Quotes about fishing page 2

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

“If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.”

Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer

Source: The Dune Storybook

“Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish.”

Raymond Chandler book The Simple Art of Murder

Source: The Simple Art of Murder

People, Fish

“I said breathe. Not do a fish-out of-water imitation.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

“Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.”

“We're all one thing, like cells in a body. 'Cept we can't see the body. The way fish can't see the ocean. And so we envy each other. Hurt each other. Hate each other. How silly is that? A heart cell hating a lung cell.”

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

Bird, Fish, Chance

Charlie Kaufman (1958) American screenwriter

Source: Adaptation.: The Shooting Script

Hate, Way, Fish, Heart

“I love you more than there are fishes in the sea and higher than the moon”

Nicholas Sparks book At First Sight

Variant: I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.
Source: At First Sight

Love, Fish, Sea

“Oh, I see,” Poseidon said. “A shame. I quite like blow-fish. I am Poseidon.”
“Poseidon? That’s an interesting name.”
“Yes, I like it. I’ve gone by other names, but I do prefer Poseidon.”
“Like the god of the sea.”
“Very much like that, yes.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

God, Fish, Sea

“An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Dreams, Fish, Memory

“He tried to learn seductive phrases in all languages, but the only Swedish he had ever really needed was, "Do you serve anything aside from pickled fish?" and "If you wrap me in furs, I can pretend to be your little fuzzy bear.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Runaway Queen

Fish, Learning

“If pinpointing God's presence were really that simple, then he supposed the beaches would be more crowded in the mornings. They would be filled with people on their own quests, instead of people jogging or walking their dogs or fishing in the surf.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

God, People, Dogs, Fish

“Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.”

Janette Rallison (1966) American writer

Source: My Double Life

Women, Fish

“We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, The Quest for Peace and Justice (1964)
Context: There is a sort of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

Bird, Fish, Learning, Sea

“If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.”

Robin McKinley book The Hero and the Crown

Source: The Hero and the Crown

Drink, Fish, Water

“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

War, History, Communication, Fish

“Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Love, Bird, Fish

“If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Eating Animals

Source: Eating Animals

Life, Intelligence, Fish

“Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.”

W.C. Fields (1880–1946) actor

Fish, Dead

“Why so scrawny, cat?
Starving for fat fish or mice…
Or backyard love?”

Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet

Source: Japanese Haiku

Love, Cats, Fish

“Fish Ponies! I put them on the ceiling!"

-Tyson”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

“Adamant," Doren said proudly, handing over the shield. "We fished it out of the tar pit where we found the shirt of mail."

"Probably all belonged to the same careless adventurer," Newel speculated. "Too much money, not enough talent.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: Keys to the Demon Prison

Money, Fish

“A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Love, Bird, Fish

“Bear heard Rose in the background saying, 'Why thank you, Mr. Fish.'
'Good redhead. Helpful redhead,' Fish returned.”

Regina Doman (1970) American writer

Fish, Help

“One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.”

Marshall McLuhan book War and Peace in the Global Village

Source: War and Peace in the Global Village

“There is no greater fan of fly fishing then the worm.”

Patrick F. McManus (1933–2018) American journalist

Fish, Flying

“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”

Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990) English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist

Fish, Dead, Forgetting

“Fish cannot carry guns.”

Philip K. Dick book VALIS

Source: VALIS (1981)

“Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Ch. 20, p. 193.
Context: Of course he wasn't dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.

Life, World, Peace, Soul

“You teach combat, I guess.”

Aphros threw up his hands in exasperation. “Why does everyone assume that?”

Leo glanced at the massive sword on the fish-guy’s back. “Uh, I don’t know.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Guy, Fish

“Um, sorry. I cant read the last line."
"Fish. Have you stolen any fish from the holy lakes?"
"I lived in Kansas.. So.. no”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Fish, Reading

“Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?'
Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he muttered, and I almost giggled.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: A Fistful of Charms

Hell, Fish

“Adina gave a little shriek. "That fish just swam past my leg! Creepy! Where did it go?"

