Fish Quotes · Page 33

“Traditional angling is a mindset. So,have you set your mind?”

— Fennel Hudson

What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.

— Sylvia Earle

“I wonder if Seal got his name because it looks like his face was mauled by a Great White shark?”

— Jarod Kintz

Watching fish, like listening to music, can distract you in a good way.

— Marty Becker

Testing her sexuality, she thinks she's caught a beautiful fish, when in reality, she's netted a shark.

— Tammara Webber

If you're looking for a wonderful way to spend time, take up fishing.

— Anita Bryant

Do not stir up the water if you do not know how to catch fish.

— Vikrant Parsai

Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.

— Scott Lynch

“The shark's just a shark, right? No one calls it Jaws. It doesn't call itself Jaws. The film is called Jaws, the…

— jonathan trigell

The best largemouth bass fishing I've ever encountered was at Lake Huites, a vast impoundment on the outskirts of the Sierra Madre…

— Jonathan Miles

Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a…

— John Gierach

There's a lot behind it but when I get the odd day off, I fish simple. I'm not a specialist at it…

— Phil Foden

“A child fish asks mother fish, 'Mother, why cannot we live on the Earth?' Mother fish replied, 'Dear… it is not the…

— Santosh Kalwar

“I welcomed the circling sharks but they avoided me as if knowing I preferred their teeth to the chains around my neck…

— Toni Morrison

“Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in…

— George Eliot

It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the…

— Nicolas Chamfort

(Lake) Lanier is a good fishing lake. Everybody tells me I put my dock on the best fishing hole in the lake.…

— Luke Appling

“I realize belatedly that sending sharks to the aid of humans is a stupid idea. When one of the men tries to…

— Anna Banks

“The five of us followed her to a shallow pool. A few feet away was the shark tank. It looked a lot…

— Melissa Jensen

Bishop on "At the Fishhouses"At the last minute, after I'd had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton, I…

— Elizabeth Bishop

There's always going to be the cooler-clubbers who are going to harvest a lot of fish, but I think the hard-core bass…

— Philip K. Chapman

I’m not much of a fly tier. I can do it—my friend calls it 'ham and eggs tying'—and I tie some cool…

— Jack Ohman

I'm a blowfish. I'm not a shark, I'm a blowfish. So that perfect example about me hitting my head [he walked into…

— Kanye West

For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests. It's hard to overstate the destruction. Ninety percent…

— Dan Barber

“If you swim with sharks, make sure you have the appetite of a whale.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

The books all say that barracuda rarely eat people, but very few barracuda can read.

— Dave Barry

A pelican that is wet walks with a gated limp, but a dry fish swims alone.

— Bill Cosby

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.

— Washington Irving

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

— Thomas Jefferson

“It's not about the number of fishes in the sea, it's about "the fish" you want to catch!”

— Jum Jumms

“Similarly, take the time to get into shape so you can get to that great spot and be able to fish it…

— Kirk Deeter

“Threshers were large sharks who could stun prey with their tails.”

— Daryl Gregory

Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness

— John McPhee

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

— Ernest Hemingway

“How she loved a man who would fit his life around the seasoning needs of a fish.”

— Susan May Warren

Only the gamefish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down.

— Ogden Nash

Sharks aren't the bad guys. If some stranger entered my house in just a Speedo, I would attack him too..

— Alisa Gattus

“The distance a goldfish swims is not controlled by the bowl.”

— Les Coleman

Awards shows... I just feel like a fish out of water at those things.

— Jesse Plemons

“Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day, give him some horns and he can be a…

— Josh Stern