Fishes Quotes - Page 34

• The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Men, Lakes

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.85, BookBaby

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• I have read many studies out of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and they demonstrated that Vitamin E, Co-Q-10, and Fish Oil could protect the immune system of athletes and prevent disease.

  Bill Toomey

  Athlete, Oil, Sweden

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• If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook.

  Lee Trevino

  Fishing, Focus, Hook

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• If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.

  Don Van Vliet

  School, Want, Different

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

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• A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up, in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel. And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo hitherto unseen, with all gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us. The golden and silver fish haunted the river.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stars, Flower, Gay

  Edgar Allan Poe (2009). “The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.314, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.

  Winston Churchill

  Long, Waiting, Invasion

  Radio broadcast to French people, 21 Oct. 1940

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• Laughter nibbled at my lips like tiny fish in warm water.

  Anne Rivers Siddons

  Laughter, Water, Tiny

  Anne Rivers Siddons (1994). “Downtown”, G K Hall & Company

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• Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish.

  Raymond Chandler

  Mean, Hands, People

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Simple Art of Murder”, p.19, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland)

  Douglas Adams

  Snakes, People, Drs

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.21, Ballantine Books

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• A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Horse, Stars, Men

  Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (2004). “Aleph and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.

  Douglas Adams

  War, Communication, Race

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her. Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

  Robert Hass

  Distance, Silly, Hands

  Robert Hass, “Meditation At Lagunitas”

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• As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Animal, Men, Principles

  "Enemies, A Love Story" by Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (p. 257), 1972.

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• Go and see whether the Doctor is about,’ said Jack, ‘and if he is, ask him to look in, when he has a moment.’ Which he is in the fish-market, turning over some old-fashioned lobsters. No. I tell a lie. That is him, falling down the companion-way and cursing in foreign.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Lying, Fall, Doctors

  Patrick O'Brian (2000). “Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.281, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Discovery, Water, Knows

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• Birds are the last of the dinosaurs. Tiny velociraptors with wings. Devouring defenseless wiggly things and, and nuts, and fish, and, and other birds. They get the early worms. And have you ever watched a chicken eat? They may look innocent, but birds are, well, they're vicious.

  Neil Gaiman

  Nuts, Wings, Bird

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Anansi Boys”, p.152, Hachette UK

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• I was under the stars, like a fish is under water.

  Shannon Hale

  Stars, Water

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• Fish cannot carry guns.

  Philip K. Dick

  Gun

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “VALIS”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage.

  Robert Fulghum

  Family, Mother, Hands

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• It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!

  Eugene O'Neill

  Life, Mistake, Home

  Eugene O'Neill, Harold Bloom (2009). “Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night”, p.79, Infobase Publishing

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• Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

  Scott Adams

  Life, Food, Men

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.448, Penguin

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• Something that had been a single cell, a cluster of cells, a little sac of tissue, a kind of worm, a potential fish with gills, stirred in her womb and would one day become a man--a grown man, suffering and enjoying, loving and hating, thinking, remembering, imagining. And what had been a blob of jelly within her body would invent a god and worship; what had been a kind of fish would create, and, having created, would become the battleground of disputing good and evil; what had blindly lived in her as a parasitic worm would look at the stars, would listen to music, would read poetry.

  Aldous Huxley

  Stars, Hate, Men

  Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same with books.

  Lois Lowry

  Book, Tuna Fish, Giving

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• You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye

  Margaret Atwood

  Eye, Hook, Fit

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems, 1965-1975”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

  Jim Harrison

  Dog, Rivers, Mountain

  Jim Harrison (2016). “Wolf”, p.108, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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