Big Fish Quotes

• Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Powerful, Ideas

  "Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity". Book by David Lynch, December 27, 2007.

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• Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.

  Sylvia Earle

  Lakes, Blue, Oysters

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• They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.

  Daniel Wallace

  Moving, Love At First Sight, Love Your Life

  "Fictional character: Senior Ed Bloom". "Big Fish", www.imdb.com. December 4, 2003.

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• Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond?

  Lisi Harrison

  Ponds, Nervous, Bigs

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• In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a big pond.

  Victoria Beckham

  Fish Tanks, Ponds, Tiny

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• I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.

  Nick Lowe

  Ponds, Headache, Bigs

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• New York is where you go to catch a big fish.

  Jessica Cutler

  New York, Bigs, Fishes

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• I'm a big fish eater. Salmon - I love salmon. My sister loves Chinese food and sushi and all that. I'm not as big of a fan, but she likes it so we eat it a lot. So I'm beginning to like it more. I don't like the raw sushi. I liked the cooked crab and lobster and everything.

  Elle Fanning

  Sister Love, Chinese, Salmon

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• I'm into eating salads and fish. I've always been a big fish eater. I like fruit. I have friends that you have to force-feed them the good stuff. I'm lucky I actually like it. Brussel sprouts and all that.

  Elisha

  Lucky, Stuff, Salad

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• You can't catch the big fish by skimming the surface.

  Andy Gilbert

  Courage, Skimming, Bigs

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• In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, it's the fast fish which eats the slow fish.

  Klaus Schwab

  World, Bigs, Fishes

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• The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?

  Lee Wulff

  Kindness, Fishing, Giving

  Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult

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• And the new day was a great big fish.

  Terry Pratchett

  New Day, Bigs, Fishes

  "Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, Book 31)". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2003.

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• If you want to sell 'em fish, sell 'em big fish. That's the secret to success.

  Jack Solomons

  Business, Work, Secret

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• My big fish must be somewhere.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Bigs, Old Man, Fishes

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.7213, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a storyteller, and I grew up with a father who told big-fish stories, so storytelling is very much a part of me. It was a part of my family.

  Susan Stroman

  Father, Stories, My Family

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.

  Ali Babacan

  Bigs, Fishes, Small Fish

  "Joe Biden, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan Trade Boasts". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2011.

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• 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

  Life, Ideas, Fairness

  John Gierach (2001). “Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.

  David Lynch

  Practice, Meditation

  David Lynch (2007). “Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.57, Penguin

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• Loads of overtaking is boring. You go fishing and you catch a fish every ten minutes and it's boring. But if you site there all day, and you catch one mega fish, you come back with stories that you caught a fish this big (indicates a big fish), intead of this size (indicating a small fish)

  Eddie Irvine

  Fishing, Stories, Size

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• Since I began exploring the ocean in the 1950s, 90 percent of the big fish have been stripped away. Tuna, sharks, swordfish, cod, halibut, you name it, the numbers have just collapsed. Also, about half of the coral reefs are gone, globally, from where they were just a few decades ago.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Sharks, Names

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We scientists can argue forever about important topics like slightly different flavors of vanilla ice cream. Consider the silliness of this debate: one group of scientists found a 90% decline of big fish and criticized fishery management. Some other scientists found an 80% decline and started a big argument with the 90% people. Who cares if it's 80% or 90%? The real question is whether it's OK to let fishermen take most of the big fish out of our oceans.

  Mark Powell

  Real, Ocean, Ice Cream

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• Some people like being a big fish in a small pond, others a ferocious shark in the ocean, I rather be the ocean. In the end, fish die.

  Behdad Sami

  Ocean, Sharks, People

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• I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the middle of the room, and then they all shot past me with a rush and out of the front door; and all that was left of the mobscene was the head of a whacking big fish, lying on the carpet and staring up at me in a rather austere sort of way, as if it wanted a written explanation and apology.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Lying, Cat, Apology

  P. G. Wodehouse (2016). “Expecting Jeeves”, p.34, Courier Dover Publications

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