Quote by Mark Kurlansky Download Open image ““A world without fishing would be sad.”” — Mark Kurlansky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“If you fish without proper bait, you will only catch disappointment.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour--or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Fishing has always been at the heart of the culture of nations with coastlines.” — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“It's not the fish you bring home from a day's fishing. It's the peace of mind.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“If we had never seen fishes, we should be at a loss to understand how any living beings could exist In the sea.” — Allan Kardec Copy Share Image
“The act of fishing – for fish, dreams or whatever magic is available – is enough.” — Fennel Hudson Copy Share Image
“Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The Gods did not count time spent fishing in the hours of a man's life.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“A 1670 revision of the criminal code found yet another use for salt in France. To enforce the law against suicide, it was ordered… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“The Romans, Jones pointed out, called a man in love salax, in a salted state, which is the origin of the word salacious.” — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
When you're in theater, you inevitably wind up working in restaurants. I made pastry. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“For a time, the Hanseatics were well appreciated as honorable merchants who ensured quality and fought against unscrupulous practices. They were known as Easterlings… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I blurbed a nice book, not at all like my book 'The Big Oyster,' called 'The Essential Oyster.' I blurbed a pretty good book… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
The entire trendy foodie world - food writing, food television, celebrated restaurants - is all about food for the rich. But the most important… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
One of the truly horrible things about the Holocaust is that it doesn't end in 1945. It keeps affecting our lives in the way… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
It's true that writing and pastry-making are similar, but when you work as a pastry chef, you can get a kind of mania that… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Food is interesting to me because it's a way of understanding culture and societies and history. I would never write about food just as… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Religion is a big problem in Israel and the Arab world, but again, the problem isn't religion but political leaders who want to use… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“It is a peculiarity of the English language that while most fish swim in schools, herring swim in shoals, a word of the same… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image