Fishing Quotes - Page 20

• I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Self, Monsters, Depth

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• One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing

  Norman Maclean

  World, Fly Fishing, Great Things

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.18, University of Chicago Press

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• Fish sticks and beef stew that millions of children love to hate.

  Marian Burros

  Children, Hate, Beef

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• Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.

  David Lynch

  Ideas, Waiting, Desire

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• Probably fishing is my first passion.

  Luke Bryan

  Passion, Firsts

  "Luke Bryan Reveals His Memorable Spring Breaks, Best Buds and a Celebrity Apprentice Freakout". Interview with Michael Bialas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2012.

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• I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it.

  Perry Como

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• We'd like to make it [bucky fiber] in a continuous fiber, roll it on a drum, and go fishing with it.

  Richard Smalley

  Fiber, Chemistry

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• So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air.

  Rex Hunt

  Lakes, Air, Sea

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What is the politically correct term for 'retarded'?""I think the words you're fishing for are 'mentally disabled.' And no. I'm not mentally disabled.

  Rachel Gibson

  Thinking, Retarded, Term

  Rachel Gibson (2010). “Nothing But Trouble”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• My dad is very successful in his business. He's always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to get away. He always made time for hunting and fishing. He always encouraged me to do it.

  Luke Bryan

  Dad, Successful, Hunting

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• I grew up in a small, strictly Catholic fishing village - the people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Attitude, People, Catholic

  "Suffer little children? Give me a break" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2008.

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• Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale... from hell's heart I stab at thee.

  Herman Melville

  Heart, Whales, Sea

  Moby Dick ch. 135 (1851)

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• Peitaho Heavy rains fall on Yuyen, the northland kingdom of swallows. White pages of rain envelop the sky, and fishing boats off the Island of the Emperor Chin disappear on the ocean. Which way have they gone? More than a thousand years ago the mighty emperor Tsao Tsao cracked his whip and drove his army against the Tartars. He left us a poem: "Let us move east to the Stone Mountains." Today we still shiver in the autumn gale, in desolate winds, yet another man is in the world.

  Mao Zedong

  Rain, Ocean, Moving

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• I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Practice, Wildlife

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• We've got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farming, loves gays and we hate him!

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Hate, Gay, Cowboy

  "Alec Baldwin Calls Hank Williams Jr. a 'Senile, Racist Coot'" by Seth Abramovitch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 4, 2012.

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• I've got 21 years of experience now fishing professionally, and over that time I've learned a lot about how the bass react. A lot of people think there's a lot of luck in fishing, and there really isn't.

  Kevin VanDam

  Thinking, Years, People

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• Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Born, Angling

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 1

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• A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Dream, Dancing, Lines

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• Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.

  Sylvia Earle

  Lakes, Blue, Oysters

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• The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.

  Sylvia Earle

  Long, Century, Ends

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• Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.

  Brandi Carlile

  Coffee, Needs, Whiskey

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• There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon

  Jack Nicklaus

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• People never hurt others in moments of personal strength and bravery, when they are feeling good about themselves, when they are strong and confident. If we spent all of our waking moments in that place, then fighting for social justice would be redundant; we would simply have social justice and be done with it, and we could all go swimming, or fishing, or bowling, or dancing, or whatever people do. But it is because we spend so much of our time in that other place, that place of diminished capacity, of flagging energy, or wavering and somewhat flaccid commitment, that we have to be careful.

  Tim Wise

  Strong, Hurt, Commitment

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• The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Marine, Lakes, Sea

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• In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.

  Norman Maclean

  Lines, Our Family, Clear

  "A River Runs Through It" (1976)

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