's gone to Portsmouth and he's a fish up a tree
— Paul Merson
When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach
— Peter Ustinov
I've always wanted to be able to hold my breath for like, ever, and swim in the water like a fish.
— Carlos Pena Jr.
We were staring at the origin of a piece of our own bodies inside this 375-million-year-old fish. We had a fish with a wrist.
— Neil Shubin
If you want to convince the world that a fish can sense your emotions, only one statistical measure will suffice: the p-value.
— Charles Seife
Every fish in the ocean is in danger.
— Paul Watson
Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.
— Carl Sandburg
I would give my lungs to the fish so
that they may rise out of the water
and feel the wind. — A.P. Sweet
that they may rise out of the water
and feel the wind. — A.P. Sweet
I think about sustainability all the time, whether it's with fish or farmers in Eastern Oregon.
— Tom Douglas
A fish is more valuable swimming in the sea maintaining the integrity of oceanic eco-systems than it is on anyone's plate.
— Paul Watson
The fish had kittens?
— William Ritter
Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.
— Hermann Hesse
EAT THE FISH, BITCH!
— Tracy Letts
My big fish must be somewhere.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.
— John Heywood
The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish ... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
I went to England for five months when I was in high school, by myself, so I did experience a bit of being the fish out of water.
— Jane Levy
We must sit on the rim
of the well of darkness
and fish for fallen light
with patience.
--Pablo Neruda — Wendy Brown-Baez
of the well of darkness
and fish for fallen light
with patience.
--Pablo Neruda — Wendy Brown-Baez
The truth is, fish have very little sex life. If you have ever tried to make love under water, you will know why.
— Ed Zern
The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish.
— Marianne Moore
I don't want to stockpile tuna fish and bullets. That's not the world I want to live in.
— Richard Martin
Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of.
— Henry Rollins
Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast.
In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish. — Ovid
In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish. — Ovid
If I don't fish in the morning, I fish in the evening.
— Deion Sanders
I wish it had been a dream now and that I had never hooked the fish and was alone in bed on the newspapers.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Just as a fish doesn't know it is wet, so companies often can't see or feel the very opportunities where they are swimming
— Pam Henderson
The fish adores the bait.
— George Herbert
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
Then we went skinny dippin' and did things that frighten the fish ...
Character, Shelby Eatonton, from the movie, Steel Magnolias. — Robert Harling
Character, Shelby Eatonton, from the movie, Steel Magnolias. — Robert Harling
We in America have gotten addicted to cheap food. The result of that is antibiotic-laden fish, foods that are bred to be portable.
— Ruth Reichl
The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air
— Rabindranath Tagore
The late bird gets the fish that got the worm.
— Brian Spellman
We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we figure out who polluted it.
— Shane Claiborne
Marine scientists predict that by 2050 there will be no more large fish left in the ocean if we don't change our relationship with the sea.
— Greg MacGillivray
If you catch poisonous fish, throw it back into the sea.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of fish we catch..
— Elliot W. Eisner
Then, quick, he flips the fish out onto the bank. It flops and gasps for air, its body slick.
We all watch the fish die. — Ally Condie
We all watch the fish die. — Ally Condie
When the last tree is cut, When the last river is emptied, When the last fish is caught, Only then will Man realize that he can not eat money.
— Eric Weiner
Birds and deer are a silly luxury, and all the fish should be floating.
— Chuck Palahniuk
The most important thing is to get the fish in quickly and leave it in the water. Forget the hero pose.
— Yvon Chouinard
I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.
— Douglas Hofstadter
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
I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned out to be fine.
— Emily Blunt
Nobody can legitimately claim to be a marine ecologist and conservationist while continuing to eat fish. It is the ultimate form of hypocrisy.
— Paul Watson
Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
One day, your beauty will manifest in someone's eye.
— Anthony Liccione
The people are like water and the army is like fish.
— Mao Zedong
The funny thing about the boy who gave away his loaves and fish is that he, too, ended the day with a full stomach.
— Mark Hart
She had the soft presence of a fish hook in the eye.
— Dana Marton
In the river swam the gleaming fish, which were meant for water, just as humankind is meant for love.
— David Paul Kirkpatrick
Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress it
— John Florio
The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.
— Dean Kamen
I chose you," he said simply. "All of the fish of me turned toward you at once.
— Catherynne M Valente
If you are a fish, stay away from the fishhook; if you are a lover, stay away from the suspicion.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They're just like dead fish washing up on the shores.
— Steve Jobs
I believe there's a job in the fish factory for me. That's enough to get me through every audition.
— Sophie Kennedy Clark
Just behind his jaw bones a tiny movement was perceptible, like the movement of gills in a fish.
— John Collier
People eat the chicken, people eat the beef, they still say, 'Don't kill the fish.'
— Nobu Matsuhisa
Love is the net where hearts are caught like fish.
— Muhammad Ali
As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish.
— Craig Brown
Under the sea, the fish eat us. I know, I know, oh, oh, oh.
— George R R Martin
You must have come from very far down," Alice says to the fish, "to have your own lantern.
— Ramona Ausubel
My problem is that I don't paint ambitiously. It's all catch and release - just tiny fish that aren't really worth the trouble to clean and cook.
— Bill Watterson
Go forth and mutilate fish.
— Janice Hardy
In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.
— Sri Yukteswar Giri
Beware of a client who's suing on principle and paying by the hour. He rarely gets his money's worth.
— Pete Morin
Why fish in the pond when you live right next to the sea?
— Matshona Dhliwayo
He turned it and turned it. They could see quite clearly in the fine tracery of its etchwork the words So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.
— Douglas Adams
Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.
— Roderick Haig-Brown
I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.
— Sylvia Earle
I was lucky to live in the 20th century, when gefilte fish could be purchased in a jar.
— Barbara "Cutie" Cooper
In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish.
— Ze'ev Chafets
There are many fish in the sea, but to catch the right one you need God's help.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
— Bodhidharma