Catfish Quotes

• What's the difference between a politician and a catfish? One is a wide-mouthed, bottom-feeding, slime sucker - and the other is a fish.

  Preston Manning

  Differences, Slime, Politician

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• The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone

  Mark Twain

  Good Enough, Fishes, Plenty

  Mark Twain (2016). “Life On The Mississippi”, p.172, Xist Publishing

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• A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Dream, Fishing, Dancing

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• If I go down in for anything in history, I would like to be known as the person who convinced the American people that catfish is one of the finest eating fishes in the world.

  Willard Scott

  People, World, Eating

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• I wonder
  if there are any catfish
  in this pond? It seems like
  a perfect place for them.

  Richard Brautigan

  Perfect, Ponds, Wonder

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One catfish does not make a creek, nor one hero a nation.

  William Cowper Brann

  Hero, Doe, Creeks

  William Cowper Brann (1911). “Brann the Iconoclast”

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• The South, to me, is fried chicken and catfish caviar --- that's grits --- and good-looking women.

  Erk Russell

  Caviar, Grit, Looking Good

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• My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains.

  Dolly Parton

  Husband, Brain, Mouths

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• I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

  Edith Sitwell

  Eels, Pool, Electric

  Attributed to Edith Sitwell in Life Magazine, January 4, 1963.

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• I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were

  Cab Calloway

  Thinking, Color, Voice

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• I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.

  Catfish Hunter

  Couple, North Carolina, Pitching

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• Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field.

  Vida Blue

  Baseball, Men, Genuine Person

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• Your Catfish Friend If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond and you were to come by one evening when the moon was shining down into my dark home and stand there at the edge of my affection and think, “It's beautiful here by this pond. I wish somebody loved me,” I'd love you and be your catfish friend and drive such lonely thoughts from your mind and suddenly you would be at peace, and ask yourself, “I wonder if there are any catfish in this pond? It seems like a perfect place for them.

  Richard Brautigan

  Beautiful, Lonely, Love You

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it.

  Bootsy Collins

  Home, Guitar, Years

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• If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to the Cancer Fund and be married to Marie Osmond.

  Catfish Hunter

  Cancer, Average, League

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• She'd also called me brave...unless she was talking to the catfish.

  Rick Riordan

  Talking, Brave

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• When I'm asked to define "Southern food," I usually turn that question back to my audience and ask them what they think. I hear responses like fried chicken, catfish, barbecue, collard greens, and sweet potatoes. These are excellent examples, because they are historically grounded. You can trace each dish back to the people who brought these food traditions to the South. Today, these foods are central to the core culinary grammar of the American South.

  Marcie Cohen Ferris

  Sweet, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Adaptation is one of the great advantages to being born and bred in Jersey. We're simply not bested by bad air or tainted water. We're like that catfish with lungs. Take us out of our environment and we can grow whatever body parts we need to survive. After Jersey the rest of the country's a piece of cake. You want to send someone into a fallout zone? Get him from Jersey. He'll be fine.

  Janet Evanovich

  Country, Air, Cake

  Janet Evanovich (1999). “Three To Get Deadly: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

  Edith Sitwell

  Women, Eels, People

  Attributed to Edith Sitwell in Life Magazine, January 4, 1963.

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• We have fried catfish, country fried steak and cinnamon-roasted pork. We have collard greens, black-eyed peas, hush puppies, biscuits, sweet potato pie and lots of gravy. Most players love it, but we also have a baked catfish for players who are still looking to stay on the approved diet.

  Mark Farner

  Country, Sweet, Player

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• It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf the whole of mankind without disturbing the domestic life of a single catfish.

  Beryl Markham

  Animal, Men, Elephants

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.227, Open Road Media

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• On the day I was signed, Mr. Finley, the owner of the Athletics at that time came up to me and said, 'When you were six you ran away from home, and when your parents found you at a nearby lake, you had already caught two catfish and were pulling in a third. Now repeat it back to me.'

  Catfish Hunter

  Home, Yankees, Two

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• Daddy had a farm - cows, pigs, OK, a big garden, OK? We did live off the land, and then we would supplement all that with whatever we could kill or catch. Whether we'd kill squirrels, deer, duck, or caught catfish or brim, that was what went on the table.

  Si Robertson

  Garden, Squirrels, Pigs

  "Hey, Look! It's Uncle Si: The Duck Dynasty GQ+A". Interview with Lang Whitaker, www.gq.com. September 4, 2013.

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• If you want proof that Catfish was real, just put me in an audition room and watch me fall apart. I can't pretend. I'm really bad at it. That's partly what makes me good at hosting a reality show.

  Nev Schulman

  Real, Fall, Want

  "Yaniv “Nev” Schulman Talks CATFISH: THE TV SHOW, Which Chronicles His Trek Around the Country to Document Couples in Online Romances". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 7, 2012.

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• 3 whole Catfish, Wrapped separately Veet (It’s for Shaving your legs Only you don’t Need A razor. It’s with all the Girly cosmetic stuff) Vaseline six pack, Mountain Dew One dozen Tulips one Bottle Of water Tissues One Can of blue Spray paint

  John Green

  Girly, Blue, Water

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.31, A&C Black

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