“He had been looking like a dead fish. He now looked like a deader fish, one of last year's, cast up on some lonely beach and left there at the mercy of the wind and tides.”

“.. for the dead fish was striped like a cat and the sky was striped like the fish and the conch was whorled like an ear and the beach was ribbed like a dog's mouth and the movables in the surf splintered and crashed like the walls of Jericho.”

John Cheever book The Wapshot Chronicle

“The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They're just like dead fish washing up on the shores.”

Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.

“He's like a fish up a tree.”

Paul Merson (1968) English footballer and manager

“Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“Einstein was just a genius of theoretical physics. If you introduced him to biology or chemistry, he would look like a fish trying to climb a tree.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“…nobody has told the coelancath, a fish that lives off Madagascar and looks exactly like its ancestors of 300 million years ago, that it has broken some law by not evolving.”

Matt Ridley (1958) economist

“Papa had looked bad last time. This time he looked like Death's rectum.”

Katherine Dunn book Geek Love

“Because he loves pussy. Except it smells like fish!”

Kathy Griffin (1960) American actress and comedian

“[Ralf Schumacher's] been in every gravel trap there is, more or less, this morning. It looked like he wanted to go to the beach all day.”

Martin Brundle (1959) British racecar driver