Paul Schullery Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.”
-- Paul Schullery

Source : Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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“When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.”
-- Paul Schullery

Source : Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.126, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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“Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish.”
-- Paul Schullery

Source : Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.35, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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“I don't suppose I ever entirely release a fish. I may not eat it, but that does not mean I take nothing from it before I let it go.”
-- Paul Schullery

Source : Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.154, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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“The issue of imitation has always occupied fly fishers, and part of its endless attraction has been the imponderable uncertainty of how much it matters to the fish in the first place.”
-- Paul Schullery

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“As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.”
-- Paul Schullery

Source : Paul Schullery (2008). “Mountain Time: A Yellowstone Memoir”, p.4, UNM Press

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“Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as it is the challenge of catching trout.”
-- Paul Schullery

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“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

Source : Paul Schullery (2008). “Mountain Time: A Yellowstone Memoir”, p.21, UNM Press

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“If you keep at it long enough, one day you may witness some greater disturbance, some rushing breach of the water's surface so startling and violent and exhilarating that you too will suddenly, and always thereafter, believe in monsters.”
-- Paul Schullery

Source : Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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“The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.”

“Rent' was my first professional job, ever.”

“An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.”

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“The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.”

“Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.”

“Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.”

“I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.”

“That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.”

“I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.”

“But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery.”