151 Quotes on Fish

• Tim Burton is underrated. I loved Big Fish, loved that movie, think it's the best movie of the year, hands down. Really impressed with that.

  Author: David Zucker

• I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed.

  Author: Martin Yan

• Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

  Author: Steven Wright

• Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish.

  Author: Grant Wood

• I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

  Author: Reese Witherspoon

• 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.

  Author: Henry Winkler

• Their diet is basically boiled vegetables, fish and rice. No fat, no sugar. You notice when you live there that there are no fat people.

  Author: Arsene Wenger

• Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

  Author: Scott Weiland

• We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.

  Author: Gene Ween

• Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues.

  Author: Muddy Waters

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

  Author: Richard Wagner

• Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

  Author: Lao Tzu

• Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

  Author: Lao Tzu

• I'm going to gut you like a fish.

  Author: Mike Tyson

• When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

  Author: Mark Twain

• Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

  Author: Mark Twain

• The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

  Author: Mao Tung

• You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.

  Author: Benicio Toro

• I have read many studies out of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and they demonstrated that Vitamin E, Co-Q-10, and Fish Oil could protect the immune system of athletes and prevent disease.

  Author: Bill Toomey

• Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset.

  Author: Maurice Strong

• We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.

  Author: Michael Stipe

• Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.

  Author: Patrick Stewart

• A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

  Author: Gloria Steinem

• It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

  Author: John Steinbeck

• The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

  Author: Sam Snead

• I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.

  Author: Stevie Smith

• Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken of the Sea.'

  Author: Jessica Simpson

• I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.

  Author: Thomas Shadwell

• I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.

  Author: John Sayles

• No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

  Author: John Ruskin

• I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.

  Author: Mark Ruffalo

• You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.

  Author: Darrell Royal

• Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren't changed.

  Author: Mike Rounds

• He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

  Author: Jose Rizal

• Yeah, some kids called me fish lips because I had these really full lips. Now I'm sure all those same girls are getting collagen injections, so I'm having the last laugh.

  Author: Denise Richards

• If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.

  Author: Dan Quayle

• Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long.

  Author: Vince Poscente

• Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

  Author: Ovid

• Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

  Author: Ovid

• Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.

  Author: Ovid

• I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds.

  Author: Merlin Olsen

• Fish recognize a bad leader.

  Author: Conan O'Brien

• Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

  Author: Nicholas Negroponte

• Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

  Author: Malcolm Muggeridge

• Well, it seems all the fish in the rivers are dying. Could this be an act of cod?

  Author: Colin Mochrie

• My best friend and I love to make fish faces.

  Author: Beverley Mitchell

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

  Author: Imelda Marcos

• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

  Author: Maimonides

• Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.

  Author: Norman MacCaig

• I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.

  Author: Norman MacCaig

• Don't bottom fish.

  Author: Peter Lynch

• I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.

  Author: Nick Lowe

• You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.

  Author: Audre Lorde

• That's what 90 percent of the people talk about when they're first exposed to the fish.

  Author: Mario Lopez

• The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.

  Author: Bjorn Lomborg

• If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

  Author: Doris Lessing

• He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

  Author: John Lennon

• It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

  Author: Stephen Leacock

• Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

  Author: David Lawrence

• Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

  Author: Marie Laurencin

• I only eat fish - no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites.

  Author: Jack LaLanne

• I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

  Author: Karl Lagerfeld

• I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the fishermen and the families that ran the boats. I would go work the fields with farmers. I would go and talk with farmers about growing particular products for me.

  Author: Emeril Lagasse

• If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

  Author: Ben Kingsley

• People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

  Author: Soren Kierkegaard

• Then, as the day progresses, depending on how the product is coming in - for instance, the fish man will fax us and say black bass is great - throughout the day, we'll also make judgment calls and adapt to what's available.

  Author: Thomas Keller

• The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

  Author: Dean Kamen

• My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.

  Author: Magic Johnson

• It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.

  Author: Hugh Jacobsen

• What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.

  Author: Jay Inslee

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

  Author: Michael Hutchence

• So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air.

  Author: Rex Hunt

• From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.

  Author: Rex Hunt

• Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

  Author: Herbert Hoover

• All men are equal before fish.

  Author: Herbert Hoover

• Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

  Author: Oliver Holmes

• The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

  Author: Jim Hightower

• But I love fish, cheese and meat, and I eat everything, but only in small quantities if it's rich.

  Author: Eva Herzigova

• A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net.

