Fishes Quotes - Page 36

• It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Hooked, Happenings, Hard

  Karl A. Menninger (1953). “the Human Mind”

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• They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many fish in it. Get rid of some of the fish and the water will drop. Simple. Basic science.

  Karl Pilkington

  Ocean, Simple, Sea

  "3 Minute Wonder", Episode 4, www.pilkipedia.co.uk. August 17, 2006.

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• There is a natural hootchy-kootchy motion to a goldfish.

  Walt Disney

  Goldfish, Natural

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• How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some nights so hard I thought I could enter him, open his back at the spine like a door or a curtain and slip in like a small fish between his ribs, nudge the coral of his brains with my lips, brushing over the blue coil of his bowels with the fluted silk of my tail.

  Dorianne Laux

  Night, Blue, Doors

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• We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Brother, Yoga

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• Nerrissa? You believe her? Well, you at least have to credit her with a certain instability! Remember when she told you that I was going to take over the Fount with and army of Lobsters?" said Ripred. You did try to take over the Fount with an army of Lobsters." said Vikus. Yes, yes, but it was years before she was born. My point is, she flip-flops in and out of time like a fish in shallow waters." answered Ripred.

  Suzanne Collins

  Believe, Army, Years

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• I won't get killed,' Rose protested. Is that a promise?' Fish asked dryly, stirring his tea. 'If you break your word, I'll never believe you again.' Rose shook her head at him. 'How can you even taste your tea if you put that much sugar in it?' Don't change the subject. I don't want to be responsible for depriving the world of Rose Brier. Under no circumstances are you allowed to help us do anything more dangerous than...change the oil in my car.

  Regina Doman

  Believe, Oil, Car

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• Bear heard Rose in the background saying, 'Why thank you, Mr. Fish.' 'Good redhead. Helpful redhead,' Fish returned.

  Regina Doman

  Rose, Bears, Helpful

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• There's a Polar Bear In our Frigidaire-- He likes it 'cause it's cold in there. With his seat in the meat And his face in the fish And his big hairy paws In the buttery dish, He's nibbling the noodles, And munching the rice, He's slurping the soda, He's licking the ice. And he lets out a roar If you open the door. And it gives me a scare To know he's in there-- That Polary Bear In our Fridgitydaire.

  Shel Silverstein

  Doors, Ice, Giving

  Shel Silverstein, “Bear In There”

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• For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles of giant weeds, over sun-flickered spaces and on and on into gloom, cold, deep, inscrutable; suddenly she shoots to the surface and sports on the wind-wrinkled waves; that is, has a positive need to brush, scrape, kindle herself, gossiping.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sports, Weed, Wind

  Virginia Woolf (1996). “Mrs Dalloway”, p.117, Wordsworth Editions

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• There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sea, Mackerel, Mass

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.37, D. H. Lawrence

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• Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.

  Thomas Szasz

  Errors, Whales, Feelings

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• Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Home, Tuna Fish, Nuts

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.77, Pushkin Press

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• Maybe i would become a mermaid... i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed by sea anemones, caressed by seaweed shawls. I would have a doliphin friend. He would have merry eyes and thick flesh of a god. My fingernails would be tiny shells and my skin would be like jade with light shining through it I would never have to come back up

  Francesca Lia Block

  Eye, Light, Blue

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• Odd's fish, m'dear! The man can't even tie his own cravat!

  Baroness Orczy

  Men, Ties, Odd

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• Justice and mercy/ Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Dream, Justice, Bird

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (2001). “The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers”, p.687, Stanford University Press

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• You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string.

  Julian Barnes

  Views, Two, Together

  Julian Barnes (1985). “Flaubert's parrot”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.

  Alice Sebold

  Names, Salmon, Firsts

  The Lovely Bones ch. 1 (2002)

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• Cofishes-other fish in a group, coworkers, cohorts, etc. Shut up, it's a word.

  Christopher Moore

  Groups, Etc, Coworker

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Fool: A Novel”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.

  Herbert Hoover

  Calm, Patient, Inspiring Presidential

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• No, mademoiselle, I would not like to see the children's menu. I have no doubt that the children's menu itself tastes better than the meals on it. I would like to order à la carte. Or don't you serve fish to minors?

  Eoin Colfer

  Children, Order, Doubt

  Eoin Colfer (2005). “Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code - Book #3”, Miramax

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• If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?

  T. H. White

  Men, Years, Reptiles

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.489, Penguin

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• This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sea, Bigs, Salty

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.231, Random House

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• The main courtyard was filled with warriors - mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before.Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Warrior, Swimming

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.28, Penguin UK

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• Daisy looked up at him with the kind of expression that Jesus might have given someone who had just explained that he was probably allergic to bread and fishes, so could He possibly do him a quick chicken salad.

  Neil Gaiman

  Jesus, Expression, Might

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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