Fish Quotes

"I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that"

"Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

"I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water"

Thomas Shadwell, Dramatist

"What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?"

Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Dramatist

"It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings"

Kurt Cobain, Musician

"I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride"

John Lennon, Musician

"I've slowly gone back, later on in life, to fish and then chicken and then, last year, red meat"

Sarah Chalke, Actress

"Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment"

Patrick Stewart, Actor

"I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds"

Merlin Olsen, Athlete

"My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too"

Magic Johnson, Athlete

"It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work"

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

"Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning"

Nellie Bly, Journalist

"I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water"

John Sayles, Director

"When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers"

Imelda Marcos, Celebrity

"Yeah, some kids called me fish lips because I had these really full lips. Now I'm sure all those same girls are getting collagen injections, so I'm having the last laugh"

Denise Richards, Actress

"Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"I turn over a lot of money for a lot of people and I'm the smallest fish in it"

Michael Hutchence, Musician

"Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues"

Muddy Waters, Musician

"Tim Burton is underrated. I loved Big Fish, loved that movie, think it's the best movie of the year, hands down. Really impressed with that"

David Zucker, Director

"What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren't changed"

Mike Rounds, Politician

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime"

Maimonides, Philosopher

"My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it"

Al Capp, Cartoonist

"I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA"

Dennis Cardoza, Politician

"I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond"

Anthony Michael Hall, Actor

"Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it"

Alexander Herzen, Journalist

"I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues"

Karl Lagerfeld, Designer

"The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

"Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting"

Dave Barry, Author

"Then, as the day progresses, depending on how the product is coming in - for instance, the fish man will fax us and say black bass is great - throughout the day, we'll also make judgment calls and adapt to what's available"

Thomas Keller, Celebrity

"The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins"

Dave Barry, Author

"I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don't have any pets now"

Tom Felton, Actor

"I like to fish. Fishing is always a way of relaxing"

Tom Felton, Actor

"The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish, you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words"

Zhuang Zi, Philosopher

"A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself"

George Crabbe, Poet

"We are also working on the restoration of salmon runs, and we are doing a new process of mass marking with these fish so we can tell the wild fish from the hatchery fish"

Norm Dicks, Politician

"This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time"

Aneurin Bevan, Politician

"I call it an old-fashioned seafood house for the new millennium. We are trying to update what we know as old fish houses and places like that, which are great, but I want to give it a new, fresh look with updated versions of the classics we all love"

Todd English, Celebrity

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