Fishy Quotes

• There's always something fishy about the French.

  Noel Coward

  Noel Coward (197?). “A Noël Coward gala: his words and music, volume two”

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• But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind.

  Rupert Brooke

  Rivers, Space, Water

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.45, Delphi Classics

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• There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I cant be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Thinking, Serious, Impression

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• You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt.

  Dolly Parton

  Infidelity, Mouths, Bass

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• Something smells fishy and they say it's you, all I know is that you made it with the whole damn crew.

  LL Cool J

  Smell, Infidelity, Adultery

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• The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'

  Simon Sinek

  Machines, Metrics, Humans

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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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• Give a drag queen a fish and you feed her for a day; show her how to be fishy and you feed her for a lifetime.

  RuPaul

  Queens, Giving, Lifetime

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• Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such and such a feeling, language lets you down. It's really a machine for making falsehoods. When we really speak the truth, words are insufficient. Almost everything except things like "pass the gravy" is a lie of a sort. And that being the case, I shall shut up. Oh, and... pass the gravy.

  Iris Murdoch

  Lying, People, Feelings

  "Fictional character: Iris Murdoch". "Iris", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Ponder deep wisdom, dark or clear,
  Each secret fishy hope or fear.
  Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond;
  But is there anything Beyond?
  This life cannot be All, they swear,
  For how unpleasant, if it were!
  One may not doubt that, somehow, Good
  Shall come of Water and of Mud;
  And, sure, the reverent eye must see
  A Purpose in Liquidity.

  Rupert Brooke

  Eye, Dark, Water

  'Heaven' (1915)

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• Descartes says: I think, and I am every moment I am thinking, because I have this inner awareness of myself. And I always thought there was something fishy about that. I don't think there's any privileged self-knowledge. Most of our attention is to things outside us.

  Marjorie Grene

  Thinking, Self, Attention

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I missed a tuna-fish sandwich with mayo on toasted wheat bread more than anything. Six months after I went vegan, I snuck into a deli and took one home. And, of course, it wasn't nearly as good as I fantasized. It tasted, well, fishy.

  Kathy Freston

  Home, Tuna Fish, Six Months

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• Right after I graduated high school, I joined a sushi restaurant to learn how to make Japanese food. And then spent seven years. Then that time - that's enough. Then sushi restaurant - butchering fish and they make your body smell like fishy.

  Masaharu Morimoto

  School, Years, Smell

  "TalkAsia" with Kristie Lu Stout, www.cnn.com. February 11, 2012.

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• I don't need to feel 100% safe, but I have to feel like there's room for me to go a little bit insane if I'm going to have good ideas. Because a good idea is a new idea and if you start going around like, "I have this new idea!" most people are gonna be like, "I've never heard that before, that sounds fishy."

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  People, Insane

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Start walking. When you hit a spot where you’re gasping for breath, that should tell us our limitations. (Xypher) Oh, joy. I can’t wait to be the guppy. (Simone) Glub, glub, little fishy. Start walking. (Xypher)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Joy, Waiting, Littles

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• She is Melusina, the water goddess, and she is found in hidden springs and waterfalls in any forest in Christendom, even in those as far away as Greece. (...) A man may love her if he keeps her secret and lets her alone when she wants to bathe, and she may love him in return until he breaks his word, as men always do, and she sweeps him into the depths with her fishy tail, and turns his faithless blood to water. The tragedy of Melusina, whatever language tells it, whatever tune it sings, is that a man will always promise more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.

  Philippa Gregory

  Spring, Men, Blood

  "The White Queen". Book by Philippa Gregory, abcnews.go.com. 2009.

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• Let us suppose that an ichthyologist is exploring the life of the ocean. He casts a net into the water and brings up a fishy assortment. Surveying his catch, he proceeds in the usual manner of a scientist to systematise what it reveals. He arrives at two generalisations: No sea-creature is less than two inches long. (2) All sea-creatures have gills. These are both true of his catch, and he assumes tentatively that they will remain true however often he repeats it.

  Arthur Eddington

  Ocean, Sea, Two

  "The Philosophy of Physical Science". Book by Arthur Eddington, 1938.

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• A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.

  A. A. Gill

  Promise, Lobster, Compliment

  A.A. Gill (2010). “Table Talk: Sweet And Sour, Salt and Bitter”, p.45, Hachette UK

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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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• Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits, and spermatozoa and ovaries into fishy little plants growing babyward if we take no care to stop them.

  Alasdair Gray

  Dog, Plants Growing, Eggs

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• Every time I walk by a spy shop, I think that I need to put some surveillance on somebody. Rick's been acting fishy! I need to buy a safe that looks like a Spray 'N Wash can. "Hey, Mitch, can I use the Spray 'N Wash?" "Yeah, if you want to spray your shirt with documents!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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