Fish Quotes
1421 Fish quotes by 998 unique authors
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Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.
— Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat characters and prose that moves…
— Douglas Preston
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The fish was an enemy. It had come upon the community and killed two men, a woman, and a child. The people of Amity would…
— Peter Benchley
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I eat fish and love bacon. Plus, I don't mind if soups are made with chicken or beef stock, I just don't like eating big…
— Lisa Loeb
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In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked fish pond... If…
— Julia Cameron
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Sooner could a fish live upon a tree than the wicked in Paradise.
— Kevin DeYoung
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Manifestation is an act of trust. It is the soul pouring itself out into its world, like a fisherman casting a net to gather in…
— David Spangler
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I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water; fruit mold, rice,…
— Erik Satie
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It's better to be an octopus than a fish. If an octopus loses a tentacle to a predator, the octopus will survive with seven tentacles…
— Gene Simmons
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It makes me mad when I go to all the trouble of having Martha cook up about a hundred drumsticks, the the guy at the…
— Jack Handey
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The only reason I ever played in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.
— Sam Snead
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Just as a fisherman cannot catch fish unless his line is in the water, a wildlife photographer cannot shoot great wildlife images unless he or…
— George Harrison
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My oldest son always wants to race. He's kind of like me and it now has carried over to the other two. They're all pretty…
— Steve Blake
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Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
— Vernor Vinge
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Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.
— Vernor Vinge
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It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly and unemotionally at…
— Lin Yutang
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In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.
— Sri Yukteswar Giri
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What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any…
— Jay Inslee
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Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there’s nothing you can do about being born liberal — fish gotta swim and hearts…
— Molly Ivins
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