“If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.”
Particularly Cats, ch. 2 (1967)
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British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer … 1919–2013Related quotes
“The salmon may be cited as typically fish-shaped fish.”
Frederick W. Lanchester (1868–1946) British polymath
Aerodynamics, constituting the first volume of a complete work on aerial flight (1906), Chapter 1, page 33
“The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I want to get out in the water. I wanted to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.”
Sylvia Earle (1935) American oceanographer
Interview: Sylvia Earle Undersea Explorer http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/printmember/ear0int-1, Academy of Achievement, January 27, 1991
“Best fishing in troubled waters.”
John Harington (writer) (1560–1612) English courtier and author
Orlando Furioso (completed in 1591).
“It's good fishing in troubled waters.”
Aqua turbida piscosior est.
Peter of Blois French poet and diplomat
Letter 50, to Henry, Bishop of Bayeux, 1170, in J. A. Giles (ed.) Petri blesensis bathoniensis archidiaconi opera omnia (Oxonii: J. H. Parker, 1846-7) vol. 1, p. 155; translation from Provérbios Latinos. http://www.hkocher.info/minha_pagina/adagia/adagia_a.htm
