quotes about Goldfish
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There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.
-- Beryl Markham -
Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.
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In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more.
-- Emily WatsonSource : "This much I know: Emily Watson". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2012.
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I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
-- Henri Matisse -
If beer got any lighter you could raise goldfish in it.
-- Jerry Adler -
Starlets were always turning up dead in people's pools. They fished them out like goldfish. Nobody seemed to find it unusual that so many young, beautiful women wanted to die.
-- Jonathan RosenSource : Jonathan Rosen (2010). “Eve's Apple: A Novel”, p.72, Macmillan
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We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.
-- Kingman Brewster, Jr.Source : Lecture in St George's Chapel, Windsor, England, May 5, 1978.
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I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.
-- Lefty Gomez -
Life isn’t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)
-- Mark Billingham -
I've watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I've seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis. And I had a golden retriever behave like one.
-- N.D. Wilson -
I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.
-- Paul RuddSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one. I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.
-- Princess MargaretSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.
-- Princess Margaret -
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup-they all die. So do we.
-- Robert Fulghum -
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I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.
-- Robert Plant -
Life isn’t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)
-- Mark Billingham