Fishes Quotes - Page 13

• Writing for the theater is a whole different can of fish. The music now has the responsibility of so many things. The plot could be giving you different views of the character; the emotional highlights of a moment.

  Frank Wildhorn

  Responsibility, Writing, Character

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2004.

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• No loose fish enters our quiet bay.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Quiet, Discrimination, Bigotry

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• Wood may remain twenty years in the water, but it is still not a fish.

  Jane Yolen

  Years, Essence, Water

  Jane Yolen (2016). “Sister Light, Sister Dark”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• Fish are not the best authority on water.

  Jane Yolen

  Ignorance, Water, Unawareness

  Jane Yolen (2016). “White Jenna”, p.178, Open Road Media

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• Now, if we understand what unlucky persons are, we shall see that they are to be shunned, or that we are to consort with them only out of kindness or from sympathy, but without joining our interests with theirs; for they are persons who are not harmonious with the condition of things around them, and are as much at issue with life as a bird who should try to live in the water, or a fish to float in the air.

  James Vila Blake

  Kindness, Issues, Air

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• The Fulton Fish Market will be more of an odor than a landmark at this time of day, but it really swings out at four o'clock in the morning - another Timothy 'Speed' Levitch recommendation if you can't sleep and you like fish.

  Timothy Levitch

  Morning, Sleep, Swings

  "The Cruise". Documentary, October 23, 1998.

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• Throw a lucky man into water and he'll surface with a fish in his mouth.

  Julian Tuwim

  Men, Water, Lucky

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• caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a prophet's epiphanies.

  Barbara Hurd

  Nature, Adventure, Space

  Barbara Hurd (2005). “Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.

  Lech Walesa

  Lakes, Fishing, Ifs

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• A plate of food has to have balance. For example, a mild fish like skate mustnt be overwhelmed by the side dishes. They should have personality and color, but they also have to be subtle.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Color, Should Have, Personality

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• No pills, not even aspirin, and certainly no supplements ever enter my mouth - everything I need comes from my fish and vegetarian diet, which incorporates many different kinds of fruit and vegetables every week.

  David H. Murdock

  Vegetarian Diet, Vegetables, Pills

  "My Healthy, Weekly Shopping List" by David H. Murdock, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2011.

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• We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with Shooting Fish. Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.

  Dan Futterman

  Silly, Dumb, Shooting

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. May 13, 1998.

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• I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I have a whole ecosystem in my room, like a running waterfall and different lights and sensors set on digital timers.

  Chris Pratt

  Running, Light, Ecosystems

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

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• I'm a passionate, hardcore fisherman. Biggest fish I caught? A 200-pound tarpon.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Pounds, Passionate, Hardcore

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• The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.

  Horace

  Hook, Pits, Hawks

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• Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.

  George Eliot

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner, and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.123

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• I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Angel, Dust

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures”, p.17

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• Work is my recreation,
  The play of faculty; a delight like that
  Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish
  In darting through the water,--Nothing more.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Work, Play, Water

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.88, Wildside Press LLC

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• I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish.
  [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]

  George Herbert

  Taken

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• In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.

  George Herbert

  Rivers, Bees, Found

  George Herbert (1959). “The works of George Herbert”

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• It's no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.

  George Herbert

  Bows

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.329

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• O execrable son! so to aspire
  Above his brethren, to himself assuming
  Authority usurped, from God not given.
  He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl,
  Dominion absolute; that right we hold
  By his donation; but man over men
  He made not lord; such title to himself
  Reserving, human left from human free.

  John Milton

  Son, Men, Titles

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.365

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• My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.

  Joanna Lumley

  Mother, Dog, Believe

  "Joanna Lumley: Animals Are Just Like Us". Interview with Dan Mathews, www.peta.org. December 6, 2010.

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• I just learned how to scuba dive. Id been scared to rely on one little air hose for oxygen, but swimming with all those fish is exhilarating.

  Cheryl Hines

  Swimming, Air, Oxygen

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• I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds; I like to fish in the pond and I always throw the fish back.

  Johnny Cash

  Bird, Cabins, Ponds

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