Fishes Quotes
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The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.
William H. Gass
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This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo; Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace; All these you eat at Terre's tavern, In that one dish of Bouillabaisse.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.'
Thomas Sowell
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A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.
Selma Lagerlof
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Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.
Ernest Hemingway
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Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.
Henry Winkler
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You are very fortunate to be assigned to duty at Fortress Monroe on Chesapeake Bay; it is just the season for soft shelled crabs, and hog fish have just come in, and they are the most delicious panfish you ever ate.
Winfield Scott
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I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.
William Gilbert
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Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say - a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale.
William Carlos Williams
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At the bottom of the ocean, bacteria that are thermophilic and can survive at the steam vent heat that would otherwise produce, if fish were there, sous-vide cooked fish, nevertheless, have managed to make that a hospitable environment for them.
Harvey V. Fineberg
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Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.
Ernest Hemingway
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You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what they don't understand - and I like to tell this to writers - is that writing is like fishing. It's just like fishing. If you don't fish that often, you're not going to catch that many fish.
Sandra Cisneros
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But no matter how many fish in the sea, itd be so empty without me.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Bad Meets Evil'
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A very ancient and fish-like smell.
William Shakespeare
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Two fish in a tank, one says to the other - you drive I'll man the guns.
Tommy Cooper
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Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.
Ernest Hemingway
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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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
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Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.
William Shakespeare
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Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?
Ernest Hemingway
