Like Fish Quotes

40 Like Fish quotes by 34 unique authors

The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses. — Pablo Neruda
Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it pulls and it… — David Lynch
There's none as deaf as those who won't listen. I get letters. If they are moronic, they go in the wastepaper basket, but if they… — Ken Bates
I'm not a strict vegetarian. I do eat beef and pork. And chicken. But not fish 'cause that's disgusting! How do you know when fish… — Jim Gaffigan
Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease. — Robert Lowell
Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water. — Nicholas Negroponte
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
History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's… — Edward Hallett Carr
Two people kissing always look like fish. — Andy Warhol
We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our atmosphere. If we… — Alexander Lowen
Women need men like fish need bicycles, — Irina Dunn
Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens… — Isaac Hayes
We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the earth… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time!… — Aldo Leopold
Love is the net where hearts are caught like fish. — Muhammad Ali
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. — Benjamin Franklin
Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface breaking around our mouths as we meet… — Mark Nepo
You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it. — Tamora Pierce
When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
I like fish," chirruped Tunstell. "Really, Mr. Tunstell? What is your preferred breed?" "Well"--Tunstell hesitated--"you know, the um, ones that"--he made a swooping motion with… — Gail Carriger
The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat. — Osbert Sitwell
When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish. — Ma Jian

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