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Quotes About Fish

No one understands the impacts of shifting fish stocks more than commercial and recreational fishermen in my district.
~ Jeff Van Drew
You see, I am friends with a lobsterman. Because we are friends, which feels lucky anyway, I get access to the most amazing fish. It's like having a backstage pass - a culinary jackpot that feels almost undeserved.
~ Isabel Gillies
Crispy-skinned fish is an elusive thing. As soon as your filet makes contact with a hot pan, it wants to curl up, which leads to uneven cooking and floppy skin.
~ Sohla El-Waylly
Dashi remains unfamiliar to most French and American cooks, who tend to reach for a bouillon cube to do many of the same things. But dashi is worth preparing and using the way the Japanese do: for poaching fish, as a soup base, and in simmered dishes.
~ Nobu Matsuhisa
You cannot drown a fish in the ocean, no matter how deep you sink it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Fish cannot swim out of water.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Bait, no matter how big, is useless if fish do not desire it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Logic is a net to catch a "fish" with. And the Truth is like water that can not be caught with net
~ Anatoliy Obraztsov
I like to grill, like a standard guy. I like to grill steaks and fish.
~ Ben Falcone
The man who comes to take care of my piranhas told me that if I left West Ham he would kill all my fish.
~ Paolo Di Canio
Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.
~ Herbert Hoover
If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod... But it has among its predators - man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod.
~ Mark Kurlansky
For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Our meditations waver and recover us, waver and reel us in to our bodies like fish willing at last to take on the joy of being fish, in or out of the water. When we gather at last at the summit and sit with him we know we have moved the mountain to its top as much as it carried us deeply into each step.
~ Tess Gallagher
At high tide fish eat ants; at low tide ants eat fish.
~ Thai Proverb
Grains and beans are negative aspects of the Mediterranean Diet that are countered by the large amounts of olive-oil polyphenols, large amounts of red-wine polyphenols, and fish.
~ Steven Gundry
I mean, my family liked eating, but I was one of those kids who, you know, I hated fish until I was probably in my early 20s. When I went to college, I had no idea how to cook.
~ J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
The grouper isn't one of your prettier fish, but it's versatile. They're all born female and produce eggs before they change sex and become functioning males.
~ Nora Roberts
In Irish folklore," she read, "you're supposed to be a descendent of the Dobhar-chú. And what the hell is that?" She did another search. "Half dog, half otter or fish?
~ Nora Roberts
We wouldn't eat an important person like you. Sometimes we'll take a sailor, but — He shrugged. — so would you if it was always fish.
~ Clive Barker
But for ourselves, we resent teachers. Let a man get up and say, 'Behold, this is the truth,' and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.
~ Virginia Woolf
A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That's what I like about coincidence.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
And to fulfill the fish wish of the womb, A school of Freudians headed for the tomb.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I don't drink water. Fish fuck in it.
~ W.C. Fields