Quotes About Goldfish

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

For even in the misty light, the goldfish man could see her smiling a secret smile up to the sky to where the mountain meets the moon.

I felt as conspicuous as a baby whale in a goldfish pond.

There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.

The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish!

Yeah, that sure was Mace Llewellyn staring at her from the other side of her desk. Just staring. Like he used to. Like he knew where she'd buried the bodies of all her goldfish after their unfortunate "accidents" or what she did with her sisters' toothbrushes on more than one occasion.

Liberation was in the very scale of the city: a goldfish bowl one could never grow to fit.

I read that goldfish have a memory of five seconds. I envy them. My memory of Alex, my love for him, will last my lifetime.

Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.

The stone basin was crusted with ice now. The courtyard security light illuminated its depths, and as he leaned over it he could make out the fiery glints of goldfish beneath the surface. There, beneath the cover of the ice, their flickering lives went on. He wanted to know how they did it, how they withstood the slowing of their hearts, the chilling of their blood, through the long darkness of winter.

Sometimes, Stukeley wondered if the captain, in spite of his considerable powers, was blessed with the memory of a goldfish.

I have pets, but they're the really ordinary sort - yellow Labrador, tabby cat, white rabbit, a few goldfish - that kind of stuff. Nothing very... extravagant or unusual or exotic, but I find, in terms of inspiration, Mother Nature is just it.

places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?

So I went in to a pet shop. I said, "Can I buy a goldfish?" The guy said, "Do you want an aquarium?" I said, "I don't care what star sign it is."

She's born and raised with wildlife, living with a zoo. What would be strange for Bindi is if she were in an apartment in suburbia with a goldfish.

In the next shot the cameras zoomed to the fiancee who noticed the lights in the Czarina's room go out and the camera then turned to the pond where two goldfish were making love.

and there was a fish pond a large one full of the fattest goldfish you ever saw and they were tame. they came to the surface of the water and took pieces of bread from our hands.

She stumbled back a step. "Carlos was the…?" "Panther, aye." "He's a cat?" And her boss was a dog. She shook her head. Was her next door neighbor a goldfish?

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.

Smoles lived alone in this huge house for several reasons, the main one being that no one else wanted to live there with him. He had quite a time keeping staff and his dogs kept running away and he'd tried goldfish but they all ran away too—he could never figure out how, but he'd come home and find the bowls empty and the fish just plain gone.

It made him feel indispensable and needed - even if the fact that Jocelyn didn't appear to care wheather he slept in her daughter's bed or not did underscore that Clary's mother apparently regarded him as about sexually threatening as a goldfish.

My goldfish is swimming around all excited inside the fishbowl on the fridge so I reach up and drop a Valium in its water.

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.