Goldfish Quotes

• Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.

  Han Suyin

  Flower, Moving

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• I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Mind

  "Matisse". Book by Pierre Schneider, 1984.

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• A goldfish is reason enough for living, if someone needs a reason.

  Mason Cooley

  Life, Needs, Reason

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• A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

  Stephen Hawking

  Reality, Cities, Views

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• I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.

  Paul Rudd

  Thinking, Pet, Firsts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.

  Ani DiFranco

  Memories, Animal, Castles

  Song: Little Plastic Castle, Album: Little Plastic Castle

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• Most times a person grows up gradually, but I found myself in a hurry... Hoping to find an answer, I uncovered an article about the common goldfish. "Kept in a small bowl, the goldfish will remain small. With more space, the fish will double, triple, or quadruple in size." It occurred to me then that I was intended for larger things. After all, a giant man can't have an ordinary-sized life.

  John August

  Growing Up, Men, Space

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• There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.

  Truman Capote

  Morning, Dark, Swimming

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

  Walt Disney

  Natural, Fishes

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• We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Bowls

  Lecture in St George's Chapel, Windsor, England, May 5, 1978.

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• People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.

  Muriel Barbery

  Life, Stars, Children

  Muriel Barbery (2013). “The Elegance of the Hedgehog”, p.15, Gallic Books

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• I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.

  Paula Fox

  Self Esteem, Bowls

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• No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.

  Kin Hubbard

  Sick, Pet, Literature

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• I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.

  Princess Margaret

  Privacy, Bowls

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.

  Graham Taylor

  Soccer, Ideas, Life Is Like

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• Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish.

  Rick Riordan

  Strange Places, Giants, Sometimes

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• So I went in to a pet shop. I said, "Can I buy a goldfish?" The guy said, "Do you want an aquarium?" I said, "I don't care what star sign it is."

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Stars, Humor

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• There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.

  Beryl Markham

  Fun, Age, Quiet

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that -one is sure to get into some mess before evening.

  John Keats

  Book, Wine, Doors

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• I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

  Lefty Gomez

  Tired, Pet, Pitching

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• Bill has three goldfish. He buys two more. How many dogs live in London?

  Louis C. K.

  Dog, Two, London

  "Louis C.K. Continues To Knock Standardized Testing In ‘David Letterman’ Appearance" by Rebecca Klein, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2014.

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• In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more.

  Emily Watson

  Careers, Rejection, Forget

  "This much I know: Emily Watson". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2012.

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• If beer got any lighter you could raise goldfish in it.

  Jerry Adler

  Beer, Modern Life, Raises

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• Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.

  Craig Clevenger

  Angel, Men, Whales

  Craig Clevenger (2005). “Dermaphoria: A Novel”, Macadam Cage Pub

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• I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.

  Robert Plant

  Had A Great Time, Bowls, Great Times

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