Fishes Quotes · Page 20

New York is where you go to catch a big fish.

— Jessica Cutler

It was beautiful in a harsh I'm-going-to-gut-you-like-a-fish kind of way.

— Rick Riordan

Place gifts of silver in our hands. Give us this day our daily fish.

— Pablo Neruda

I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.

— Douglas Hofstadter

The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

When you bait the hook with your heart, the fish always bite.

— John Burroughs

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

— William Shakespeare

Better a days catch of fish than a lifetime of crabs.

— Phil Robertson

If you want to convince the world that a fish can sense your emotions, only one statistical measure will suffice: the p-value.

— Charles Seife

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on…

— Osbert Sitwell

The fish are naked. The fish are always awake. They are the color of old spoons and caramels.

— Anne Sexton

Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed…

— Stephen King

In ten years [i.e., 1980] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string,…

— Samuel Johnson

You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish.

— Grant Wood

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

— Arthur Ransome

It was easy to make fun of Bush, but it was sort of like shooting fish in a barrel and it didn't…

— Roy Blount, Jr

It is no doubt technically possible to study metabolism and respiration of fishes during swimming at a constant rate, and of certain…

— August Krogh

To take advantage of the last precious minutes, you've got to stay afield as late as the birds do, regardless of a…

— Havilah Babcock

Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one there to…

— Haruki Murakami

Piscary killed people, but he didn’t have the concept of pity or remorse. It would be like telling a shark he was…

— Kim Harrison

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But…

— Rabindranath Tagore

How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the…

— Aldo Leopold

If you want to catch more fish, more often, take luck out of your fishing equation and replace it with knowledge of…

— Tony Bishop

You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young…

— Hermann Hesse

Once upon a time you were a fish. How do you know? Because I was also a fish. You, too? Sure. A…

— Nicole Krauss

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth,…

— Ernest Hemingway

The Jews celebrate Passover by eating unpalatable food to remind them what will happen to their people if they ever leave New…

— Jon Stewart

What a shame that Christianity had come here!If the white man had not intruded where he was not wanted, where he did…

— Margaret Craven

If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to…

— Tom Robbins

My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make?…

— Masa Takayama

Anyhow, there simply isnt enough room in the museums Fishes Hall, so weve decided to pretend to the public that a whale…

— Gideon Defoe

Street Photography is like fishing. Catching the fish is more exciting than eating it.

— Thomas Leuthard

There are so many fishes in the sea. Do not settle until you have found your mermaid.

— James

Knowledge does not keep any better than fish.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.

— Arnold Gingrich

Theres so many fish in the sea That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury

— Elvis Costello

The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.

— Ralph Linton

Dont give a child a fish but show him how to fish

— Anonymous

Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.

— Izaak Walton