fish

I love the water. Everything about it. Smelling the humidity in the air, seeing the mist rise in the morning, feeling the dew-wet grass on my bare feet. I love watching the fish jump and the geese land. We even have an eagle here that circles every so often.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some kinds of odour well, and is kind to sound - letting it travel several times faster than air will allow, but it inhibits other more personal kinds of communication.

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.

With all due respect to the nation's fish and game departments, more deer die because people hunt them than because people feed them.

My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.

The old attitude toward newspapers was that they were completely disposable - today's newspaper is tomorrow's fish wrap.

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.

We have here other fish to fry.

God never did make a more calm quiet innocent recreation than angling.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.

She is neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring.

To fish in troubled waters.