1980s Quote by Magdalena McGuire

“The fish is in no hurry to take a bath.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

“That’s where the fish first started swimming don’t tell me you didn’t see the bee fly out you saved yourself perhaps from wasps or…

— Daniel Kharms

“Sunk in the mud, it took all my strength to flip it over. I lifted out the oar and inspected the bottom for holes…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“The old days, they arrive back in the oddest ways, suddenly taut, breaking the surface, a salmon leap.”

— Colum McCann

“and there was a fish pond a large one full of the fattest goldfish you ever saw and they were tame. they came to…

— Charles Bukowski

“Trousers rolled to the knee but still they got wet. They tied the rope to a cleat at the rear of the boat and…

— Cormac McCarthy

“one day the goldfish died, all five of them, they floated on the water, on their sides, their eyes still open, and when my…

— Charles Bukowski

“The orange of the golden carp appeared at the edge of the pond. . . . We watched in silence at the beauty and…

— Rudolfo Anaya

“The fishes wake up early.”

— Ben Monopoli

“The fish in the water is racked by thirst: I hear about it and burst out laughing. What you are looking for is right…

— Kabir

“A man was fishing and caught a fish. The fish was so small he threw it back in the water and for the first…

— Zen Story

“The trouble with the English was that they were English: damn cold fish! - Living underwater most of the year, in days the colour…

— Salman Rushdie