Eels Quotes

• To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.

  Rachel Carson

  Running, Moving, Years

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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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, People, Being Different

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

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• Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.

  Robert Jordan

  Sometimes, Baskets, Slippery

  Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.1109, Macmillan

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• Here's the thing: this eel spends its entire life trying to find a home, and what do you think women have inside them? Caves, where the eels like to live...when they find a cave they like, the wriggle around inside it for a while to be sure that...well, to be sure it's a nice cave, I suppose. And when they've made up their minds that it's comfortable, they mark the cave as their territory...by spitting.

  Arthur Golden

  Sex, Nice, Home

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• It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Men, Creating, Strange

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• Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pie, Frogs, Puddleglum

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.56, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• I have the backbone of an eel.

  Betty White

  Backbone

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond!

  Sark

  Ponds, Goldfish, Electric

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• Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Marriage, Funny Love, Funny Relationship

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• They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.

  Anne Carson

  Two, Tanks, Bottom

  Anne Carson (1999). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Vintage

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• Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell

  Bertrand Russell

  Love Is, Hell, Bites

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• POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mistake, Agitation, Tails

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.166, 谷月社

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• My hovercraft is full of eels.

  John Cleese

  Hovercrafts

  Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones (2009). “Monty Python Live!”, Hyperion

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• Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.

  James de la Vega

  Business, Thinking, Gains

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• The funniest thing about comedy is that you never know why people laugh. I know what makes them laugh but trying to get your hands on the why of it is like trying to pick an eel out of a tub of water.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Humor, Hands

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• I gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan.

  Octavia Spencer

  Home, Plans, Electric

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• In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abcess.

  Dave Barry

  Food, Mean, Wind

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• Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.

  Alain de Botton

  Style, Mind, May

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, 2000.

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

  Edith Sitwell

  Pool, Catfish, Electric

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

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• I eat cold eels and think distant thoughts.

  Jack Johnson

  Thinking, Cold

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• Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn't mean I'm an eel-and-pie yob.

  Michael Caine

  Mean, Class, Pie

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• Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, Snakes, Assembly

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• Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Faith, Atheist

  Voltaire (1919). “Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence”

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• Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.

  Arthur Golden

  Doctors, Sweat, Territory

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.283, Random House

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• Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!" "No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?" "Not such a waste of time as talking to you!

  Georgette Heyer

  Talking, Waste, Wasting Time

  Georgette Heyer (2011). “Black Sheep”, p.43, Random House

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