Quotes about tuna (17 quotes) | Quotes of famous people

“He cut his glance toward Jace, who was walking a few paces ahead of them, apparently conversing with the cat. Clary wondered what they were talking about. Politics? Opera? The high price of tuna?”

Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments

Clary, pg. 135
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

Cats

“Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal.”

Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

Life

“The Feast of Fortuna had nothing to do with tuna, which was fine with Percy.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

“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

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Fish

“I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Mother's Day , For Mother , Food , Memory

“I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

Childhood

“(Television) Being a woman is as much a state of mind as a state of being. (Sylvia) Right. You stop paying attention, you might turn into a tuna.”

Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 167

“(Signs on refrigerator) Could be a leftover tuna casserole inside…Or one of those pesky, black…U. N. helicopters.”

Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 51

“I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna-fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.”

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1934–2002) American journalist

Cited in: Bill Adler (2001) Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women, p. 86

Fish

“In spring I stopped eating the bodies of living things. Nonetheless, the other day I ate several slices of tuna sashimi as a form of magic to “undertake” my “communication” with “society.” I also stirred a cup of chawanmushi with a spoon. If the fish, while being eaten, had stood behind me and watched, what would he have thought? “I gave up my only life and this person is eating my body as if it were something distasteful.” “He’s eating me in anger.” “He’s eating me out of desperation.” “He’s thinking of me and, while quietly savoring my fat with his tongue, praying, ‘Fish, you will come with me as my companion some day, won’t you?’” “Damn! He’s eating my body!” Well, different fish would have had different thoughts. … Suppose I were the fish, and suppose that not only I were being eaten but my father were being eaten, my mother were being eaten, and my sister were also being eaten. And suppose I were behind the people eating us, watching. “Oh, look, that man has torn apart my sibling with chopsticks. Talking to the person next to him, he swallowed her, thinking nothing of it. Just a few minutes ago her body was lying there, cold. Now she must be disintegrating in a pitch-dark place under the influence of mysterious enzymes. Our entire family have given up our precious lives that we value, we’ve sacrificed them, but we haven’t won a thimbleful of pity from these people.””

Kenji Miyazawa (1896–1933) Japanese poet and author of children's literature

I must have been once a fish that was eaten.
Letter to Hosaka (May 1918); as quoted in Miyazawa Kenji: Selections, edited by Hiroaki Sato (University of California Press, 2007), pp. 12 https://books.google.it/books?id=D7IwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA12-13.

Life , People , Family , Spring

“The bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) is a creature of superlatives. Growing to 1500 pounds (700 kilos), traveling on transoceanic migrations, and reputedly capable of swimming 50 miles (90 km) per hour, it is one of the largest, most wide-ranging, and fastest of animals. To anyone who has seen this saber-finned giant explode through the surface of the sea, it is among the most magnificent.”

Carl Safina (1955) American biologist

[Conservation Biology, 7, 2, June 1993, Bluefin Tuna in the West Atlantic: Negligent Management and the Making of an Endangered Species, 229–234, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2386419]

Travel , Animals , Sea

“Taste my tuna casserole — tell me if I put in too much hot fudge.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)

“ahhhh… satchel, my boy, there's nothin' like a tuna smoothie on a hot summer day…”

Darby Conley (1970) American cartoonist

groovitude, page 163
Bucky Katt

Boy , Summer

“Basically it’s a velociraptor with a fur coat and an outsize sense of entitlement. Right now it has convinced Pete that it is harmless, but I know better: just give them thumbs and in no time at all they’ll have us working in the tuna mines, delivering cans from now until eternity.”

Charles Stross The Laundry Files

Source: The Laundry Files, The Rhesus Chart (2014), Chapter 12, “Green Lime” (p. 240)

Sense , Time

“What we need to think about perhaps for Mission Blue is increasing the biologging capacity. How is it that we can actually take this type of activity elsewhere? And then finally -- to basically get the message home -- maybe use live links from animals such as blue whales and white sharks. Make killer apps, if you will. A lot of people are excited when sharks actually went under the Golden Gate Bridge. Let's connect the public to this activity right on their iPhone. That way we do away with a few internet myths. So we can save the bluefin tuna. We can save the white shark. We have the science and technology. Hope is here. Yes we can. We need just to apply this capacity further in the oceans.”

Barbara Block (1958) American marine biologist

Source: Tagging tuna in the deep ocean https://www.ted.com/talks/barbara_block_tagging_tuna_in_the_deep_ocean (April 2010)

Home , Hope , People , Animals

“I can understand that people get overwhelmed very quickly when you start to talk about an enormous issue like climate change. But I suggest they just choose one change and implement that in their lives, such as deciding not to eat bluefin tuna or shrimp anymore because it’s unsustainable. Then when that becomes simply part of your life, chose something else to implement. Make informed choices and make them part of your everyday life and don’t assume others are doing it for you.”

Céline Cousteau (1972) French-American explorer, filmmaker, and diver

300 Seconds with Céline S. Cousteau NOW talks to the filmmaker and explorer https://www.itmustbenow.com/feature/movers-mavericks/5-minutes-celine-s-cousteau/ (December 2018)

Understanding , Life , Making love , People