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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A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.
Selma Lagerlof
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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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Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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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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Two fish in a tank, one says to the other - you drive I'll man the guns.
Tommy Cooper
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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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Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.
Ernest Hemingway
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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
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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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A very ancient and fish-like smell.
William Shakespeare
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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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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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," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.
Ernest Hemingway
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A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops.
Teresa Medeiros
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I've slowly gone back, later on in life, to fish and then chicken and then, last year, red meat.
Sarah Chalke
