Quotes About Fish

I take apart restaurant menus everywhere I go. I kind of tick off a lot of chefs in restaurants because I'll say, 'You can keep all of the sauce, keep all of that garbage - just give me that piece of fish. Forget the salad dressing, I don't need all of that extra stuff. Just give it to me straight up, and I'll eat it.'

I grew up in the Southwest of the U.K., on the coast in Cornwall. I used to keep a marine fish tank outside the house, where we would go down to the tide pools and catch fish and crabs. I think I caught a cuttlefish once.

We had a family beach house in Savai'i in western Samoa. When the tide used to come in it would come under the house and you could watch the fish from sitting in the lounge. It was so beautiful.

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

A fish kept in a glass of water will live forever

Their [500 Siberian Tribes] presence predated Russians by thousands of years. Yet they are routinely referred to as 'half-thawed humanity' and 'descendants of fish'...

Fish must swim thrice--once is the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.

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

Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma' is good-lookin', So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.

Miró a Gertrudis en busca de ayuda, pero ésta seguía callada, replegada en sí misma como uno de esos moluscos de nombres raros que ofrecían en el Mercado Central las vendedoras de pescado.

ojos profundos y de luz vivísima y se movía en el agua como un pez.

Cod meat has virtually no fat (.3 percent) and is more than 18 percent protein, which is unusually high even for fish. And when cod is dried, the more than 80 percent of its flesh that is water having evaporated, it becomes concentrated protein - almost 80 percent protein.

It is a peculiarity of the English language that while most fish swim in schools, herring swim in shoals, a word of the same meaning derived from the same Anglo-Saxon root.

The salt intake of Europeans, much of it in the form of salted fish, rose from forty grams a day per person in the sixteenth century to seventy grams in the eighteenth century.

Take the tail of the female tuna—and I'm talking of the large female tuna whose mother city is Byzantium.

In fact, the first experiments in refrigeration were not with fish or meat but with everyone's favorite luxury—butter.

Cod became almost a religious icon - a mythological crusader for Christian observance.

MORE THAN A gastronomic development, the salting of fowl and especially of fish was an important step in the development of economies.

AFTER THE FALL of Rome in the fifth century, garum was often thought of as just one of the unpleasant hedonistic excesses for which Rome was remembered. Leaving fish organs in the sun to rot was not an idea that endured in less extravagant cultures. Of course when garum was made properly, the salt prevented rotting until the fermentation took hold. But it became increasingly difficult to convince people of this.

I have since found that almost everybody in the meat business is funny —just as almost everyone in the fish business is not.

O peixe é um negócio complicado. O snapper vermelho pode custar ao chefe apenas oito euros por quilo, mas esse valor inclui as espinhas, a cabeça, as escamas e tudo o mais que é cortado e deitado fora. Pronto, o preço real de cada filete limpo custou ao chefe mais do dobro daquela quantia e, assim, ele realmente prefere vendê-lo a deitá-lo no lixo. Se ainda não cheirar mal na segunda-feira à noite, você irá comê-lo.

Desde então tenho visto que praticamente toda a gente no negócio da carne é engraçada – assim como praticamente toda a gente no negócio do peixe não tem graça nenhuma.

E'en fishes by nature seek authentic Truth,     For to hear scriptures they leap through the waves.

Widmerpool's face assumed a dramatic expression that made him look rather like a large fish moving swiftly through opaque water to devour a smaller one.