Lakes Quotes · Page 4

You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

— Natalia Makarova

I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.

— G. E. M. Skues

I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.

— Cassandra Clare

The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

— Horace

If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg.

— Theodore Gordon

I love Salt Lake City. It's beautiful with all the great outdoors around you.

— Peter Sagal

A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.

— Arnold Gingrich

The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

In the middle of Siberia I guess there's a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I'm terrified to go in lakes because you can't see the bottom, and not knowing what's there watching you is really scary…

— Sara Paxton

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

— Thomas McGuane

I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5-lb. perch in my lake. (Answering a reporter who…

— George W. Bush

If there are ripples on the surface of a lake, we cannot see the depth. Similarly unless the mind is restful, we…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure…

— Ernest Hemingway

The others strapped themselves below - except for Coach Hedge, who insisted on clinging to the forward rail, yelling, "YEAH! Bring it…

— Rick Riordan

People conquered on different sides of the lake should be ruled on different sides of the lake.

— Genghis Khan

History is a state of yearning. I yearn for Kay Lake throughout this entire thing. There's an essay I've written where I…

— James Ellroy

.. the long hour and a half walk-in to the secret pool , only to find four anglers filling it. Secret pools?…

— Tony Bishop

Ayame: "Yuki, let's deepen the bond between us brothers!" Yuki: "Before you can do that I'll drown you in the deepest part…

— Natsuki Takaya

If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of…

— Chanakya

Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and…

— John D. Voelker

The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is…

— Alex Shoumatoff

No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy…

— Herbert Hoover

The life of the wood, meadow, and lake go on without us. Flowers bloom, set seed and die back; squirrels hide nuts…

— Ann Zwinger

Both Mitt and I have summer places up in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee. And a few summers ago I was taking…

— J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr

Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that…

— Irvin S. Cobb

I make it a rule never to weigh or measure a fish I've caught, but simply to estimate its dimensions as accurately…

— Ed Zern

Perhaps one of the most meaningful ways to sense the impact of the environmental crisis is to confront the question which is…

— Barry Commoner

If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is…

— Nikola Tesla

As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm…

— Harold Pinter

Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in…

— Lee Wulff

I’ve always liked the feeling of traveling light; there is something in me that wants to feel I could leave wherever I…

— Nicole Krauss

There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

— Thomas Hood

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

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

— Dave Barry

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

— Maya Angelou

No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.

— Elsie de Wolfe

I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods.

— Steven Tyler

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

— Izaak Walton