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Quotes About Fish

Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many North African fish dishes.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
The food culture that has most impressed me is Oman's. I learned to make an amazing spice mix that they rub into goat and fish meat, and ate the best flatbreads.
~ Monica Galetti
Throw a lucky man into the sea and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
~ Arab proverb
If living on fruits and water is of superior merit, monkeys and fish will go to heaven before men.
~ Meera
A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm
~ William Shakespeare
A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.
~ Selma Lagerlöf
Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.
~ Ann Landers
Frozen water is less dense than liquid water…and ice floats. In the winter, the top surface [of a lake] gets cold. The top water will freeze, and not drop, thereby insulating the liquid water below, protecting the fishes through the winter months. It's a remarkable feature of water.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Fish don't have hands; to investigate, they open their mouth, and sometimes it's someone's foot.
~ Jeremy Wade
My father was often away with the army, or in London, but mum did a lot of the cooking. She never liked cakes - not baking. Meat. Fish. That's what she did.
~ Tom Parker Bowles
To say time is evil because evil happens in time is like saying the ocean is a fish because fish happen in the ocean.
~ Christopher Isherwood
In the market, tourists were still crowded around the fish stand. White-aproned vendors threw thirty-pound king salmons through the air to one another: at every toss, tourists snapped photographs.
~ Kristin Hannah
you how to can salmon. You need to
~ Kristin Hannah
He seems to have developed a rare, little-understood affliction called poikilothermism. The victim loses the normal mammalian ability to keep his body temperature constant, regardless of changes in the ambient temperature. His body assumes the temperature of its surroundings, as if he were a reptile or a fish.
~ L. Sprague de Camp
All of this cuteness, it was one of nature's great bait and switches, because... that wasn't all there was to Zuzana Nováková. Not even a little bit. Deciding to take her on was akin to a fish deciding idly to gobble up that pretty light bobbing in the shadows and then--OH GOD THE TEETH THE HORROR!--meeting the anglerfish on the other side.
~ Laini Taylor
Among the valleys of the distant waves we will eventually meet. […] The orange sun will recognize us. It owes us. It will be the sun from nineteen hundred and forty-forever. O no cloud in the sky! O ocean full of fish hiding! The sun seduced us before we could be virgins.
~ Landis Everson
He tried to learn seductive phrases in all languages, but the only Swedish he had ever really needed was, "Do you serve anything aside from pickled fish?" and "If you wrap me in furs, I can pretend to be your little fuzzy bear.
~ Cassandra Clare
Mark held up his plastic bag. Inside it, a small orange fish swam around in a circle. "This is the best patrol we've ever done," he said. "I have never been awarded a fish before.
~ Cassandra Clare
Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest... Lots of nuts, vegetables, fruits, fresh fish, lean meats, yogurt.
~ Cat Cora
With every morsel I consumed, I was informed that princes most love slender young ladies. As I was as interested in a prince's love as in sticking my fish fork into my ear, I reacted to this by cleaning my plate ever more thoroughly.
~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Drifting on the black, rippling surface were fingers. Thumbs. Dozens of them. Hundreds, floating like dead fish in a dynamited pond. I saw part of an ear. The lights went out.
~ Glen Hirshberg
I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.
~ Gordon Ramsay
The cat loves fish, but she's loath to wet her feet.
~ Proverb
Fish and Visitors stink in 3 days.
~ Benjamin Franklin, 1736