Fishes Quotes - Page 37

• Gee, You're so Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain Oh, Marcia, I want your long blonde beauty to be taught in high school, so kids will learn that God lives like music in the skin and sounds like a sunshine harpsicord. I want high school report cards to look like this: Playing with Gentle Glass Things A Computer Magic A Writing Letters to Those You Love A Finding out about Fish A Marcia's Long Blonde Beauty A+!

  Richard Brautigan

  Beautiful, Rain, Writing

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I catch a flash of red-gold beneath the surface of the water, and realize that there are koi in the pond, massive, serene, and I wonder: are they dreams of fish, or fish who dream?

  Sarah Monette

  Dream, Water, Gold

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• The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse. There is no certainty that God actually did grant man dominion over other creatures. What seems more likely, in fact, is that man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he usurped for himself over the cow and the horse.

  Milan Kundera

  Horse, Men, Order

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1884.

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• We really have to get going," Sam said. "Can we leave the car here and pick it up later?" The monk said, "Does a dog have a Buddha nature?" Does a fish have a watertight asshole?" said Coyote.

  Christopher Moore

  Dog, Car, Coyotes

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• Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?

  Yann Martel

  Giving, Reptiles, Answers

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Dont give a child a fish but show him how to fish

  Mao Zedong

  Children, Giving, Shows

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• And the new day was a great big fish.

  Terry Pratchett

  New Day, Big Fish, Bigs

  "Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, Book 31)". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2003.

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• Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface breaking around our mouths as we meet the air.

  Mark Nepo

  Mean, Air, Mouths

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• I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Beautiful, Beach, Rain

  "Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 17, 1996.

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• He should not be here, " said the fish in the pot. " he should not be here when your mother is not.

  Dr. Seuss

  Mother, Pot, Should

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• It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at the very heart of the moving world: they are glued together, limb by limb, like the condemned man and the corpse in certain tortures; or even like those pairs of fish (sharks, I think, according to Michelet) which navigate in convoy, as though united by an eternal coitus.

  Roland Barthes

  Moving, Heart, Men

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• It was beautiful in a harsh I'm-going-to-gut-you-like-a-fish kind of way.

  Rick Riordan

  Beautiful, Way, Kind

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.137, Penguin UK

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• The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Zero, Math, Needs

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.43, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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• There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan," he told her softly. "And this particular fish loves you with all his crooked heart." -George to Alanna

  Tamora Pierce

  Romantic, Love You, Heart

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• All I'm telling you to do is to be smart about it. Know that if this man isn't looking for a serious relationship, you're not going to change his mind just because you two are going on dates and being intimate. You could be the most perfect woman on the Lord's green earth-you're capable of interesting conversation, you cook a mean breakfast, you hand out backrubs like sandwiches, you're independent (which means, to him, that you're not going to be in his pockets)-but if he's not ready for a serious relationship, he going to treat you like sports fish.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Sports, Smart

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• One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Water, Elements, Environment

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• Like the sweet moon keeps the sky Like the wind goin' whooshing by When those ol' sunbeams break the day I will keep you while you play Just as ol' river keeps the fishes And little stars keep silver wishes Just as the ocean keeps the blue I will stand here close to you. When all around is dark and deep When them ol' shadows slowly creep Even when you're fast asleep It's you I'll keep, it's you I'll keep No need to cry, no need to fear I will always be right here. I will always be right here.

  Kathi Appelt

  Sweet, Stars, Ocean

  Kathi Appelt (2012). “The Underneath”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Animal, Elephants, Wicked

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• Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Humble, Rocks

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• I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.

  George W. Bush

  Stupid, Silly, Dumb

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• I walked around as you do, investigating the endless star, and in my net, during the night, I woke up naked, the only thing caught, a fish trapped inside the wind.

  Pablo Neruda

  Stars, Night, Wind

  Pablo Neruda, “Enigmas”

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• I've never really understood the desire people have to quantify a baby. "He's X big and Y long," As if the baby is a fish you're not sure you're going to keep. Or some prize potato you're hoping will win a prize at the county fair.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Baby, Winning, Long

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• the chocolate raisins tasted somewhat fishy, but Lucy didn't care-chocolate was chocolate. She changed her mind however, when she realized that the raisins were tiny fish heads.

  Angie Sage

  Chocolate, Mind, Care

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• It's a quiet place, so people talk quietly," said Naoko. She made a neat pile of fish bones at the edge of her plate and dabbed at her mouth with a handkerchief. "There's no need to raise your voice here. You don't have to convince anybody of anything, and you don't have to attract anyone's attention.

  Haruki Murakami

  Voice, People, Needs

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• As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip away on the endless current and are lost for ever in oblivion's black ocean.

  Mervyn Peake

  Ocean, Imagination, Effort

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