Body Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

“This was the southern sea. The colors that fade when coral is drawn out of its element were garishly bright here, intricate and lovely…

— Henry Kuttner

It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.

— Karl A. Menninger

We were staring at the origin of a piece of our own bodies inside this 375-million-year-old fish. We had a fish with a wrist.

— Neil Shubin

“They excrete in the same water where they eat, and they eat in the semen-clouded water where they fornicate. Fish are disgusting.”

— Dean Koontz

“About midnight excited hails were heard from a boat about a couple of miles out at sea to the southeast of Sidmouth, and a…

— H.G. Wells

“Oyster, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails!”

— Ambrose Bierce

“Doc was collecting marine animals in the Great Tide Pool on the tip of the Peninsula. It is a fabulous place: when the tide…

— John Steinbeck

We don't know yet if it was the raw fish. We may never know the cause.

— Ann Wright

“I remember a biology lab in which we observed a spear-headed water worm. Like a starfish, it could grow back anything we razored off…

— Kenji Yoshino

Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he…

— Joseph Addison

“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing…

— Aristophanes

“I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in a corner of his…

— Elizabeth Bishop