Boat Quote by John Gierach Download Open image “I don't really know how to tie a fly until I've tied a hundred dozen of them.” — John Gierach ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boat Dozen Fishes Fishing Hundred Know how Knows Lakes Rivers Sea Tied Ties
I’m not much of a fly tier. I can do it—my friend calls it 'ham and eggs tying'—and I tie some cool flies that… — Jack Ohman Copy Share Image
Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I like to do every operation the same way on each fly. In the course of tying a batch of flies, I might get… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Set them free. They must fly. If they fall, catch them in time, before anyone else does. — Melania Copy Share Image
Go on, hitch a ride on the back of a butterfly. There's no better way to fly. — Patrick Monahan Copy Share Image
“But, if you ask me, the best way to go about flying is to cut the strings tying you down...” — Renee Ahdieh Copy Share Image
Stretch your wings, only as far as they spread. Hold only the weight enough to carry. Little may be enough. Wanting to hold too… — Jhiess Krieg Copy Share Image
Fish sense, applied in the field, is what the old Zen masters would call enlightenment: simply the ability to see what's right there in… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly. — John Gierach Copy Share Image
I still enjoy the company of most dogs more than that of most people, because dogs are capable of uncomplicated enthusiasm. — John Gierach Copy Share Image
I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong. — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Fishing in rainy conditions may make fisherman seem crazy to the great mass of unimaginative people, but then few fishermen care what they think — John Gierach Copy Share Image
We do have to think seriously about conservation now, although it is chilling to realize there are catch-and-release fishermen alive today who don't know… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
If we carry purism to it's logical conclusion, to do it right {fishing} you'd have to live naked in a cave, hit your trout… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Lawyers are like nuclear weapons. By all rights they shouldn't exist, but if some people have them, then you'd better have one, too, just… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one fish was caught, he was writhing, then he was thrown against the side of the boat. You couldn't disguise what it was. This was what we did to animals to eat them. The animal went from… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share
When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as… — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it made the… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
It's a hindrance in trying to get a serious acting role. The minute a producer has a script and my name comes up, they… — Barbi Benton Copy Share Image
Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there’s a current and just stare into the water. I don’t… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share
A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
I took one guitar lesson, and they wanted me to play 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' or 'Michael Row the Boat Ashore,' and that… — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I… — Jerry Doyle Copy Share Image
We wanted a musical number that would capture the exhilaration of being out on a boat as they were and sailing with the stars and all that. So that's the origin of We Know the Way. From very early on we said, for an audience that doesn't know this, what we need a song that can really have the kind… — John Musker Copy Share
