"When I go fishing I like to know……" — Norman MacCaig
"When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me."
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Norman MacCaig
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33 Quotes by Norman MacCaig
Norman MacCaig has 33 quotes on this site.
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I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
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But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room -…
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If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age…
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I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural…
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When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever,…
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Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
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When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.
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All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side,…
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Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot…
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A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have…
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All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them,…
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And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet -…
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More Fishing Quotes
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one of 450 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
— John James Audubon
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I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car…
— Joseph Barbera
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
— Dave Barry
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The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or…
— Dave Barry
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Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself…
— Saint Basil
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This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of…
— Aneurin Bevan
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One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about…
— Wade Boggs
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Probably fishing is my first passion.
— Luke Bryan
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My dad is very successful in his business. He's always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to…
— Luke Bryan
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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of…
— John Buchan
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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he'll sit in…
— Alex Blackwell
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