Eels Quotations

It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped.

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.

The apartments are made for eels.

I have the backbone of an eel.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.

Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.

Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.

They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.

I eat cold eels and think distant thoughts.

Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!" "No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?" "Not such a waste of time as talking to you!

Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.

I have a name,” I grumped, my stomach pinching me harder. “Yes, but it has no pizzazz. Ra-a-a-a-chel. Rach-e-e-e-eel,” he said, trying it out in different ways. “No one will tremble in terror at that. Oh my God!” he said in a high falsetto. “It’s Rachel! Run! Hide!

Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn't mean I'm an eel-and-pie yob.

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.

My hovercraft is full of eels.

I gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan.

Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.

Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.

Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.

If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

The funniest thing about comedy is that you never know why people laugh. I know what makes them laugh but trying to get your hands on the why of it is like trying to pick an eel out of a tub of water.