Fishes Quotes - Page 35

• Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Soul, Horizon, World

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.231, University of Illinois Press

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• For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Beach, Ocean

  E. E. Cummings, “Maggie And Milly And Molly And May”

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• You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally--that's the worst, I think, deficient morals. (Saving Fish From Drowning)

  Amy Tan

  Thinking, People, Mind

  Amy Tan (2012). “Saving Fish From Drowning”, p.15, HarperCollins UK

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• An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Dream, Memories, Gold

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• "You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?" "Not even a little bit." I showed him that I still had both arms and both legs, and Tyson clapped happily. "Yay!" he said. "Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!" I hoped he didn't mean all at the same time, but I told him absolutely, we'd have a lot of fun this summer.

  Rick Riordan

  Summer, Fun, Mean

  "Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth". Book by Rick Riordan, May 6, 2008.

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• "I can talk to fish!" Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. "Ask one over for dinner," Fang said, joining us.

  James Patterson

  Angel, Long, Water

  "Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever". Book by James Patterson, May, 2006.

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• She couldn’t picture anyone falling madly in love with such a person as Fish. What a name, Fish...Fish: think cold, slippery, detached. Benedict: think dry scholarly monk from the Dark Ages. Denniston: think English preparatory school, stolid country squire. Nothing about his name sounded the least bit romantic.

  Regina Doman

  Country, Fall, School

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• It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that eye was now. Was it alive and swimming, or had it died long ago, or was it dying now, right this second? When a whale dies, it falls down through the ocean slowly, over the course of a day. All the other fish see it fall, like a giant statue, like a building, but slowly, slowly.

  Miranda July

  Wise, Real, Ocean

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the middle of the room, and then they all shot past me with a rush and out of the front door; and all that was left of the mobscene was the head of a whacking big fish, lying on the carpet and staring up at me in a rather austere sort of way, as if it wanted a written explanation and apology.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Lying, Cat, Apology

  P. G. Wodehouse (2016). “Expecting Jeeves”, p.34, Courier Dover Publications

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• There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.

  James Dean

  Water, Choices, Swim

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• A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.

  James Schuyler

  Wild Beauty, Rivers, Water

  James Schuyler (1972). “The Crystal Lithium-Pa”, Random House (NY)

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• Listen," he said. "If you was a fish, Mother Nature'd take care of you, wouldn't she? Right? You don't think them fish just die when it gets to be winter, do ya?" No, but--" You're goddam right they don't

  J. D. Salinger

  Mother, Winter, Thinking

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• No toys in the fish tank

  Cynthia Lord

  Tanks, Fish Tanks, Toys

  Karen Hesse, Cynthia Rylant, Cynthia Lord, Ann M. Martin (2013). “Scholastic Newbery Collection”, p.555, Scholastic Inc.

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• You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?

  Amy Tan

  Saving, Pay, Intention

  Amy Tan (2005). “Saving Fish from Drowning”, p.125, Penguin

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• Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Relationship, Death, Special You

  "Survivor". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, February 17, 1999.

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• How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly he spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in, With gently smiling jaws!

  Lewis Carroll

  Water, Shining, Tails

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 2 (1865)

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• Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom. All my trust is now in him- and in myself. But above all in him, for when I go under he always fishes me out, seizing and shaking me like a life-saving dog whose teeth tear my skin a little every time. So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Dog, Miracle, Luck

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• How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark." "A whale isn't a fish, Thursday." "A whale shark is--sort of." "All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish." "A crayfish isn't a fish." "A starfish, then." "Still not a fish." "This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.

  Jasper Fforde

  Sharks, Whales, Thursday

  Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult

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• Wow. Who would want a fish for a pet when they could have a turtle?!

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  Turtles, Pet, Want

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• I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.

  Jack Kerouac

  Silly, Want, Belief

  Letter to Ed White (5 July 1950), as published in "The Missouri Review", Vol. XVII, No. 3, (p. 137), 1994.

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• But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people - men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.

  Amy Tan

  Children, Men, People

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club: A Novel”, p.19, Penguin

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• I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.

  Alice Walker

  Successful, Expression, Order

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• We gather at night to celebrate being human. Sometimes we call out low to the tambourine. Fish drink the sea, but the sea does not get smaller! We eat the clouds and evening light. We are slaves tasting the royal wine.

  Rumi

  Wine, Night, Clouds

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• I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Water, Rooms, Left

  Ivan Turgenev (2012). “First Love and the Diary of a Superfluous Man”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• Anything that suffers and dies instead of us is Christ; if they didn't kill birds and fish they would have killed us. The animals die that we may live, they are substitute people, hunters in the fall killing the deer, that is Christ also. And we eat them, out of cans or otherwise; we are eaters of death, dead Christ-flesh resurrecting inside us, granting us life. Canned Spam, canned Jesus, even the plants must be Christ.

  Margaret Atwood

  Jesus, Fall, Animal

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