"To your right! Two o'clock! Get it!"

"You are officially the most bloodthirsty vegetarian ever.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

Fish, Past

“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle."
I really hate this expression. I bet fish would totally want bicycles.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Princess on the Brink

Hate, Fish

“Why he would agree to install an eight-by-eight-foot fish tank and then not fill it with a single dolphin made me want to burn his eyebrows off.”

Chelsea Handler book Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang

Source: Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang

“the chocolate raisins tasted somewhat fishy, but Lucy didn't care-chocolate was chocolate. She changed her mind however, when she realized that the raisins were tiny fish heads.”

Angie Sage (1952) English author and illustrator

Fish, Change

“Clary stopped wondering about peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup and started wondering what would happen if she dumped the contents of the pot on Isabelle’s head.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving its own mother, a few household implements, and a dead fish.”

Mercedes Lackey (1950) American novelist and short story writer

Source: The Silver Gryphon

Question, Fish, Dead

“If I pass out face down in this water, will you fish me out?"
"Will you promise to call me Your Majesty?"
"Hell no."
"Then I'll have to think about it.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

Hell, Thinking, Fish, Water

“My mother is a fish.”

William Faulkner book As I Lay Dying

Source: As I Lay Dying (1930)

“Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown in nature.”

John Gierach (1946) American sportswriter

Source: Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury

Idea, Nature, Fish, Flying

“One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish!”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

“I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?”

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist

Thinking, Fish

“A bird may love a fish but where would they build a home together?”

Joseph Stein (1912–2010) American playwright

Source: Fiddler on the Roof

Love, Home, Bird, Fish

“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Source: Walden

Drink, Fish, Time

“Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it… it says "Chicken… by the Sea."”

Jessica Simpson (1980) American singer-songwriter and actress

While eating "Chicken of the Sea" canned tuna
Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica, "Newlyweds Clean House" [1.01], 19 August 2003

Fish, Sea

“Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.”

“Yay!' he said. 'Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!”

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

Love, Fish, Dead

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

Fish, Fight

“You fit into me
like a hook into an eye
a fish hook
an open eye”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

“We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.”

Winston S. Churchill book The Second World War

Radio broadcast, London, Dieu Protège La France [God protect France], October 21, 1940 ( partial text http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/LaFrance.html). The Second World War (1939–1945)

Fish, Waiting

“I was under the stars, like a fish is under water.”

Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist

Star, Fish, Water

“I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Life, People, Cars, Nature

“I kind of killed it in college. You know that saying "big fish in a small pond"? At Dartmouth college, I was freakin' Jaws in a community swimming pool.”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Communication, Fish

“Sausage-Seller: You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets.”

Aristophanés The Knights

tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Kn.+864 ὅπερ γὰρ οἱ τὰς ἐγχέλεις θηρώμενοι πέπονθας. ὅταν μὲν ἡ λίμνη καταστῇ, λαμβάνουσιν οὐδέν· ἐὰν δ᾽ ἄνω τε καὶ κάτω τὸν βόρβορον κυκῶσιν, αἱροῦσι· καὶ σὺ λαμβάνεις, ἢν τὴν πόλιν ταράττῃς. Knights, line 864-867 Dialog aimed at the politician Cleon, symbolizing demagogues for the author. Knights (424 BC) Source: The Knights

Way, Fish, Water, Time

“She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets! It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!”

Laura Ingalls Wilder book On the Banks of Plum Creek

Source: On the Banks of Plum Creek

“Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.”

Robert Jordan The Dragon Reborn

Source: The Dragon Reborn

Travel, Fish

“A fish has no concept of water.”

Janet Fitch (1955) American writer

“You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library.' She pointed to the shelf opposite. 'Over there was, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.”

