Fish Quotes

1421 Fish quotes by 998 unique authors

One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live… — Marshall McLuhan
A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard… — Anthony Bourdain
I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully. — George W. Bush
I walked around as you do, investigating the endless star, and in my net, during the night, I woke up naked, the only thing caught,… — Pablo Neruda
I've never really understood the desire people have to quantify a baby. "He's X big and Y long," As if the baby is a fish… — Patrick Rothfuss
the chocolate raisins tasted somewhat fishy, but Lucy didn't care-chocolate was chocolate. She changed her mind however, when she realized that the raisins were tiny… — Angie Sage
It's a quiet place, so people talk quietly," said Naoko. She made a neat pile of fish bones at the edge of her plate and… — Haruki Murakami
As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or… — Mervyn Peake
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle." I really hate this expression. I bet fish would totally want bicycles. — Meg Cabot
You fish, swim, eat, laze around, and everyone's so friendly. It's such simple stuff, but... If i could stop the world and restart life, put… — Alex Garland
We look high and low for God, but somehow He's not there. So we blame Him and tell ourselves that He must have forgotten us.… — Michael Jackson
So what if man's body evolved from the monkeys? Whether he came from monkeys or fish is unimportant. The important idea is that when the… — Garth Stein
Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond? — Lisi Harrison
Anything's possible in Human Nature," Chacko said in his Reading Aloud voice. Talking to the darkness now, suddenly insensitive to his little fountain-haired niece. "Love.… — Arundhati Roy
Suppose we pick a name for him, eh?" Caius Pompeius stepped over and eyed the child. "He looks a little like my proconsul, Marcus. We… — Neil Gaiman
You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it. — Tamora Pierce
Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could never find the… — Cornelia Funke
if you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you… — Meg Cabot
A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm — William Shakespeare
What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish… — Lloyd Alexander
He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of… — Ernest Hemingway
Whether we're talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world? Obviously not. But… — Jonathan Safran Foer
We're all one thing, like cells in a body. 'Cept we can't see the body. The way fish can't see the ocean. And so we… — Charlie Kaufman
Kansas is not easily impressed. It has seen houses fly and cattle soar. When funnel clouds walk through the wheat, big hail falls behind. As… — N.D. Wilson

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