Goldfish Quotes

• Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.

  

  Han Suyin
  • Flowers
  • Goldfish

• One time I went to Berlin and, for some reason, everywhere I was going they had fishbowls. Like a fishbowl by your bed or a fish tank in the bar. They seem obsessed with this IKEA version of nature, which a fishbowl kind of is. They had that going on. I just don't really like having a goldfish by the side of my bed. I feel kind of sad for it, rather than happy. But I thought that was really weird. Maybe they have human fishbowls.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Happy
  • Reason
  • Human

• I've watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I've seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis. And I had a golden retriever behave like one.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Live
  • Baby
  • Fly

• There is a natural hootchy-kootchy motion to a goldfish.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Natural
  • Motion
  • Goldfish

• One can get very fond of the people one meets in bars. The trouble is they then appear sort of different in the daylight and you realize that taking them with you is rather like taking a goldfish for a walk: not entirely correct, and surprising for the next people you run into.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • People
  • Different
  • Trouble

• Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.

  

  Edward V. Long
  • Society
  • Modern
  • Americans

• When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Teacher
  • Fool
  • April

• There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Wisdom
  • Translated
  • Life Is Life

• What's Your Purple Goldfish? busts a myth and reveals a simple truth about customer service. Stan uncovers the recipe for creating signature added value that increases customer satisfaction and drives positive word of mouth.

  

  Barry Moltz
  • Truth
  • Customer
  • Signature

• If I ask for a goldfish, he spits a glob of phlegm into a jar of water.

  

  Eduardo C. Corral
  • Water
  • Goldfish