Jasper Fforde (1961) British novelist

Source: Shades of Grey

Books, Fish

“if you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you may have caught for yourself”

Meg Cabot book Darkest Hour

Source: Darkest Hour

Fish, Wise

“Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.”

Jim Harrison (1937–2016) American novelist, poet, essayist

Source: Wolf False Memoir

Love, Life, Dogs, Mountain

“Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.”

Scott Adams (1957) cartoonist, writer

“So what if man's body evolved from the monkeys? Whether he came from monkeys or fish is unimportant. The important idea is that when the body became "human" enough, the first human soul slipped into it.”

Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain

Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain

Soul, Idea, Fish

“Leo waited while the fish centaur put away his supplies. Aphros's lobster-claw horns kept swimming around in his thick hair, and Leo had to resist the urge to try and rescue them.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Fish, Waiting

“My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

“You’re gonna be like Aquaman?” she asked. “Get the fish to fight for you?”

“Thanks,” Percy said. “I haven’t heard enough Aquaman jokes for one lifetime.”

Rick Riordan book The Hidden Oracle

Source: The Hidden Oracle

Fish, Fight

“You fish, swim, eat, laze around, and everyone's so friendly. It's such simple stuff, but… If i could stop the world and restart life, put the clock back, i think I'd restart it like this. For everyone.”

Alex Garland book The Beach

Source: The Beach

Life, World, Thinking, Fish

“A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
- Then I shall build you wings.”

Drew Barrymore (1975) American actress, director and producer

Love, Bird, Fish

“Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

Love, Fish, Time, Dead

“I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.”

W.C. Fields (1880–1946) actor

Drink, Fish, Water

“Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.”

“Good tuna-fish sandwiches; he’s the tallest man I’ve ever seen! (Pam)”

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

Fish, Dead

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

“He should not be here, " said the fish in the pot. " he should not be here when your mother is not.”

Dr. Seuss book The Cat in the Hat

Source: The Cat in the Hat

“Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Question, Fish

“This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Knowledge, Fish, Sea

“Not that I’ve ever feared a fight or backed down from one –(Wren)
That’s the truth. I swear he’s half beta fish. He’d fight his own reflection to prove a point. (Maggie)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Unleash the Night

Truth, Fear, Fish, Fight

“[Jem] looked from Will to Tessa and raised his silvery eyebrows. "A miracle," he said. "You got him to speak."
"Just to shout at me, really," said Tessa. "Not quite loaves and fishes.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

“I am a fish.”

Source: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

“Cofishes-other fish in a group, coworkers, cohorts, etc. Shut up, it's a word.”

Christopher Moore book Fool

Source: Fool

“What possessed ye, woman, to hit me in the heid wi' a fish whilst I was fighting for my life?”

Diana Gabaldon book Drums of Autumn

Source: Drums of Autumn

Life, Fish, Fight

“So, great. This is Camp…what do you call it? Camp Fish-Blood?”
Aphros frowned. “I hope that was a joke. This is Camp __________.” He made a sound that was a series of sonar pings and hisses.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Hope, Fish

“If you believe in your heart that you are right, then you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.”

Linda Ellerbee (1944) journalist

Way, Fish, Time, Heart

“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

“We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

“He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Stupidity, Fish

“I've never really understood the desire people have to quantify a baby. "He's X big and Y long," As if the baby is a fish you're not sure you're going to keep. Or some prize potato you're hoping will win a prize at the county fair.”

Patrick Rothfuss (1973) American fantasy writer

People, Hope, Fish, Baby

“We have here other fish to fry.”

Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel

Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 12.

“The water we hold sacred is not some abstract image or fantasy of Water, but the real stuff that we need to drink and bathe and grow our gardens, that provides the crucial habitat for fish and plants and thousands of other creatures, that is the Earth's literal life blood.”

Starhawk (1951) American author, activist and Neopagan

Toward an Activist Spirituality (2003)

Life, Drink, Fish, Water

“Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.”

