Fishes Quotes · Page 40

A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?

— Elizabeth Gilbert

If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

— Frank Herbert

Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw…

— Neal Barnard

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

— Izaak Walton

“You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library.' She pointed to the shelf opposite. 'Over there…

— Jasper Fforde

I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in a corner…

— Elizabeth Bishop

Which is both gross and breathtakingly romantic. He could always have just gone upstairs and brushed his teeth, but he stayed and…

— Maureen Johnson

[T]is not all fishing to fish.

— Izaak Walton

A man ... needs to get out in the open air and sweat and blow off the stink.

— William Kittredge

Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a…

— Francis Maitland Balfour

If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.

— Douglas Adams

I know I'm a long way from greatness, but I am beginning to come at it in my own way. I can…

— John Gierach

A fishnet is made up of a lot more holes than strings, but you can't therefore argue that the net doesn't exist.…

— Jeffrey Kluger

When you were sleeping on the sofa I put my ear to your ear and listened to the echo of your dreams.…

— Jeffrey McDaniel

Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the…

— Samuel R. Delany

...A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The…

— Edgar Allan Poe

If the universe has an end, it means we are captive fishes in an aquarium! If it has no end, we are…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.

— Thomas Adams

The affluent society has built well in terms of economic progress, but has neglected the protection of the very water we drink…

— Frank Church

Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small…

— William Carlos Williams

Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth. In stewardship of the common…

— Gilbert F. White

For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped…

— James Dwight Dana

I am persuaded to think that any climate change is bad because of the investments and adaptations that have been made by…

— Fred Singer

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

— Douglas Adams

Some people say there are plenty of fish in the sea - until you find love - then there is only one.

— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet