Fishes Quotations

The rumors of Frank Sinatra's violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.

I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish.

The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

If I don't fish in the morning, I fish in the evening.

I prefer being a small fish in a big pond.

Even in the lives of fishes, sensation is seldom a matter of one thing or another. Senses overlap. The lines between them often tend to be blurred, and the best that we can manage, by way of description from the outside, is to say that the senses of fishes appear to dominate one at a time.

A great war shall burst forth from fishes of steel. Machines of flying fire, lobsters, grasshoppers, mosquitoes. The mass attacks shall be repulsed in the woods, when no child in Germany shall obey any longer.

My friend Ed Begley goes fishing. It's a little smelly to me, I don't like it so much. I like to eat fish, but I don't like to catch them.

I can really fish - I've been fishing since I was a kid.

Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

You can't go wrong with fish and chips.

I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.

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

I like to fish. Fishing is always a way of relaxing.

The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery.

I can fish from a stick and a string.

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

I turn over a lot of money for a lot of people and I'm the smallest fish in it

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.

I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.

I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don't see in the daytime.

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

I still haven't quite got used to eating live fish.

Looking for yourself is like a thirsty fish looking for water.

The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.

If truth is the lure, humans are fishes.

The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish.

If you’re too busy to duck hunt or catch fish, then you’re too busy.

The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.

Lying to the Left is like water to fish

You want to save more fish? Eat more broccoli.

I love all the fishes in the sea except selfish. But, mother is the only person in this world who gives us a selfish love that is deserved by every creature of this world. Feel the warmth of it, you'll say that it is only for yourself.

He fishes well who uses a golden hook.

I talked to pros like Shaw Grigsby and Roland Martin after John won that year, and they all agreed that it probably was the first time a guy who fished in his first pro tournament ever won over $100,000 at it. I wasn't surprised John won at Mead, though, because he always fishes well there. We always say it's tougher to fish in San Diego tournaments because you end up fishing the clock, people and in such a small area of fish that we're lucky to get our spots. At Mead, unless someone is following you, you get big parts of the lake to yourself.

It is no doubt technically possible to study metabolism and respiration of fishes during swimming at a constant rate, and of certain insects and birds during flight, and to obtain information similar to that obtained on man during work on a bicycle ergometer or a treadmill.

Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.

Knowledge does not keep any better than fish.

Knowledge keeps no better than fish.

I like fishing, I like painting; I like painting fish.

I am only happy when I am swimming like a fish.

To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.

We don't know yet if it was the raw fish. We may never know the cause.

Fish recognize a bad leader.

There can be little doubt that fishes swimming rapidly do not make respiratory movements at all, but obtain the necessary ventilation of the gills simply by opening the mouth.

The woods were made for the hunter of dreams, the brooks for the fishes of song.

This is such a big step for fishes to do this.

For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; / So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

The beluga sturgeon, one of the most valuable and threatened fishes in the world, greatly deserves this chance for survival, but it will be a long road to recovery.

Of all the jobs I've had, sliming fish was pretty good preparation for life in Washington.

Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.

The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.

The fish adores the bait.

I know that the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully.

Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries.

You know why fish are so thin? They eat fish.

fish and visitors stink in 3 days.

The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.

Leviathan is not the biggest fish; — I have heard of Krakens.

[T]is not all fishing to fish.

Angling is an Art... an art worth your learning.

I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.

It's no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.

I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]

Is this chicken or is this fish?

If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

You know what they say: A woman needs a man about as much as a fish needs a bicycle.

I'm a fish swimming by...catch me if you want me.

A fish has no concept of water.

It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.

The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems.

Your friendship with her-it sleeps with the fishes.

Fish did not discover water.

I'm not sure who discovered water, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a fish.

We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.

One man's fish is another man's poisson.

I don't care if I'm a fish, I still want a bicycle.

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

We live in media, as fish live in water.

Never leave fish to find fish.

The great fish moved silently through the night water.

To fish in troubled waters.

How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.

If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.

The guy fishes with dynamite. That should encapsulate the guy.

The fish is the star of the plate.

Marine protected areas, and particularly no-take zones, are very effective in allowing regeneration of fish stocks.

All is fish that comth to net.

The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.

She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.

The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

I deep sea fish a lot.

This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.

All fish are not caught with flies

If dolphins are so intelligent, how come they ain't got Walkmans?

I like to fish when it's not too hot.