quotes about Fishes
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My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.
-- Al Capp -
Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.
-- Algernon SidneySource : 'Discourses concerning Government' (1698) ch. 2, sect. 18
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The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.
-- Ali BabacanSource : "Joe Biden, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan Trade Boasts". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2011.
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Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
-- Andre Heller -
We don't know yet if it was the raw fish. We may never know the cause.
-- Ann Wright -
I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish.
-- Anna Kendrick -
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life.
-- Aristotle -
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The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.
-- Arnold Gingrich -
The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
-- Arthur Golden -
You want to save more fish? Eat more broccoli.
-- Barton Seaver -
An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature.
-- Bobby Flay -
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I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don't like eating fish.
-- Britney SpearsSource : "Did I say that?" compiled by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2008.
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I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.
-- Casey Affleck -
Well, it seems all the fish in the rivers are dying. Could this be an act of cod?
-- Colin Mochrie -
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I can really fish - I've been fishing since I was a kid.
-- Deion Sanders -
If I don't fish in the morning, I fish in the evening.
-- Deion Sanders -
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I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.
-- Douglas Hofstadter -
The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
-- Edmund Spenser -
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. EisnerSource : Elliot W. Eisner “Cognition and Curriculum Reconsidered”, Teachers College Press
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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
-- Eric Butterworth -
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The fish is the star of the plate.
-- Eric RipertSource : "'It's Not Me, It's the Oven'". Interview with Eve Gleichman, www.esquire.com. August 12, 2010.
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The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.
-- Eugene FieldSource : Eugene Field (2012). “A Little Book of Western Verse”, p.142, tredition
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I'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird.
-- Eva Le Gallienne -
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Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.
-- George Eliot -
I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.
-- Gordon Ramsay -
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Some men would rather be photographed with their fish than with their wives.
-- Gwen CooperSource : Gwen Cooper, Evelyn Haas (1989). “Wade a little deeper, dear: a woman's guide to fly fishing”, Lyons Press
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Marine protected areas, and particularly no-take zones, are very effective in allowing regeneration of fish stocks.
-- Helen Clark -
Do good and throw it in the sea; if God doesn't see it, the fishes will.
-- Helen Kieran Reilly -
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
-- Imelda Marcos -
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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 -
Angling is an Art... an art worth your learning.
-- Izaak Walton -
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The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.
-- Jacques Yves Cousteau -
If you’re too busy to duck hunt or catch fish, then you’re too busy.
-- Jase Robertson -
Fish is meant to tempt as well as nourish, and everything that lives in water is seductive.
-- Jean-Paul AronSource : Jean Paul Aron (1975). “Art of Eating in France: Manners and Menus in the 19th Century”, Peter Owen Publishers
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My friend Ed Begley goes fishing. It's a little smelly to me, I don't like it so much. I like to eat fish, but I don't like to catch them.
-- Jeff Goldblum -
Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries.
-- Jim Gerlach -
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There are plenty of fish in the sea, if I run out of women.
-- Joey ComeauSource : "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,
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If dolphins are so intelligent, how come they ain't got Walkmans?
-- John Lydon -
It`s corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head
-- Joseph Wambaugh -
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I felt like Eartha Kitt. I'm serving fish, honey, and this ain't trout.
-- Jujubee -
The shellfish thing is very scary. You have to know the people you buy from and exactly where their wholesalers are getting the fish from.
-- Julia Child -
It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.
-- Karl A. Menninger -
It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.
-- Kurt Cobain -
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When you were a tadpole and I was a fish In the Paleozoic time.
-- Langdon SmithSource : Langdon Smith (1922). “Poems of Evolution”
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
-- Lasse HallstromSource : "Soft-centred". Interview with David Eimer, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.
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If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.
-- Lech Walesa -
The fish you release maybe a gift to another, as it may have been a gift to you.
-- Lee Wulff -
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Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.
-- Lewis Carroll -
Only dead fish swim with the stream all of the time....
-- Linda Ellerbee -
That's what 90 percent of the people talk about when they're first exposed to the fish.
-- Mario Lopez -
One man's fish is another man's poisson.
-- Mark GatissSource : Mark Gatiss (2005). “Vesuvius Club”, p.36, Simon and Schuster
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How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.
-- Maxine Hong Kingston -
I turn over a lot of money for a lot of people and I'm the smallest fish in it
-- Michael Hutchence -
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The great fish moved silently through the night water.
-- Peter Benchley -
Better a days catch of fish than a lifetime of crabs.
-- Phil Robertson -
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The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems.
-- Poul AndersonSource : Poul Anderson (2015). “Harvest of Stars”, p.276, Open Road Media
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Human beings are still fish.
-- PZ MyersSource : YouTube Chanel "Living Waters"/ "Evolution vs. God", www.youtube.com. August 6, 2013.
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If you want to catch fish, don’t throw your net into the bathtub.
-- Reinhard Bonnke -
Fishes that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.
-- Richard LovelaceSource : 'To Althea, From Prison'
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Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.
-- Richard Wagner -
Empty the pond to get the fish.
-- Robert BressonSource : Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.44, New York Review of Books
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GE is the biggest polluter of the Hudson.. years ago they killed all the fish dumping millions of lbs. of pcb's into our waterways. Now let's make them pay for the cleanup.
-- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. -
You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick
-- Robin Hobb -
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I like working with fish, so naturally I like seafood.
-- Roy Yamaguchi -
If I were a man with gills, I would be a fish!
-- Ryan Stiles -
I was under the stars, like a fish is under water.
-- Shannon Hale -
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
-- St. Catherine of Siena -
The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
-- St. Catherine of Siena -
I prefer being a small fish in a big pond.
-- Stacy KeiblerSource : "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Stacy Keibler", www.esquire.com. March 2, 2011.
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A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops.
-- Teresa MedeirosSource : Teresa Medeiros (2010). “The Devil Wears Plaid”, p.415, Simon and Schuster
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Live the Dream, Dream the Fish
-- The Irresistible ForceSource : Written on reverse of Dreamfish CD, 1993.
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I like to fish. Fishing is always a way of relaxing.
-- Tom Felton -
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life.
-- Unknown -
Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet.
-- Unknown -
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Michael Phelps is a beast. He's like a human fish. It's really impressive.
-- Nina AgdalSource : Source: www.marieclaire.com
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I am only happy when I am swimming like a fish.
-- Duke Kahanamoku -
People say 'go with the flow' but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish.
-- Roy Keane -