Fish Quotes

• [Vincent Price] taught me how to cook fish in my dishwasher.

  

  Cassandra Peterson
  • Taught
  • Cook
  • Vincent Price

• Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he'll sit in a boat drinking beer every weekend.

  

  Alex Blackwell
  • Man
  • Lesson
  • Fish

• There's as many fish in the sea as ever came out of it. Fright though you are, you won't have any trouble in hooking another boy-friend.

  

  Zazie
  • Sea
  • Fish

• I won't get killed,' Rose protested. Is that a promise?' Fish asked dryly, stirring his tea. 'If you break your word, I'll never believe you again.' Rose shook her head at him. 'How can you even taste your tea if you put that much sugar in it?' Don't change the subject. I don't want to be responsible for depriving the world of Rose Brier. Under no circumstances are you allowed to help us do anything more dangerous than...change the oil in my car.

  

  Regina Doman
  • Believe
  • Car
  • Circumstances

• She couldn’t picture anyone falling madly in love with such a person as Fish. What a name, Fish...Fish: think cold, slippery, detached. Benedict: think dry scholarly monk from the Dark Ages. Denniston: think English preparatory school, stolid country squire. Nothing about his name sounded the least bit romantic.

  

  Regina Doman
  • Country
  • Picture
  • Person

• It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Fish
  • Weed
  • Instead

• Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.

  

  George Eliot
  • Fish
  • Fry

• Fish and chip night was a Kumar family tradition that dated back to when Jaget was courting his wife and they used to meet in the last white English-owned fish and chip shop in Wembley on the basis that none of their relatives would go in there.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Fish
  • Relatives
  • Family Tradition

• When frying small fish, disturb them little.

  

  Confucius
  • Fish
  • Disturb
  • Frying

• Caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a prophet's epiphanies.

  

  Barbara Hurd
  • Caves
  • Rebirth
  • Epiphanies

• Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Small
  • Big

• Theres so many fish in the sea That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Smoke
  • Mercury
  • Rise Up

• I have traveled a long way with you to See the great waters, and that now that monstrous fish was also to be Seen, I thought it very hard that I Could not be permitted to See either.

  

  Sacagawea
  • Seen
  • Traveled
  • Monstrous

• Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.

  

  Bill Barich
  • Fish
  • Great Art
  • Reproductions

• The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.

  

  Arnold Gingrich
  • Partner
  • Fish
  • Quarry

• I have other fish to fry.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Fish
  • Fry

• No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • King
  • Born
  • Swim

• The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of fish we catch.

  

  Elliot W. Eisner
  • Determine
  • Catch
  • Nets

• It`s corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head.

  

  Joseph Wambaugh
  • Corruption
  • Fish
  • Rots

• Every song is completely different. Sometimes they come like a lump of clay and it's your job to chip away and find out what's in the center. Sometimes it comes like swimming fish, and you have to follow it and see where it leads. Sometimes it comes totally fragmented.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Job
  • Song
  • Fragmented

• Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Teacher
  • Soldier
  • Fish

• The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Fish
  • Commits

• Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod, one night sailed off in a wooden shoe; Sailed off on a river of crystal light into a sea of dew. "Where are you going and what do you wish?" the old moon asked the three. "We've come to fish for the herring fish that live in this beautiful sea. Nets of silver and gold have we," said Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod.

  

  Eugene Field
  • Light
  • Sea
  • Sailed

• I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on me - how could I discriminate between a cow and a fish?

  

  Carre Otis
  • Cow
  • Discriminate
  • Dawned on

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