Fishes Quotes

• 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
  • Book
  • Guts
  • Feds

• 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
  • Teaching
  • Vote
  • Politician

• 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
  • Play
  • Taught
  • Bass

• A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.

  

  Selma Lagerlof
  • Men
  • May
  • Injustice

• 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
  • Green
  • Cooking
  • Dishes

• 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
  • Army
  • Duty
  • Delicious

• Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Want
  • Kind
  • Fishes

• Two fish in a tank, one says to the other - you drive I'll man the guns.

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Gun
  • Fishes
  • Tanks

• I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.

  

  William Gilbert
  • Sick
  • Boat
  • Fishing

• 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
  • Environment
  • Ocean
  • Produce

• Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Battle
  • Boat
  • Anglers

• One morning I was reading the story of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand. The disciples could find only five loaves of bread and two fishes. 'Let me have them,' said Jesus. He asked for all. He took them, said the blessing, and broke them before He gave them out. I remembered what a chapel speaker...had said: 'If my life is broken when given to Jesus, it is because pieces will feed a multitude, while a loaf will satisfy only a little lad.'

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Reading
  • Jesus
  • Remembered

• A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops.

  

  Teresa Medeiros
  • Asks
  • Imaginary
  • Crops

• A very ancient and fish-like smell.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Ancient
  • Memorable
  • Smell

• 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
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes

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

  

  Sarah Chalke
  • Meat
  • Fishes
  • Chickens

• my thoughts are like quick little fish that swim out of my grasp.

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • Littles
  • Swim
  • Fishes

• 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
  • Writing
  • Proud
  • Sometimes

• Rage is to writers what water is to fish.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Water
  • Anger
  • Rage

• I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.

  

  Casey Affleck
  • Remember
  • Boat
  • Seeing

• Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Chance
  • Said

• Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Said
  • Fishes

• Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Said
  • Dies

• 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
  • Men
  • Law
  • Helping

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