Jellyfish Quotes - Page 2

• If we don't manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew.

  Daniel Pauly

  Ocean, Sea, Stew

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• In the creative process, my ego has always been a huge tyrant ... a dictator and kind of rude and very misleading, because sometimes when I'm doing something, I say, "This is great! This is fantastic! Very genius!" And 20 minutes later, I feel like a dead jellyfish. "You are a stupid a**hole. This is a piece of sh*t. Nobody will care about it."

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Stupid, Tyrants, Creative

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• I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage.

  Molly Harper

  Home, Vacation, Iron

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• A lot of athletes have this sort of invincibility: [The jellyfish] should worry about me. I don't worry about them. I'll just swim right through them.

  Diana Nyad

  Motivation, Ocean, Inspiration

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• Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to the existence of a jellyfish, but I was also horrible to behold. There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from fate, we decide to treat it all as a joke.

  Jean-Dominique Bauby

  Laughter, Fate, Blow

  Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.25, Knopf Group E-Books

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• I thought beforehand, if [Marie] Henein is going to be a shark, I'm going to be a jellyfish, because you can't catch a jellyfish. Not that I didn't want to be caught, I just wanted to present solid.

  Lucy DeCoutere

  Sharks, Want, Caught

  Source: int-www.macleans.ca

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• Who's going to rob us? A crackhead crab? A jellyfish junkie?

  Kathy Reichs

  Crabs, Crackheads, Junkie

  Kathy Reichs (2010). “Virals”, p.18, Penguin

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• The U.S. was the immigration country of choice even for alien jellyfish things that turned humans into scary monsters. It made you proud, really.

  Gini Koch

  Country, Scary, Choices

  Gini Koch (2011). “Alien in the Family”, p.17, Penguin

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• We need to encourage an attitude of constant questioning, which is a genuine part of our potential as students. If students were required to drop their questions, that would create armies of zombies- rows of jellyfish...The questioning mind is absolutely necessary.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Attitude, Knowledge, Army

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• The FA would remove him tomorrow if they had a spine, but clearly, in former lives, were cruel to jellyfish which is why they have returned as them now.

  Martin Samuel

  Soccer, Football, Tomorrow

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• South Africa is not a jellyfish and is in many respects a swordfish.

  P. W. Botha

  South, South Africa

  Sunday Times, November 5, 2006.

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• I'd really like to go with you, Agachak. Truly I would...but I just can't." "I don't understand. Why not?" "I'm not allowed to leave home. My mother'd punish me something awful if I did..." "But you're the king." "That doesn't change a thing. I still do what mother says. She tells everybody that I'm the best boy ever when it comes to that." Agachak resisted a powerful urge to change this half-wit into a toad or perhaps a jellyfish.

  David Eddings

  Mother, Kings, Powerful

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• There is a very common, though also very silly, picture of Kant according to which as empirical beings we are not free at all, and we are free only as noumenal jellyfish floating about in an intelligible sea above the heavens, outside any context in which our supposedly "free" choices could have any conceivable human meaning or significance. Part of the problem here is that Kant faces up honestly to the fact that how freedom is possible is a deep philosophical problem to which there is no solution we can rationally comprehend.

  Allen W. Wood

  Silly, Philosophical, Sea

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• When you're younger and dumber, as a guy, you do things because you think you have to, because that's how things are done. You wait the standard three days to call, you don't approach the beautiful girl at the bar because you automatically assume she's out of your league, you'd rather jump in a swimming pool filled with jellyfish than tell a woman that you have feelings for her, etc.

  Jason Mulgrew

  Beautiful, Girl, Swimming

  Source: www.glamour.com

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