Fish Quotes

"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"

Norm Dicks, Politician

"Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring"

Tom Brown

"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"

Todd English, Celebrity

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

Jack LaLanne, Athlete

"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"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

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

Carol Burnett, Actress

"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"

Matthew Bright, Director

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

Lasse Hallstrom, Director

"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"

Michael Stipe, Musician

"So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips, loads of it, till I felt sick - but at least I'd had the pleasure of stuffing my face and feeling really full"

John Prescott, Politician

"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"

Norm Dicks, Politician

"Fish recognize a bad leader"

Conan O'Brien, Entertainer

"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"

Jennifer Granholm, Politician

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

Casey Affleck, Actor

"No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise"

Lewis Carroll, Author

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

Stephen Leacock, Economist

"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"

Theodore Dreiser, Novelist

"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"

Linda Ellerbee, Journalist

"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"

Perry Como, Musician

"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"

Mike Gordon, Musician

"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"

Rex Hunt, Entertainer

"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"

Rex Hunt, Entertainer

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

Colin Mochrie, Actor

"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"

Benicio Del Toro, Actor

"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"

Anthony Doerr, Writer

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

Julius Boros, Athlete

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

Mark Ruffalo, Actor

"The sea hath fish for every man"

William Camden, Historian

"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"

Stevie Smith, Poet

"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net"

Cynthia Heimel, Writer

"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"

Vince Poscente

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

Nicholas Negroponte, Businessman

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

Grant Wood, Artist

"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"

Jay Cooke, Businessman

"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"

Neal Barnard, Author

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

Mario Lopez, Actor

"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"

Dave Attell, Comedian

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

John C. Hawkes, Novelist

"My best friend and I love to make fish faces"

Beverley Mitchell, Actress

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

Jim Gerlach, Politician

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