Philip K. Dick The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

Page 236
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982)

Fish, Madness

“[Why do animals] undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated changes, during which they acquire organs which have no function, and which, after remaining visible for a short time, disappear without leaving a trace... The explanation of such facts is obvious. The stage when the tadpole breathes by gills is a repetition of the stage when the ancestors of the frog had not advanced in the scale of development beyond a fish.”

Francis Maitland Balfour (1851–1882) British biologist

Comparative Embryology, p. 702. (1880)

Fish, Change, Time, Animals

“Bottom trawls—large bag-shaped nets towed over the sea floor—account for more of the world's catch of fish, shrimp, squid, and other marine animals than any other fishing method. But trawling also disturbs the sea floor more than any other human activity, with increasingly devastating consequences for the world's fish population.”

Carl Safina (1955) American biologist

[Scorched-Earth Fishing, Issues in Science and Technology, 14, 3, Spring 1998, 33–36, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43313863]

World, Fish, Animals, Sea

“Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis

“How can I accept a doctrine which sets up as its bible, above and beyond criticism, an obsolete economic textbook which I know to be not only scientifically erroneous but without interest or application for the modern world? How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?”

John Maynard Keynes book Essays in Persuasion

"A Short View of Russia" (1925); Originally three essays for the Nation and Athenaeum, later published separately as A Short View of Russia (1925), then edited down for publication in Essays in Persuasion (1931)
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - John Maynard Keynes / Quotes / Essays in Persuasion (1931)
Essays in Persuasion (1931), A Short View of Russia (1925)

Life, World, Fish

“Second are the partially-implemented or unimplemented projects that were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in its ruling on the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP). Such projects, such as the Coconut Scale Insect Emergency Action Plan for coconut farmers, the rehabilitation of LRT Lines 1 and 2, or the construction of fish ports, lighthouses and seawalls shall help our long-suffering masses escape from the claws of poverty and are thus deemed important.”

Francis Escudero (1969) Filipino politician

2014, Speech: Sponsorship Speech for the Supplemental Appropriations for FY 2014

Fish, Suffering, Help

“The flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea at Acre is not similar to the flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea in Spain.”

Rashi (1040–1105) French rabbi and commentator

Commenting on Gen. 1:10; why does it say "seas", not "sea" - because the nature of the sea varies from place to place.
Commentary on Genesis

Fish, Sea

“[To Mr. Johnson] If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.”

Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) Irish physician and writer

From James Boswell's Life of Johnson (1791), April 27, 1773.

“The waters speak of love and the breeze and the branches and the little birds and the fish and the flowers and the grass, all together begging me always to love. But you, born in a happy hour, who call me from Heaven: by the memory of your untimely death you beg me to scorn the world and its sweet hooks.”

Francesco Petrarca Il Canzoniere

Canzone 280, st. 3–4
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Death

Love, Death, Happiness, World

“I say, and have always said, and will always say: the fish that does not sing throughout the whole world is a dead fish.”

Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author

Merchant Gúðmúnsen
Brekkukotsannáll (The Fish Can Sing) (1957)

World, Fish, Singing, Dead

“But I didn't believe in the theory that human beings – thinking, loving beings – originated from fish that sprouted legs and crawled out of the sea. Or that human beings began as single-celled organisms that developed into monkeys who eventually swung down from trees; I believed we came about through a random process, but were created by God.”

Sarah Palin book Going Rogue: An American Life

Going Rogue: An American Life (2009), p. 217 http://books.google.com/books?id=Wx00mzMRGH8C&pg=PA217&dq=%22But+I+didn't+believe+in+the+theory%22, quoted in Memoir Is Palin’s Payback to McCain Campaign, The New York Times, 2009-11-14 https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/books/15book.html?_r=2&pagewanted=2&ref=books, 2014

Love, God, Thinking, Fish

“Roger: It was awesome! A lot of fun, good fans, good shows. We toured with Reel Big Fish and when we tour together things seem to be awesome so no complaints”

Roger Manganelli (1973) American musician