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Quotes About Salmon

You piss me off you Salmon... You're too expensive in restaurants.
~ Eddie Izzard
If smoking is so bad for you, how come it cures salmon?
~ Anonymous
For lunches he rode the elevator to the fourth-floor food court and ate Thai Town or Subway at a table tucked among potted tropicals, gazing past milling teenagers to the little penny-choked fountain where a copper salmon spat water into a chlorinated pool.
~ Anthony Doerr
My dinner options are kept simple during Wimbledon. I have either salmon with rice, roast chicken with vegetables and potatoes, or steak with salad. My girlfriend Kim will cook, and I know each night that it will be one of those three.
~ Andy Murray
I won't go deep sea fishing. The first time I experienced it, I went salmon fishing. My problem is, before I even get to the fish, I have vomited. You have to go out five miles, and you are just throwing a line in and bringing them to the surface. And then you have to go back five miles, and all of a sudden the wind comes up, and it gets choppy.
~ Henry Winkler
When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I used to look with awe at the window where men were hung, and the dark, closed gate.
~ Lady Gregory
The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Of course, Tally thought, you'd have to feed your cat only salmon-flavored cat food for a while, to get the pinks right.
~ Scott Westerfeld
I am not excited about Bitcoin. I think it's an outrage that, in an era of global warming, there are racks of servers next to the Columbia River. I wish I could explain to the salmon that we've created a dam generating hydroelectric power so that we can generate a fake currency.
~ Glenn Kelman
Instead, I woke early the next morning, before sunrise, and went out into the world. I walked past my car. I stepped onto the pavement, still warm from the previous day's sun. I started walking. In bare feet, I traveled upriver toward the place where I was born and will someday die. At that moment, if you had broken open my heart you could have looked inside and seen the thin white skeletons of one thousand salmon.
~ Sherman Alexie
What is it like to be a Spokane Indian without wild salmon? It is like being a Christian if Jesus had never rolled back the stone and risen from his tomb.
~ Sherman Alexie
we worship the salmon because we eat salmon
~ Sherman Alexie
The list of frequently used nouns included: struggle for peace, woman, love, constitution, deputy, congress, delegation, friend, mother, little girl, salmon, sturgeon, red (black) caviar, champagne, vodka, watermelon, cherry, sour cherry, horseradish, and beefsteak. "Fini!" exclaimed Piri happily: she was done gluing the mirror.
~ Elif Batuman
Goal: Clean air, clean clear-running rivers, the presence of Pelican and Osprey and Gray Whale in our lives; salmon and trout in our streams; unmuddied language and good dreams.
~ Gary Snyder
Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?
~ Mark Bittman
The longer the Prime Minister was in politics, the more he was learning to despise most politicians. And though a prime minister selected his ministers personally, it was not much of a choice when the pool contained more minnows and stickle-backs than it did pike and salmon.
~ Sally Spencer
The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.
~ Salmon P. Chase
gastronomically, a wild salmon and a farmed salmon have as much in common as a side of wild boar has with pork chops.
~ Mark Kurlansky
This one is from the 1851 edition of Miss Leslie's Directions for Cookery: BROILED SALMON Split the salmon and take out the bones as nicely as possible without mangling the flesh. Then cut it into filets or steaks about an inch thick. Dry them lightly in a cloth and dredge them in flour. Take care not to squeeze or press them. Have ready some clear, bright, coals, such as are
~ Mark Kurlansky
Waking up Thursday morning to another dreary day and the sense of being physically stuffed, they focused on FISH. While Charlotte interviewed the postmaster about the origin, techniques, and ingredients for his best-in-Maine lobster bakes, Nicole set off to gather recipes for glazed salmon, baked pesto haddock, and cod crusted with marjoram, a minted savory unique to Quinnipeague, and sage.
~ Barbara Delinsky
I'm a bit snobbish about breakfast: eggs benedict, or eggs royale, or something like that. Or just some really amazing, proper brown toast with smoked salmon, lemon, and black pepper. That's a great start to the day.
~ Jon Hopkins
I left home at the correct time but when I was riding along near the hatchery, the crew was separating some salmon, I guess I just got distraught, watching them.
~ Lois Lowry
I used to have a routine where I would eat a meal during the World Series of Poker. I would play, they would call it a day and I would go work out. I would always order poached salmon with mushrooms and I would dip the salmon into a side of ranch dressing.
~ Phil Hellmuth
Fast Action Plan: Eat wild salmon twice a week.
~ Jonny Bowden
Both of us have been buying our salmon from a wonderful company called Vital Choice for many years. Vital Choice is run by third-generation Alaskan fishermen who are scrupulous about using sustainable fishing and equally scrupulous about testing their fish thoroughly for contaminants and metals. They ship in dry ice, and they have the best fish we've ever tasted. Fast
~ Jonny Bowden