  Author: Cynthia Heimel

• You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something.

  Author: Mitch Hedberg

• Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.

  Author: Isaac Hayes

• To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

  Author: John Hawkes

• I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.

  Author: Barbara Harrison

• My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop.

  Author: Pauline Hanson

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

  Author: Lasse Hallstrom

• I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.

  Author: Anthony Hall

• We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish.

  Author: Jennifer Granholm

• They may the better fish in the water when it is troubled.

  Author: Richard Grafton

• I like to be sort of grounded with Fish. But, at the same time, I think probably what's unique about us is the way other dynamics happen, where I'll play off Trey for awhile. When we start playing a jam, I don't usually know what's going to happen, I don't have a plan.

  Author: Mike Gordon

• Lately Fish and I have been hooking up more, which is a good thing because it's just been a struggle for me as a bass player to play with someone who's so creative on the drums, and lately it's been really good, especially during sound checks.

  Author: Mike Gordon

• Travelling to different countries is a goal. I wouldn't mind playing huge places if we got an opportunity to, but it's nice to play small places too. Fish was saying yesterday that he doesn't ever want to play stadiums, or maybe he would once, he said.

  Author: Mike Gordon

• 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.

  Author: Jeff Goldblum

• Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

  Author: Andre Gide

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

  Author: Jim Gerlach

• Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

  Author: Benjamin Franklin

• A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

  Author: Benjamin Franklin

• Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.

  Author: Bobby Flay

• I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

  Author: W. Fields

• Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

  Author: W. Fields

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

  Author: Tom Felton

• I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don't have any pets now.

  Author: Tom Felton

• I deep sea fish a lot.

  Author: John Entwistle

• I call it an old-fashioned seafood house for the new millennium. We are trying to update what we know as old fish houses and places like that, which are great, but I want to give it a new, fresh look with updated versions of the classics we all love.

  Author: Todd English

• I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.

  Author: Tracey Emin

• If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

  Author: Linda Ellerbee

• Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.

  Author: Sylvia Earle

• I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.

  Author: Trevor Dunn

• Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.

  Author: Theodore Dreiser

• Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

  Author: Tommy Douglas

• I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

  Author: Sam Donaldson

• I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

  Author: Anthony Doerr

• Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything.

  Author: Mike Ditka

• We are also working on the restoration of salmon runs, and we are doing a new process of mass marking with these fish so we can tell the wild fish from the hatchery fish.

  Author: Norm Dicks

• Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild.

  Author: Norm Dicks

• I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.

  Author: Larry David

• You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation.

  Author: Dick Dale

• New York is where you go to catch a big fish.

  Author: Jessica Cutler

• Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes.

  Author: Jon Crosby

• A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.

  Author: George Crabbe

• I was a hunter and fisherman, and many a time I have slipped out into the woods and prairies at 4 a.m. and brought home plenty of game, or have gone in a canoe to the cove and brought back a good supply of fresh fish.

  Author: Jay Cooke

• I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it.

  Author: Perry Como

• It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

  Author: Kurt Cobain

• The whales, you see, eat up the little fish.

  Author: Thomas Churchyard

• Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.

  Author: Yvon Chouinard

• No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

  Author: Lewis Carroll

• 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.

  Author: Al Capp

• The sea hath fish for every man.

  Author: William Camden

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

  Author: Eric Butterworth

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

  Author: Carol Burnett

• Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.

  Author: Tom Brown

• I followed him at the time and thought he was hysterical. He was the first serial killer, a new kettle of fish, because we didn't have the detection techniques in those days.

  Author: Matthew Bright

• When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.

  Author: Constantin Brancusi

• I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while.

  Author: Terry Bradshaw

• Retire to what? I already play golf and fish for a living.

  Author: Julius Boros

• Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning.

  Author: Nellie Bly

• Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?

  Author: Mark Bittman

• This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

  Author: Aneurin Bevan

• A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?

  Author: Drew Barrymore

• Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

  Author: Dave Barry

• The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.

  Author: Dave Barry

• Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.

  Author: Neal Barnard

• What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

  Author: Pedro Barca

• We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.

  Author: Abdullah Badawi

• What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin.

  Author: Dave Attell

• One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.

  Author: Yann Arthus-Bertrand

• The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target.

  Author: Mohammed al-Sahaf

• If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks.

  Author: George Allen, Sr.

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

  Author: Casey Affleck

• I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

  Author: Douglas Adams

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