I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream. I always say getting inspiration is like fishing.… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
It was a life with purpose. And it was also a lot of fun. Fishing is fun. Hiking up mountains is fun.… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
If I could be involved in the hunting and fishing industry, that would be amazing. That said, I studied biology in college… — Dustin Lynch Copy Share Image
If pinpointing God's presence were really that simple, then he supposed the beaches would be more crowded in the mornings. They would… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
People ask me, 'Why are you still writing books?' Like I'm still only writing to make money and as soon as I… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Every last cast is actually a first cast. The first cast and first chance to catch the next fish. The next time… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet is it any more unusual to find… — Ray Kroc Copy Share Image
And why do so many people wilfully exhaust their strength in promiscuous living, when their wives are on hand from bridal night… — Ihara Saikaku Copy Share Image
If you keep at it long enough, one day you may witness some greater disturbance, some rushing breach of the water's surface… — Paul Schullery Copy Share Image
Lake Pend Oreille is definitely my favorite place to be while in Sandpoint. I love to get out on a boat to… — Nate Holland Copy Share Image
People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other… — Ed Zern Copy Share Image
The way a good rod first flexes and then extends its muscles as the line quickens, tightens, rises off the water and… — John Hillaby Copy Share Image
the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
Millions of Americans own dogs, because they are good-natured, simple, and easily amused. I am referring here to the Americans. The dogs… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who… — Alessandra Stanley Copy Share Image
The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I spent a long time away from my parents when I was younger. I would go hunting and fishing with my uncle,… — RJ Mitte Copy Share Image
Fly fishing is not about catching the fish. It is about enjoying the water, the breeze, the fish swimming all around. If… — Clare Vanderpool Copy Share Image
You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something .… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
For me, fishing and journalism touched the same places in my head. In comparison with that of poets, the fly fishers' and… — Howell Raines Copy Share Image
Flyfishing does have its social aspects - on some of our crowded trout streams it can get too social - but esentially… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the… — John Gay Copy Share Image
If you aren't a fisher you'll see many things, but the river, except where it is ridden by waterfowl or waded by… — Paul Schullery Copy Share Image
Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
After a solid day of fishing, I'm craving something hearty. That's where a jug of buttermilk comes in. Poaching fish in buttermilk… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
Between the age of 30 and going fishing, none of my friendships had any of that magic dust of when you were… — Bob Mortimer Copy Share Image
My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening… — Emanuel Steward Copy Share Image
Fishing in a bucket. The total hopelessness of the activity was very soothing. It was the perfect sport. Without the emotional stresses… — Hilary McKay Copy Share Image
Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties;… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
There was a code, and though it was mostly unspoken, I absorbed it early on. You always put all the trout back… — Howard Frank Mosher Copy Share Image
When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
Write. Remember, people may keep you (or me) from being a published author but no one can stop you from being a… — Katherine Neville Copy Share Image
Loads of overtaking is boring. You go fishing and you catch a fish every ten minutes and it's boring. But if you… — Eddie Irvine Copy Share Image
One of the sports I do - my wife thinks I'm nuts - is open-water spear fishing, what we call blue-water hunting.… — Scott Glenn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
But ah, to fish with a worm, and then not catch your fish! To fail with a fly is no disgrace: your… — Bliss Perry Copy Share Image
The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the… — Charles Ritz Copy Share Image
