Goldfish Quotes - Page 3

• As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.

  Hans Rosling

  Microsoft Word, Use, Thesaurus

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• One of the women at the clinic had remarked dryly that Harrow's personal magnetism not only affected men, women and children but also extended to armoires, assorted chairs and the nearby goldfish in a bowl.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Children, Men, Chairs

  Lisa Kleypas (2008). “Seduce Me at Sunrise”, p.78, Macmillan

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• She's not dead. You didn't kill her, nor did the hunger birds, although they did their best to get to you through her. She's been given her ocean. One day, in its own time, the ocean will give her back.I thought of corpses and of skeletons with pearls for eyes. I thought of mermaids with tails that flicked when they moved, like my goldfishes' tails had flicked before my goldfish had stopped moving, to lie, belly up, like Lettie, on the top of the water. I said, 'Will she be the same?

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Ocean, Moving

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• A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the mud, uncles' and cousins' books, tablets and capsules and powders...and then one day you find yourself leaning here, writing on that round glass table salvaged from the Park View Pharmacy--writing this, an impossibility, a summary of who you came to be where you are now, and where, God knows, is that?

  Cynthia Ozick

  Cousin, Uncles, Book

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• You never have a normal family relationship in the White House; it's an impossible thing to have. You live in a goldfish bubble, and you snatch what you can for a personal life, but you never have a normal, natural existence.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  White, Impossible Things, House

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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• How complicated can ice cream flavors be? How much can you put in there? I mean, when the flavor's something like banana ice cream with caramel, fudge chunks, cheddar goldfish and pennies - you've got to draw a line there.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Humor, Mean

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• It made him feel indispensable and needed - even if the fact that Jocelyn didn't appear to care wheather he slept in her daughter's bed or not did underscore that Clary's mother apparently regarded him as about sexually threatening as a goldfish.

  Cassandra Clare

  Daughter, Mother, Bed

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup-they all die. So do we.

  Robert Fulghum

  Death, White, Styrofoam

  Gail Feinstein Forman, Robert Fulghum (1994). “It All Started in Kindergarten: Unforgettable Stories for Listening and Conversation”, Prentice Hall

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• And of course I don't go anywhere without my pet goldfish, Anthrax. I always tell security I'm carrying Anthrax. Yeah, sure I get a lot of guff about it, but it's a family name; I'm not changing it.

  Stephen Colbert

  Names, Pet, Yeah

  TV Series "The Colbert Report", 2005–2015.

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• Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.

  Edward V. Long

  Naked, Privacy, Modern

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• When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one.

  Princess Margaret

  Growing Up, Privacy, My Sister

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

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• Starlets were always turning up dead in people's pools. They fished them out like goldfish. Nobody seemed to find it unusual that so many young, beautiful women wanted to die.

  Jonathan Rosen

  Beautiful, People, Pool

  Jonathan Rosen (2010). “Eve's Apple: A Novel”, p.72, Macmillan

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• We have a puppy named Lucy... two cats... goldfish... and Louis, our lop earred rabbit.

  Julia Barr

  Dog, Cat, Two

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• I grew up around animals [seven horses, dogs and now a pet goldfish named Leila] and I'm rebelling against them not having a natural existence.

  Isabel Lucas

  Dog, Horse, Animal

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• Every parent who has ever said a few words over a goldfish in a toilet bowl
  or felt the numbness of an unexpected diagnosis in a pediatrician's office will appreciate the heartfelt wisdom in It's Okay to Cry. Norm Wright tenderly and skillfully equips parents to help children cultivate a healthy response to life's many pains and sorrows.

  Lori Borgman

  Children, Pain, Heart

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• My wife and I have long discussions about [George] Carlin, and we refuse to accept that he died an atheist. It's just, confounding. When I talked to Kelly [George Carlin's daughter] about it, she said that George Carlin once took her at about 12 years old and said, "I've figured it out." And he says it in one of his specials sort of - he goes, "We're all energy and we're all connected. That goldfish you have, you, me, that boot laying in the street, we're all pieces of light to a giant electron.

  Jay Mohr

  Daughter, Atheist, Light

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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