Jellyfish Quotes

• Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beautiful, Life Is, Magnificent

  "Fictional character: Calvero". "Limelight", www.imdb.com. October 16, 1952.

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• When you move like a jellyfish, rhythm is nothing. You go with the flow. You don't stop.

  Jack Johnson

  Moving, Flow, Rhythm

  Song: Bubble Toes, Album: Brushfire Fairytales

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• We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

  May Sarton

  Honesty, Being Honest, Pitiful

  May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.136, Open Road Media

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• I think lifes a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tides just gently helping you along.

  Andrew Buchan

  Thinking, Littles, Tides

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• Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

  Gene Tierney

  Order, Trying, Picks

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish... The trouble is you won't fight. You've given in, continually dwelling on sickness and death. But there's something just as inevitable as death, and that's life. Life, life, life. Think of all the power that's in the universe, moving the earth, growing the trees. That's the same power within you if you only have courage and the will to use it.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beautiful, Fighting, Thinking

  "Fictional character: Calvero". "Limelight", www.imdb.com. October 16, 1952.

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• What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but that's not true at all. The real world is a much darker and deeper place than this, and much of it is occupied by jellyfish and things.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Thinking, World

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from May 10, 2015

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• I'd like to be a jellyfish, 'cause jellyfish don't pay rent.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Animal, Pay, Causes

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• How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.

  Andrew Sean Greer

  Dark, Sea, Knowing

  Andrew Sean Greer (2008). “The Story of a Marriage: A Novel”, p.65, Macmillan

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• When you move like a jellyfish rhyth don't mean nothing. You go with the flow, you don't stop. Move like a jellyfish, rhythm means nothing.You go with the flow you don't stop.

  Jack Johnson

  Moving, Mean, Flow

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• I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.

  Peter Benchley

  Hurt, Sea, Marine Life

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• A person without conviction is a weak, jellyfish type of individual who mindlessly follows the crowd.

  Rick Warren

  Crowds, Individual, Weak

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• It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.

  Karl Pilkington

  Would Be, Spiteful, Trifles

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

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• Today I saw cancer, cigarettes, and shortness of breath. This is why I walk to the ocean. Swim with sharks and jellyfish. I may never get this chance again. This is why if you want to kiss, you should kiss. If you want to cry, you should cry. And if you want to live, you should live. You don't have to love me. You already did.

  Ryan Ross

  Cancer, Ocean, Kissing

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• A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Design, Bells, Littles

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• The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying on sand.

  Margaret Atwood

  Water, Body, Sand

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making nuisances of themselves.

  Lyndon LaRouche

  Nuisance, Sitting, Nests

  "Ex-Aide: LaRouche Extravagant". Chicago Tribune, December 2, 1988.

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• Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Simple, Yeast, Reason

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• [Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful.

  Karl Pilkington

  Funny, Ocean, Giving

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• There is a period in one's life - perhaps not longer than six months - when one lives in two worlds at once ... It is the time when one has freshly learned to read. The Word, till then a denominating aspect of the Thing, has suddenly become detached from it and is perceived as a glittering entity, transparent and unseizable as a jellyfish, yet able to create an independent world that is both more recondite and more instantaneously convincing than the world one knew before.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Reading, Independent, Two

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• Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? ...Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man's appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish.

  Daniel Quinn

  Men, Birth, Appearance

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.58, Bantam

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• Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Swans

  "Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra". Comedy, Music, May 9, 2009.

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• Nature has provided two great gifts: life and then the diversity of living things, jellyfish and humans, worms and crocodiles. I don't undervalue the investigation of commonalities but can't avoid the conclusion that diversity has been relatively neglected, especially as concerns the brain.

  Theodore Holmes Bullock

  Nature, Science, Two

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• Without fake tan I have the skin tones of a dead jellyfish.

  Jenny Eclair

  Skin Tone, Fake, Skins

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• What better way to learn about life in the ocean--and how we are changing it--than through stories of blind zombie worms, immortal jellyfish, and unicorns of the sea? The Extreme Life of the Sea is an insightful book that inspires awe and wonder about our ocean, and brilliantly shows us the immense possibilities of life on Earth.

  Enric Sala

  Ocean, Book, Sea

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