Dave Barry Quotes

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

Dave Barry

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• Lake Pend Oreille is definitely my favorite place to be while in Sandpoint. I love to get out on a boat to enjoy water sports, camping, fishing, or just to relax and catch a sunset.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Love
  • Enjoy
  • Place

• I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven't killed a fish that I've caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Know
  • Fishing
  • Fish

• If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Vote
  • Fishing
  • Fish

• There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Always
  • Fishing
  • Horizon

• Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Up
  • Food
  • Water

• You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • You
  • Dog
  • Kindness

• I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Different
  • Peace
  • Sea

• Until I was twelve years old, I led this wandering life, fishing, swimming, and making moccasins.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Life
  • Swimming
  • Fishing

• The oceans have been a part of my life for as long as I remember. As a child, I spent hours playing in the surf off Cape Cod. In college, I fished along the rocky coast of Nova Scotia with my school's fishing team.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Life
  • Long
  • School

• Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • New
  • Now
  • Fishing

• I love 'Fishing With John' so much.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Love
  • Fishing
  • Much

• Freediving can be extremely dangerous. It's got an incredibly high fatality rate outside of competition. But there's never been a fatality in competition. In terms of spear fishing and people who train by themselves, it's the second most dangerous sport in the world after base jumping. If you black out by yourself, you drown.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • People
  • World
  • High

• I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.

  

  Larry Norman
  • Men
  • Deep
  • Fishing

• ‘Oh Brancepeth,’ said the girl, her voice trembling, ‘why haven’t you any money? If only you had the merest pittance - enough for a flat in Mayfair and a little weekend place in the country somewhere and a couple of good cars and a villa in the South of France and a bit of trout fishing on some decent river, I would risk all for love.’

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Good
  • Country
  • Money

• I don't believe in rock bottom. Rock bottom is like a fishing term.

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • Believe
  • Rock
  • Fishing

• Patrick imagined Kay’s father sunk in the back of the car, his eyes glazed over with exhaustion and his lungs, like torn fishing nets, trawling vainly for air.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Father
  • Eyes
  • Car

• I'd rather go ice fishing, which is the dumbest thing a man can do. You're sitting essentially in an out house and it's 30 below. You've cut a hole in the ice, and you're fishing for fish that you shouldn't eat, ‘cause any fish that is down there is fucking stupid.

  

  Lewis Black
  • House
  • Stupid
  • Fishing

• Outside of my family and my work, I have two passions, both instilled in me by my father: golf and fishing.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Work
  • Family
  • Father

• The two biggest things that translate from the pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience and perseverance. When you're on the mound, you have to take the game one pitch at a time, regardless of the score, and that approach helps when I'm in the woods or on the water as well.

  

  Jon Lester
  • Time
  • Game
  • Water

• The issue of women in the workplace is not a women's issue: it's an economic problem.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Women
  • Workplace

• Suppose a State said that, Because we think that the focus of marriage really should be on procreation, we are not going to give marriage licenses anymore to any couple where both people are over the age of 55. Would that be constitutional?

  

  Elena Kagan
  • People
  • Age
  • Focus

• True happiness is not made in getting something. True happiness is becoming something. This can be done by being committed to lofty goals. We cannot become something without commitment.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Done
  • True
  • Happiness

• All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I believe that Marquez must have experienced everything in his novels.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • I Believe
  • Critics
  • Novels

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

  

  Dave Barry
  • Fishing