Fishes Quotes - Page 17

• When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.

  P. L. Travers

  Children, Sea, Swim

  13 Copy quote

• The people are like water and the army is like fish.

  Mao Zedong

  Army, People, Water

  7 Copy quote

• Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practise toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Summer, Sports, Spring

  7 Copy quote

• English literature is a flying fish.

  E. M. Forster

  Fishing, Flying, Literature

  5 Copy quote

• [Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Flower, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.374, Cambridge University Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each fish swim its own course.--Morning brings more than love. And I want to be true to the morning.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Morning, Swimming

  D. H. Lawrence (1995). “The Plumed Serpent”, p.372, Wordsworth Editions

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The tiny fish enjoy themselves
  in the sea.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sea, Tiny, Enjoy

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.221, ReadHowYouWant.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin
  she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea
  she is the female tunny-fish, round and happy among the males
  and dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Gay, Dark, Blood

  David Herbert Lawrence, “Whales Weep Not!”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Men, Views

  "A feather on the breath of God" by Nur Elmessiri, Al-Ahram Weekly Online, Issue 385, July 9-15, 1998.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.

  Philip K. Dick

  Running, Numbers, Host

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Transmigration of Timothy Archer”, p.227, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Lakes, Rivers

  14 Copy quote

• The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, "All summer in the field, and all winter in the study." And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Education, Winter

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1523, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We live in story like a fish lives in water. We swim through words and images siphoning story through our minds the way a fish siphons water through its gills. We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

  Christina Baldwin

  Thinking, Water, Swim

  Christina Baldwin (2010). “Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story”, p.77, New World Library

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long.

  Vince Poscente

  Growing Up, Long, Tanks

  Vince Poscente (2002). “Invinceable Principles: Essential Tools for Life Mastery”, Invinceaility Series

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everything seems beautiful because you don't understand. Those flying fish, they're not leaping for joy, they're jumping in terror. Bigger fish want to eat them. That luminous water, it takes its gleam from millions of tiny dead bodies, the glitter of putrescence. There's no beauty here, only death and decay.

  Curt Siodmak

  Beauty, Beautiful, Jumping

  "Fictional character: Paul Holland". "I Walked with a Zombie", www.imdb.com. 1943.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• We know the only fish that goes with the flow is a dead fish.

  Sarah Palin

  Flow, Knows

  4 Copy quote

• One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do... I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up... I wait for a situation that is like the proverbial "shooting fish in a barrel."

  Jim Rogers

  Lying, Waiting, Investing

  "Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders". Book by Jack D. Schwager, 1989.

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's just one of those deals where I have to keep moving and keep looking. It's a lot about timing and a lot about boat-positioning, and I'm just trying to get fish to react to several different baits.

  Kevin VanDam

  Moving, Trying, Bait

  10 Copy quote

• I know I'm a long way from greatness, but I am beginning to come at it in my own way. I can go through the basic motions pretty well, don't rely quite as religiously on specific fly patterns as I once did, have worked out ways of compensating for some of my most egregious weaknesses and have come to count heavily on timing because it's a hell of a lot easier to catch fish when the fish are biting.

  John Gierach

  Greatness, Long, Patterns

  John Gierach (2010). “Standing in a River Waving a Stick”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

  44 Copy quote

  Show source

• The president is that invisible force that makes a school of fish suddenly change direction, so that everyone 'ohhs' and 'ahhs' at the glimmering mass and only later wonders what makes them move in that way. I read somewhere-_Harper's_, I'm fairly certain-that the fish are only avoiding pockets of extra cold water.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Moving, School, Water

  4 Copy quote

• I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Philosophy, Perfect, Soup

  Elbert Hubbard (1898). “As it Seems to Me: Being Some Philistine Essays Concerning Several Things”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's nice, when fishing, to catch a fish. But it doesn't really matter if you don't. What you always catch is a quiet time sitting at the water's edge, or in a gently rocking boat, a silent time of water and sky and the movement of natural things.

  Ruth Rudner

  Nice, Fishing, Sky

  Ruth Rudner (1978). “Forgotten pleasures: a guide for the seasonal adventurer”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now. I eat a lot of tofu, and I drink soy shakes with fruit every morning. I always have soybeans, black beans, or chickpeas for lunch or dinner

  Shania Twain

  Morning, Eggs, Lunch

  4 Copy quote

• If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian.

  Douglas Adams

  Atheist, Italian, Thinking

  Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is impossible that a fish doesn't carry any smell of the sea and a real love, of the melancholy!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Real, Sea

  4 Copy quote