Fishes Quotes - Page 38

• We are lost, lost,' said Gollum. 'No name, no business, no Precious, nothing. Only empty. Only hungry; yes, we are hungry. A few little fishes, nasty bony little fishes, for a poor creature, and they say death. So wise they are; so just, so very just

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wise, Names, Littles

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.674, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You fish, swim, eat, laze around, and everyone's so friendly. It's such simple stuff, but... If i could stop the world and restart life, put the clock back, i think I'd restart it like this. For everyone.

  Alex Garland

  Simple, Thinking, Swim

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.105, Penguin

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• We look high and low for God, but somehow He's not there. So we blame Him and tell ourselves that He must have forgotten us. Or else we decide that He left us long ago, if He was ever around." "How strange," the little fish said, "to miss what is everywhere." "Very strange," the old whale agreed. "Doesn't it remind you of fish who say they're thirsty?

  Michael Jackson

  Long Ago, Whales, Missing

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• So what if man's body evolved from the monkeys? Whether he came from monkeys or fish is unimportant. The important idea is that when the body became "human" enough, the first human soul slipped into it.

  Garth Stein

  Men, Ideas, Soul

  Garth Stein (2009). “The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Anything's possible in Human Nature," Chacko said in his Reading Aloud voice. Talking to the darkness now, suddenly insensitive to his little fountain-haired niece. "Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy." Of the four things that were Possible in Human Nature, Rahel thought that Infinnate Joy sounded the saddest. Perhaps because of the way Chacko said it. Infinnate Joy. With a church sound to it. Like a sad fish with fins all over.

  Arundhati Roy

  Niece, Reading, Voice

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.118, Penguin Books India

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• Suppose we pick a name for him, eh?" Caius Pompeius stepped over and eyed the child. "He looks a little like my proconsul, Marcus. We could call him Marcus." Josiah Worthington said, "He looks more like my head gardener, Stebbins. Not that I'm suggesting Stebbins as a name. The man drank like a fish." "He looks like my nephew Harry," said Mother Slaughter... "He looks like nobody but himself," said Mrs.Owens, firmly. "He looks like nobody." "Then Nobody it is," said Silas. "Nobody Owens.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mother, Children, Men

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• You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it.

  Tamora Pierce

  Swimming, Glasses, World

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.592, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could never find the right words, never, and where would you look for them? The heart is as silent as a fish, however much the tongue tries to give it a voice.

  Cornelia Funke

  Heart, Voice, Giving

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.304, Scholastic Inc.

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• if you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you may have caught for yourself

  Meg Cabot

  Men, Teach A Man To Fish, Giving

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• What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim!" ~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr

  Lloyd Alexander

  Daughter, Princess, House

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• Whether we're talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world? Obviously not. But that's not the question. Is it more important that sushi, bacon, or chicken nuggets? That's the question.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Pigs, Talking

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• We're all one thing, like cells in a body. 'Cept we can't see the body. The way fish can't see the ocean. And so we envy each other. Hurt each other. Hate each other. How silly is that? A heart cell hating a lung cell.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Hurt, Hate, Ocean

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• Kansas is not easily impressed. It has seen houses fly and cattle soar. When funnel clouds walk through the wheat, big hail falls behind. As the biggest stones melt, turtles and mice and fish and even men can be seen frozen inside. And Kansas is not surprised. Henry York had seen things in Kansas, things he didn't think belonged in this world. Things that didn't. Kansas hadn't flinched.

  N.D. Wilson

  Fall, Men, Thinking

  N. D. Wilson (2009). “Dandelion Fire: Book 2 of the 100 Cupboards”, p.1, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.

  Janette Rallison

  Long, Tails, Malls

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• A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Falling In Love, Bird, May

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.323, A&C Black

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• Angel?" I said. "Baby penguins eat a regurgitated mixture of partially digested fish, krill, and an oily substance form their fathers' stomachs. Are you willing to eat a bunch of raw fish and krill, and then barf it back up into a baby penguin's cute, cheeping mouth? Like, every hour?" Sometimes my crushing logic astounds even me.

  James Patterson

  Cute, Crush, Baby

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• 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!

  Rick Riordan

  Fighting, Monsters, Peanut Butter

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• This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in a newly found peace after he decided not to eat animals. Kafka recognized that fish as a member of his invisible family- not as his equal, of course, but as another being that was his concern.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Aquariums, Berlin

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2009.

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• You needn't tell a bird it's a bird. Or remind a fish of its purpose. It's only us who lose our way. We have names because we must. - from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Names, Bird, Purpose

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• Well met, Mistress Lirael. This ragamuffin, as your servant so aptly described him, is His Highness Prince Sameth, the Abhorsen-in-Waiting. Hence the bells. But on to more serious matters. Could you please rescue us? Prince Sameth's personal vessel is not quite what I'm used to, and he is eager to catch me a fish before my morning nap.

  Garth Nix

  Morning, Naps, Waiting

  Garth Nix (2014). “Lirael”, p.249, Hot Key Books

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• Not that I’ve ever feared a fight or backed down from one –(Wren) That’s the truth. I swear he’s half beta fish. He’d fight his own reflection to prove a point. (Maggie)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fighting, Reflection, Wrens

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• Fish gathered to look at us - a school of baracudas, some curious marines. SCRAM! I told them. They swam off, but I could tell they went reluctantly. I swear I understood their intencions. They were about to star rumors flighing around the sea about the son of poseidon and some girl at the bottom of Siren Bay.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Stars, School

  "The Sea of Monsters". Book by Rick Riordan, April 1, 2006.

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• Why he would agree to install an eight-by-eight-foot fish tank and then not fill it with a single dolphin made me want to burn his eyebrows off.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Humor, Eight

  Chelsea Handler (2010). “Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.

  Norman Maclean

  Father, Lakes, Sea

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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• Good tuna-fish sandwiches; he’s the tallest man I’ve ever seen! (Pam)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Tuna Fish, Sandwiches

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.538, Macmillan

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