Mackerel Quotes:

There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Sea, Mackerel, Mass, Fish In The Sea, Herring

I buy smoked mackerel in a vain attempt at being healthy. I do actually really like it, and you don't have to cook it, which is handy.

- Jo Brand

source: "What's in your basket, Jo Brand?" by Chloe Diski, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2001.

topic: Healthy, Vain, Mackerel, Handy

All newspaper writers have heard that the stuff they compose today has an excellent chance of being used to wrap tomorrow's mackerel.

- Ira Berkow

topic: Stuff, Today, Chance, Mackerel, Wraps

Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.

- Norman Mailer

source: Norman Mailer (1992). “Advertisements for Myself”, p.519, Harvard University Press

topic: Girl, Running, Fishing, Whisky, Piers

Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!

- James L. Brooks

topic: Appreciation, Kids, Alive, Mackerel

The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.

- Vincent Van Gogh

source: Vincent van Gogh (1963). “Letters”, Atheneum Books for Young Readers

topic: Art, Taken, Mean, Mackerel

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

- Lewis Mumford

source: "The Culture of Cities". Book by Lewis Mumford. Introduction, 1938.

topic: Running, Art, Nature, Mackerel, City Life

What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows into an oak. Write fiction and you relinquish reason. You start with an acorn and you end up with a mackerel.

- Philip Roth

topic: Writing, Mind, Acorns, Oaks, Mackerel

That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unaging intellect.

- William Butler Yeats

source: "Sailing to Byzantium" l. 1 (1928)

topic: Death, Summer, Country, Mackerel, Byzantium

Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.

- Oliver Goldsmith

source: Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Essays”, p.3

topic: Perfect, May, Tables, Mackerel, Poignancy

For a hundred and fifty years, in the pasture of dead horses, roots of pine trees pushed through the pale curves of your ribs, yellow blossoms flourished above you in autumn, and in winter frost heaved your bones in the ground--old toilers, soil makers: O Roger, Mackerel, Riley, Ned, Nellie, Chester, Lady Ghost.

- Donald Hall

source: Donald Hall (1990). “Old and New Poems: Donald Hall”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Mackerel