Carp Quotes

• I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don't have any pets now.

  Tom Felton

  Nice, Pet, Littles

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• Yeah, we held a junior carp tournament on the St. Lawrence River in New York last August. I hosted that along with a couple of other people.

  Tom Felton

  New York, Couple, Rivers

  "Tom Felton Talks About Reading, Collecting, and Being Draco". Interview with Marie Morreale, www.scholastic.com.

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• There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.

  Tom Felton

  Couple, Book, Reading

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• Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Bait, Falsehood

  William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?.) (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Hamlet. King Lear. Othello”, p.47

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• Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Fishing, Salmon, Taste

  Patrick F. McManus (1984). “Never Sniff A Gift Fish”, p.25, Macmillan

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• Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.

  Alexander Pope

  Yellow, Lakes, Race

  Alexander Pope (2008). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.128, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Human ambitions are like Japanese carp; they grow proportional to the size of their environment. Our achievements grow according to the size of our dreams and the degree to which we are in touch with our mission.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Dream, Ambition, Achievement

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.39, Crown Business

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• It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Way, Flow, Tao

  Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• I often think that we are like the carp swimming contentedly in that pond. We live out our lives in our own "pond," confident that our universe consists of only the familiar and the visible. We smugly refuse to admit that parallel universes or dimensions can exist next to ours, just beyond our grasp. If our scientists invent concepts like forces, it is only because they cannot visualize the invisible vibrations that fill the empty space around us. Some scientists sneer at the mention of higher dimensions because they cannot be conveniently measured in the laboratory.

  Michio Kaku

  Swimming, Thinking, Space

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• The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death issues affecting women in the Third World, particularly in rural areas where they have little protection against exploitation and injustice.

  Camille Paglia

  Careers, Issues, Life And Death

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• Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as aninfidel reads to carp and quarrel and criticize, but as one who wishes to be informed and furnished in the earliest and most wonderful of all literary productions. The literature of the Bible should be studied as one studies Shakespeare, for illustration and language, for its true pictures of man and woman nature, for its early historical record.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Bible, Christian, Spiritual

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• I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.

  Izaak Walton

  Rivers, Four, Six

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.151

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• The religion that has transformed Western civilization for two millennia is a blank slate for liberals. Their closest reference point is conservative Christians, meaning people you're not supposed to hire. And these are the people who carp about George Bush's alleged lack of intellectual curiosity.

  Ann Coulter

  Christian, Civilization, Two

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• Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.

  Joe Wright

  Dwelling, Literature, Modern

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth,
  And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,
  With windlasses and with assays of bias,
  By indirections find directions out.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Bait, Bias

  William Shakespeare, Ann Thompson, Neil Taylor (2006). “Hamlet: Third Series”, p.232, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Mind, Weakness, Ethics

  "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrat" by Baruch Spinoza, part III: "On the Origin and Nature of the Emotions", 1677.

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• At one o’clock, the ever-logical Right-Eye Grand Steward woke up to discover that during his sleep his left-eyed counterpart had executed three of his advisors for treason, ordered the creation of a new carp pool and banned limericks. Worse still, no progress had been made in tracking down the Kleptomancer, and of the two people believed to be his accomplices, both had been released from prison and one had been appointed food taster. Right-Eye was not amused. He had known for centuries that he could trust nobody but himself. Now he was seriously starting to wonder about himself.

  Frances Hardinge

  Sleep, Eye, Two

  Frances Hardinge (2012). “A Face Like Glass”, p.109, Pan Macmillan

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• It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  College, House, Waiting

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• If a man holds a door open for me or pulls back a chair so that this old bag can sit down, I'm delighted. Women who moan and carp about that sort of thing are stupid

  Diana Rigg

  Stupid, Men, Doors

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• Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Eggs, Giving

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• I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities.

  Julie Andrews

  Adversity, Vaudeville, Kind

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• They look like to carp going after the same piece of corn.

  Jesse Ventura

  Wrestling, Looks, Pieces

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• If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Self

  Rabindranath Tagore, Krishna Dutta, Andrew Robinson (1997). “Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore”, p.47, Cambridge University Press

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• You didn't happen to see your future mother-in-law at that meeting today, did you?" May as well milk the effort. "Yes, the hormonal carp was present." "Marshall!" "She blew me a new one, as you would say.""She ripped you a new one," I correct. "The word blow has an entirely different meaning. I suggest you remove it from your lexicon.

  Addison Webster Moore

  Mother, Blow, Law

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• We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has no the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching a shrieking fish.

  Leigh Hunt

  Water, Noise, Delight

  Leigh Hunt (1822). “The Indicator”, p.270

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