Fishes Quotes - Page 25

• A fish is free as long as it stays in the water. If it suddenly declares that it wants its freedom to fly in the air like a bird, disaster occurs. A train is free as long as it stays on the track. However, if it demands freedom to take off down a major highway, the result is destruction and devastation. We too can only experience true freedom in its fullest if we remain within the framework of freedom. Often this requires accepting responsibility and practicing discipline.

  Gigi Graham

  Responsibility, Air, Discipline

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• We live in media, as fish live in water.

  Ted Nelson

  Media, Water

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• Sex can be great in your seventies - no Viagra needed - and it certainly beats fish and chips.

  Paul Daniels

  Sex, Viagra, Chips

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• I'm grew up a huge fan of The Three Stooges and Monty Python, so somebody getting slapped in the face with a fish, or falling out of a chair, or running into a door, or tripping over their own feet and eating it, is all stuff I find really, really funny.

  Thomas Sadoski

  Running, Fall, Python

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• Everybody knows that smiling is for little girls, the gays and certain kinds of fish who are smiling by accident.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Girl, Gay, Littles

  Buddy Wakefield (2013). “Live for a Living”, p.14, SCB Distributors

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• The best advice I ever got was from Lee Iacocca.... It was get into a business where you can be a big fish, not the little fish. Get into a business where you can be a change agent, where you can make a difference.

  Marcus Lemonis

  Differences, Advice, Big Fish

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• Scotch needs water like a fish needs a bicycle.

  W. C. Fields

  Scotch, Water, Needs

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• I think the reason why we got into such idiocy in investment management is best illustrated by a story that I tell about the guy who sold fishing tackle. I asked him, "My God, they're purple and green. Do fish really take these lures?" And he said, "Mister, I don't sell to fish." Investment managers are in the position of that fishing tackle salesman.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Fishing, Purple

  "A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom as it Relates to Investment Management and Business". Charlie Munger's lecture to the students at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, 1994.

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• It's all about portion control. Grilled fish, a small amount of wild rice and vegetables is a good meal.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Vegetables, Meals, Portion Control

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• There are over a million types of fish in the sea as there are flowers in all of the world's gardens. There are at least a million different types of rocks/minerals as there are species of birds or monkeys. To believe we are the only "intelligent beings" on this earth and beyond is ignorance. The possible configurations of lifeforms that could be created from a single atom are infinite. There are at least a billion people on this earth, and no two faces look the same. It is very arrogant to assume that we have seen all of God's miracles.

  Suzy Kassem

  Believe, Flower, Ignorance

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• Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Air, Water, Bird

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• There's a current notion that you should "take charge of your disease." No thanks. I'm busy. I've got cancer. I'm willing to face having cancer. I'm not willing to face having cancer with homework. I promised Dr. Pipas and Dr. Zaki that I wouldn't show up with sheaves of printouts from the Internet containing everything on Wikipedia on malignancies. They each laughed with detectable notes of relief. Although I suspect my wife has made her way into the health blog ether. Fish oil pills, raw kelp, and other untoward substances started showing up on dinner plates after I was diagnosed.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cancer, Oil, Wife

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• I remember at one point being in fellowship, and everyone used to wear the fish symbol; it said you were a Christian. So I asked my father, 'Dad, why don't you wear that at work?' And he said, 'Your religion should be in your actions.' He set a great, great example.

  Hugh Jackman

  Christian, Dad, Father

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• Big Fish was the first movie that we worked on together, and I had already written it. We had another director, but that director didn't do it. So, it was just a Hail Mary to Tim, and Tim said that he wanted to do it and I was like, "That's fantastic!" But, there wasn't a lot of collaboration because he knew what he wanted to do and just did it. There were very minor changes for Big Fish.

  John August

  Big Fish, Together, Directors

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• The producers and I first talked about the Big Fish musical, right before we did the first test screening of the movie. I said, "I think there's a Broadway musical here." And really, from that day, we started figuring out how we would do it.

  John August

  Thinking, Musical, Big Fish

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• Like Frankenweenie is a story about a boy and his dog, Big Fish is the story of a father and his son, and all those conversations you can't have. It's universal, in a way that can go from one medium to another medium. That's been the funnest, figuring out what we can do in a Broadway show that's unique and special.

  John August

  Dog, Father, Son

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• I've always written towards movies that take place across two worlds. Most of the movies that I've worked on take place in two worlds, or sometimes three worlds, where you have a normal world and a fantasy world that mix and overlap. I never shy away from the series stuff in the real world. Big Fish is about mortality.

  John August

  Real, Two, Big Fish

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• When I was a kid, I felt like I could do anything and play anything. I just felt super-confident. And then, once I started to play music professionally, maybe it's from being from a small town, but you grow up and then you're suddenly a big fish in a small pond, and I realized that there were a billion other drummers out there that could play as good as you or better, and everybody wants that job.

  Patty Schemel

  Jobs, Growing Up, Kids

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• Obama's Marxist mentors - Franklin Marshall Davis, Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers - also understood that you don't build an army of street organizers or a recurring voting constituency by teaching people of the streets to fish. When you 'share wealth around' you make the distributees dependent on your next handout - beholden to your largesse with other's people's money and personally worse off in every respect.

  David Limbaugh

  Teaching, Army, People

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• One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and bred in captivity, then released into the wild-into its ancestral sea-its limited world instantly blowing up when cast into the unknowable depths, seeing strange fish and tasting new waters, not even having a concept of depth, not knowing the language of any whale pods it might meet. It was my fear of a world that would expand suddenly, violently, and without rules or laws: bubbles and seaweed and storms and frightening volumes of dark blue that never end.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dark, Knowing, Blue

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• What's clarity like? Try to remember that funny feeling inside your head when you had math problems too difficult to solve: the faint buzzing noise in your ears, a heaviness on both sides of your skull, and the sensation that your brain is twitching inside your cranium like a fish on the beach. This is the opposite sensation of clarity. Yet for many people of my era, as they aged, this sensation became the dominant sensation of their lives. It was as though day-to-day twentieth century living had become an unsolvable algebraic equation.

  Douglas Coupland

  Beach, Math, Skulls

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• If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.

  Margaret Mead

  Water, Would Be, Lasts

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• I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Air, Water

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3924, Delphi Classics

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• Some people like being a big fish in a small pond, others a ferocious shark in the ocean, I rather be the ocean. In the end, fish die.

  Behdad Sami

  Ocean, Sharks, People

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• Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of.

  Henry Rollins

  Want, Kind

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