Fins Quotes - Page 3

• If you ain't nothing when you get money and fame, you're just going to be more nothing. If you don't stand for nothing, when you get money and fame, you ain't suddenly fin to stand for nothing! You're just fin to be richer and more famous - standing for nothing!

  Steve Harvey

  Get Money, Fame, Standing

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Better a dish of husks to the accompaniment of a muted lute than to be satiated with stewed shark's fin and rich spiced wine of which the cost is frequently mentioned by the provider.

  Ernest Bramah

  Wine, Sharks, Cost

  Ernest Bramah (1963). “The Celestial Omnibus”

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• Sometimes I wish I had every different sort of board that I could just bring out for this surf when I feeling like surfing this board. I love riding old single fins and twin fins.

  Mick Fanning

  Feelings, Surfing, Wish

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• Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents; and what it invents is, first, the fabric and cadence of language, and then a slant of idea that sails out of these as a fin lifts from the sea.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Sea, Ideas, Vacuums

  Cynthia Ozick (2006). “The Din in the Head”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You can't afford to make the shark look good so you do most of it with ominous music and a fin.

  Jim Howick

  Sharks, Looks, Ominous

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Cats can derive their nutrition from the air they breathe until you get the message that the Fish Fin Buffet you put in their bowl three days ago will never be acceptable.

  Kathy Young

  Cat, Air, Three

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• If the creatures with fur/feathers/fins are our brothers in a lower stage of development then their very weakness and inability to protest, demands that man should refrain from torturing them for the mere possibility of obtaining some knowledge which he believes may be to his own interest.

  Luther Burbank

  Brother, Believe, Animal

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• We keep the negative stuff because it's the negative stuff that's going to, you know, potentially kill us. That fin in the water - maybe it is a shark. That yellow thing behind the tree - maybe it is a lion. You need to be scared.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Sharks, Yellow, Water

  Source: www.npr.org

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