Quelle: Princess on the Brink
„A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.“
— Gloria Steinem American feminist and journalist 1934
This quote was popularized by Steinem and is often attributed to her. However, the line was first coined by Australian educator Irina Dunn, as indicated at The Phrase Finder http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/414150.html
Misattributed
„A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.“
— Irina Dunn Australian writer, documentary maker and Nuclear Disarmament Party politician 1948
Parodying 'A man needs God like a fish needs a bicycle.' http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/414150.html
— Sarah Palin American politician 1964
On the Record w/Greta Van Susteren
Television
Fox News
2011-03-23 (Borrowing a feminist slogan from Irina Dunn that is commonly misattributed to Gloria Steinem: "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle." http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/414150.html)
on NOW's criticism http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/22/now-defends-palin-against-maher-attack-but-says-we-are-on-to-you-right-wingers/ of a vulgar remark made by Bill Maher about Palin: "Did you hear this – Sarah Palin finally heard what happened in Japan and she's demanding that we invade 'Tsunami'. I mean she said, 'These Tsunamians will not get away with this.' Oh, speaking of dumb twats, did you –"
2014
„Cornbread, fish and collard greens.
I got what ya need, if you want it.“
— Anthony Hamilton American singer, songwriter, and record producer 1971
Cornbread, Fish & Collard Greens, written by Anthony Hamilton, James Poyser, and Diedra Artis.
Song lyrics, Comin' from Where I'm From (2003)
„I want to get out in the water. I wanted to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.“
— Sylvia Earle American oceanographer 1935
Interview: Sylvia Earle Undersea Explorer http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/printmember/ear0int-1, Academy of Achievement, January 27, 1991
— Anthony Scaramucci American financier and political figure 1964
Quoted in " Scaramucci: 'If Reince wants to explain he's not a leaker, let him do that' http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/27/politics/anthony-scaramucci-reince-priebus/index.html" by Dan Merica, Elizabeth Landers and Eugene Scott, CNN (July 27, 2017).
„I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.“
— Yanni Greek pianist, keyboardist, composer, and music producer 1954
Yanni in Words. Miramax Books. Co-author David Rensin
„If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.“
— Zane Grey American novelist 1872 - 1939
Tales of Southern Rivers (1924).
„What do you need fish balls for?“
Radio From Hell (May 17, 2006)
„The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.“
— Christopher Morley, buch Parnassus on Wheels
Quelle: Parnassus on Wheels
„I thought of that while riding my bicycle.“
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
— Iris Murdoch, buch The Red and the Green
Quelle: The Red and the Green
— Giovannino Guareschi Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist 1908 - 1968
The Bicycle
Don Camillo and the Prodigal Sun (1952)
— David Lynch American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor 1946
Introduction, p. 1
Catching the Big Fish (2006)
Quelle: Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
Kontext: Ideas are like fish.
If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper.
Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful.
— Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
Why not use the same common sense when fishing for people?
Quelle: How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), Ch. 3.
— Trevor Noah, buch Born a Crime
That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.
page 190
Born a Crime
„Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.“
— Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist 1817 - 1862
— Indra Nooyi Indian-born, naturalized American, business executive 1955
Quoted in How PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi gave up cricket for baseball!, 25 March 2012, 18 December 2013, Economic Times http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-05-25/news/31852241_1_ceo-indra-nooyi-bat-and-ball-sport-david-novak,
— Flann O'Brien, buch The Third Policeman
Page 85
The Third Policeman (1967)
— Megan Mullally American actress 1958
On being fired from "Finding Nemo" for refusing to do her Karen voice
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