Fish Quotes
1421 Fish quotes by 998 unique authors
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"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)
— Mark Nepo
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A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment,…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Bwenawa brought my attention to two wooden planks raised about four feet above the ground. On the ledges were lagoon fish sliced open and lying…
— J. Maarten Troost
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To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as are calls for…
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.
— Robin McKinley
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Give a man a fish, feed home for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed for a lifetime.
— Confucius
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Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and breaking our hearts…
— Charles Simic
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I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is…
— William Shakespeare
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my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile! why don't you…
— Charles Bukowski
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You are my beauty, my body, perfected. All I was drained off into you. When you left, my health went with you - leaving a…
— Clive Barker
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Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.
— William Shakespeare
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Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the…
— David Lynch
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I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I go for the…
— Jimmy Buffett
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Chuck said, “Hey. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” Cawley looked over at him. “I’ll bite. How many?” “Fish,” Chuck…
— Dennis Lehane
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Bink knew the dolphin only from old pictures; it was a kind of magic fish that breathed air instead of water.
— Piers Anthony
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Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their…
— Dr. Seuss
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We got quiet. The garden was combing her hair and putting on earrings. The house was full of dancing creatures, not male and female but…
— Francesca Lia Block
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Hunting and fishing involve killing animals with devices (such as guns) for which the animals have not evolved natural defenses. No animal on earth has…
— Marc Bekoff
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The seals stupidly dive off rocks into swirling black water, barking mindlessly. The zookeepers feed them dead fish. A crowd gathers around the tank, mostly…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head…
— Yann Martel
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It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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And I have two eyes. I’ve seen that little melodrama play out between you and that other tracker. Fish? Flounder? What’s his name?
— Amanda Hocking
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She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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One man's fish is another man's poisson.
— Mark Gatiss
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