Fishes Quotes - Page 22

• The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish.

  Otto von Bismarck

  People, East, Lucky

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• Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Memories, Butterfly, Mean

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.10, Granta Books

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• Giving a man a fish feeds him for one meal. Teaching a man to fish feeds him for a lifetime. As parents and gospel instructors, you and I are not in the business of distributing fish; rather, our work is to help our children learn 'to fish.'

  David A. Bednar

  Children, Teaching, Men

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• Fish without wine is like egg without salt.

  Auguste Escoffier

  Wine, Eggs, Salt

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• You see, in the image of Aquarius, it's a man who pours water into the fish. Now the fish is the unconscious. It is not enough just to have it. We have to actively turn towards it and support it so that it then helps us.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Men, Aquarius, Water

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• When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach

  Peter Ustinov

  Drink, Stomach, Refuse

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• In the case of my second film The Fish Child (El Niño Pez), I had written the novel about 5 years before I made into a film. In the case of The German Doctor I had published the novel a year before I started writing the script, I even had another project to shoot. But I had this idea of the powerful cinematic language from the novel that I couldn't let go of.

  Lucia Puenzo

  Letting Go, Children, Powerful

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Nowadays it's those hedonistic wastrels who pollute the air so that they can look at some pretty fish in the South Seas. It would be better if we only ever rode bikes. Oh, there's always someone wagging a finger in disapproval.

  Hans von Storch

  Air, Sea, Would Be

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I love the water more than anything. I'm not very good at sunbathing - I get really bored. I love swimming and I love being like a fish and getting in the sea and just - I don't know, it feels right.

  Beth Orton

  Swimming, Love Is, Sea

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

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• In a recent interview, Hillary Clinton said that one of the jobs that prepared her to be president was sliming fish in Alaska. As opposed to Bill, who learned by catching crabs in Cancun.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Jobs, Alaska, President

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• The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend, partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use - these two factors being, of course, determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch. By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants. History means interpretation.

  Edward Hallett Carr

  Ocean, Mean, Swimming

  Edward Hallett Carr (1965). “What is History?”

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• Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not before you have read Thomas Mann in any case. Learn by copying, sentence by sentence some of the masters. Copy Coetzee's or Sebald's sentences and see what happens to your story. Consider creative non-fiction if you want to stay in South Africa. It might be the way to go. Never neglect back and hamstring exercises, otherwise you won't be able to write your novel. One needs one's buttocks to think.

  Marlene van Niekerk

  Writing, Exercise, Thinking

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• Could there be a more hilarious sad sack than Duncan Leland, whose trials and tribulations, so wittily conveyed, had me laughing (and wincing) from the first page? Hart's Maine landscape is rich with eccentric characters, dried fish, and other surprising and original treasures. While Duncan sinks, the reader will float on a cloud nine of classy entertainment.

  Mameve Medwed

  Character, Clouds, Laughing

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• I think the best advice I ever got about acting was from my dad, which was, 'If they don't buy the fish on the first toss, throw it back in the wagon and go to the second house.' Which is like an old Jewish fishmongers' story about how you become a successful fish monger.

  Lin Shaye

  Dad, Successful, Thinking

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• I am a pisces, a fish out of water, searching for a way back home.

  James Kidd

  Home, Water, Way

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• Increasingly, we will be faced with a choice: whether to keep the oceans for wild fish or farmed fish. Farming domesticated species in close proximity with wild fish will mean that domesticated fish always win. Nobody in the world of policy appears to be asking what is best for society, wild fish or farmed fish. And what sort of farmed fish, anyway? Were this question to be asked, and answered honestly, we might find that our interests lay in prioritizing wild fish and making their ecosystems more productive by leaving them alone enough of the time.

  Charles Clover

  Ocean, Mean, Winning

  Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.313, Univ of California Press

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• Aquarium fishes even if they only imagine going to a lake, the windows of that aquarium will become thinner than before.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Lakes, Aquariums, Window

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• Big fish eats small fish; oceans need revolution! Big man beats little man; world needs revolution! Big galaxies swallow little galaxies; universe needs revolution! Anything which is not ethical needs a strong revolution!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Strong, Ocean, Men

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• Fisherman deceives the fish with bait; this action makes the fisherman dishonest! For a fisherman to be honest, he must not put any bait to his fishhook! He who dares to be ideally honest, let him know how hard it is to be such an honest!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Bait, Action, Honest

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• For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Ocean, Men

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• Frog in a little pond can be much happier than fish in a vast ocean!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ocean, Ponds, Littles

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• Every time I caught a fish, I wondered how something so small could have such clear, pure strength. It kept reminding me of another sensation, from another realm. The fish on the line, I eventually realized, felt like the baby, kicking inside you. Or the shocking, life-hungry pull of the baby on the breast. Perhaps fishing is like quickening for men, a long and patient wait for a few electric moments when they feel connected to another life.

  Marni Jackson

  Baby, Men, Fishing

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• Fish farming, even with conventional techniques, changes fish within a few generations from an animal like a wild buffalo or a wildebeest to the equivalent of a domestic cow.

  Charles Clover

  Change, Animal, Cows

  Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.312, Univ of California Press

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• Domesticated salmon, after several generations, are fat, listless things that are good at putting on weight, not swimming up fast-moving rivers. When they get into a river and breed with wild fish, they can damage the wild fish's prospects of surviving to reproduce.

  Charles Clover

  Moving, Swimming, Rivers

  Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.312, Univ of California Press

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• People say 'go with the flow' but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish.

  Roy Keane

  People, Flow, Knows

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