„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
„Fishes that tipple in the deep,
Know no such liberty.“
— Richard Lovelace, To Althea: From Prison, st. 2.
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„Joy to the world
All the boys and girls, now,
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me“
— Hoyt Axton American country singer 1938 - 1999
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„We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.“
— Marshall McLuhan Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a communicatio… 1918 - 1980
„One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish!“
— Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991
„I know the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully.“
— George W. Bush 43rd President of the United States 1946
Speech in Saginaw, Michigan (29 September 2000), http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-553138.html referring to a widely reported dispute in the Klamath region of Oregon between farmers with irrigation rights and Native Americans with fishing rights.
„In Heraclitus' river
a fish has imagined the fish of all fish“
— Wisława Szymborska Polish writer 1923 - 2012
Context: In Heraclitus' river
a fish has imagined the fish of all fish,
a fish kneels to the fish, a fish sings to the fish,
a fish begs the fish to ease its fishy lot.
"In Heraclitus' River"
„As fish in the water love deep places and wells and are most frequently found there, so wicked men have a great love to carnal security and have no will to strive against the stream. Fish love deep places best where there is least noise. Oh, how careful are natural men to keep all quiet, that there may be nothing to disturb them in their rest in sin! They love to be secure which is their destruction. O my soul, beware of carnal security, of being secure, though plunged over head and ears in sin.“
— Thomas Boston Scottish church leader, theologian and philosopher 1676 - 1732
The Art of Manfishing, First published 1699.
„It's absolutely, completely and totally reprehensible. And as you know from the Italian expression: The fish stinks from the head down. But I can tell you two fish that don't stink, and that's me and the President.“
— 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).
„It's like catching a fish, you know what I mean? It's the fish that's beautiful, not the fisherman. And I think whoever hasn't understood that attitude in Queens is not here any more. And if I ever think the fisherman's better than the fish, I hope someone fuckin' fires me too.“
— Josh Homme American musician 1973
" Dazed & Confused Magazine | Josh Homme | Sept'10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf8MQqPIroc", Dazed & Confused Magazine (September 2010)
„I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.“
— Jack Kerouac American writer 1922 - 1969
Letter to Ed White (5 July 1950) as published in The Missouri Review, Vol. XVII, No. 3, 1994, page 137, and also quoted in Jack Kerouac: Angelheaded Hipster (1996) by Steve Turner, p. 117
„This next song is about… fish… just one singular fish… he was a lonely fish, but he died happy.“
— Daniel Johns Australian musician 1979
31st of August, 2007 at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre, introducing "Tuna in the brine"
„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).
„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
„When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don’t need to see the silverpike to know they are there.“
— Robert Jordan American writer 1948 - 2007
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