Fishes Quotes - Page 15

• If you don't like my ocean don't fish in my sea
  Stay out of my valley and let my mountain be.

  Ma Rainey

  Ocean, Sea, Mountain

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• In the ambiguity and shifting playing field of adult life, I often wish I could just fill in a dot and have someone say “Yes” and hand me a chicken leg, or “No” and slap me with an old fish.

  Rob Delaney

  Hands, Wish, Fields

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• My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?

  Charlie Trotter

  Wine, White, People

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• The rumors of Frank Sinatras violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.

  Kitty Kelley

  Writing, Sleep, Ties

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• The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.

  Arthur Golden

  Guts, Ifs, Corridors

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.24, Random House

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• We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the ability to fly as morally valuable per se. If we were fish, we would proclaim the ability to live underwater as morally valuable per se. But apart from our obviously self-interested proclamations, there is nothing morally valuable per se about human intelligence.

  Gary L. Francione

  Self, Bird, Underwater

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• When I'm in the water I feel as though nothing bad has happened. I think about the fish, how they don't know what's going on. Their world is unchanged. Actually it's probably better now to be a tuna or a sardine or a salmon. Less chance of ending up as somebody's lunch.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Thinking, Lunch, Water

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In books there's nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.

  Steve Aylett

  Stars, Book, Sea

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• You can be vegetarian and eat fish. Its your choice, just say: I am what I am. There are no hardcore divisions anymore.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Choices, Division, Vegetarian

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• Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many north African fish dishes.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Block, Spices, Heat

  "Yotam Ottolenghi's recipes for roasted rhubarb with sweet labneh, plus halibut and harissa stew with lemon ricotta" by Yotam Ottolenghi, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.

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• Dont be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.

  Young-Ha Kim

  Water, Swim, Frogs

  Young-ha Kim (2010). “Your Republic Is Calling You”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.

  Barton Seaver

  People, Restaurants, Dishes

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• Fish and guests in three days are stale.

  John Lyly

  Three, Modern Life, Guests

  John Lyly (1916). “Euphues”

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• People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.

  Sylvia Earle

  Fishing, People, Technique

  "Can We Stop Killing Our Oceans Now, Please?" by Sylvia Earle, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2013.

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• Anyhow, there simply isnt enough room in the museums Fishes Hall, so weve decided to pretend to the public that a whale is actually a mammal without any legs. Its pathetically ridiculous-I mean to say, just look at the thing, its a gigantic fish if I ever saw one-but mums the word! In my experience the public will believe just about anything, so long as you write it down on a little piece of card.

  Gideon Defoe

  Believe, Mean, Writing

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• God is closer to us than water is to a fish.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Water

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• Fish got to swim, birds got to fly.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Bird, Swim

  "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" (song) (1927)

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• In my first stand-up acts there wasn't material even. You know, I'd go on stage and cry and read a Dear John letter or gut fish on stage. I could be odd - and it's what interested me as a comedian.

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Comedian, Goes On, Letters

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Water, Depth, Obscurity

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• Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land;
  Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hands, Sea, Land

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish;
  Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly;
  So to the brave man every land's a home.

  Ovid

  Lying, Home, Blow

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• Poor fish of Rodondo! in your victimized confidence, you are of the number of those who inconsiderately trust, while they do not understand, human nature.

  Herman Melville

  Numbers, Human Nature, Poor

  Herman Melville (2016). “Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories”, p.109, Penguin

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• If you keep working you'll last longer. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.

  Harold Geneen

  Hate, Work, Trying

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• The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the air, flowing water, the sea and the seashore were common to all.

  Charles Clover

  Writing, Men, Air

  Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.151, Univ of California Press

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• Celebrity chefs are the leaders in the field of food, and we are the led. Why should the leaders of chemical businesses be held responsible for polluting the marine environment with a few grams of effluent, which is sublethal to marine species, while celebrity chefs are turning out endangered fish at several dozen tables a night without enduring a syllable of criticism?

  Charles Clover

  Marine, Night, Sea

  Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.189, Univ of California Press

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