Top 90 Goldfish Quotes & Sayings

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup-they all die. So do we.

Tony Fernandes is in that goldfish bowl and he's swimming against the tide.

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.

If beer got any lighter you could raise goldfish in it.

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.

Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish.

Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond!

A goldfish is reason enough for living, if someone needs a reason.

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

Bill has three goldfish. He buys two more. How many dogs live in London?

I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.

As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.

In a world where the body politic has the attention span at times of a goldfish, yep, you've got to have the ability to reinvent yourself in this game many times.

People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.

I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.

In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more.

Life isn’t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.

Clary's mother apparently reguarded him as about as sexually threatening as a goldfish.

Starlets were always turning up dead in people's pools. They fished them out like goldfish. Nobody seemed to find it unusual that so many young, beautiful women wanted to die.

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.

Most times a person grows up gradually, but I found myself in a hurry... Hoping to find an answer, I uncovered an article about the common goldfish. "Kept in a small bowl, the goldfish will remain small. With more space, the fish will double, triple, or quadruple in size." It occurred to me then that I was intended for larger things. After all, a giant man can't have an ordinary-sized life.

Everyone has a goldfish when they're little.

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.

A loach can't emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won't rise.

I have the financial morals of a goldfish, I can resist everything but temptation.

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.

I've watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I've seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis. And I had a golden retriever behave like one.

Goldfish in Chinese restaurants are there to draw in the gold, the money.

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

I once went with my grandson to a county fair where you shoot a water pistol at the clown's mouth. We came home with twelve stuffed animals and a goldfish.

I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.

We think of computers as smart and powerful machines. But your goldfish is smarter.

So I went in to a pet shop. I said, "Can I buy a goldfish?" The guy said, "Do you want an aquarium?" I said, "I don't care what star sign it is."

We have a puppy named Lucy... two cats... goldfish... and Louis, our lop earred rabbit.

I hate reality shows like Big Brother and I'm A Celebrity. I'd rather watch a goldfish bowl.

places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?

Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.

Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.

My friend once sculpted me a bust of Admiral Ackbar from 'Star Wars.' He's my favourite character in the films after Han Solo. He's that goldfish-type alien in the white costume. 'It's a trap!' I'm a big geek.

In the next shot the cameras zoomed to the fiancee who noticed the lights in the Czarina's room go out and the camera then turned to the pond where two goldfish were making love.

Frank couldn't breathe underwater. But where was he? Percy turned in a full circle. Nothing. Then he glanced up. Hovering above him was a giant goldfish. Frank had turned -clothes, backpack, and all- into a koi the size of a teen-aged boy. "dude." Percy sent his thoughts through the water, the way he spoke to other sea creatures. "A goldfish?" Frank's voice came back to him: "I freaked. We were talking about goldfish, so it was on my mind. Sue me.

The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish!

We have all been hypnotized into thinking that we are smaller than we are. Just as an undersized flowerpot keeps a mighty tree root-bound or a little fishbowl keeps goldfish tiny, we have adapted, adjusted, and accommodated to a Lilliputian life. But place the same tree in an open field or the fish in a lake, and they will grow to hundreds of times their size. Unlike the tree or goldfish, you are not dependent on someone else to move you. You have the power to move yourself. You can step into a broader domain and grow to your full potential.

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.

Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.

I grew up around animals [seven horses, dogs and now a pet goldfish named Leila] and I'm rebelling against them not having a natural existence.

There is a natural hootchy-kootchy motion to a goldfish.

She's born and raised with wildlife, living with a zoo. What would be strange for Bindi is if she were in an apartment in suburbia with a goldfish.

When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.

Unlike a goldfish, a computer can't really do anything without you telling it exactly what you want it to do.

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish

Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.

It's weird not having companionship and not having somebody to talk to. I have two goldfish in my hotel room. They said, "If you would like companionship, we can bring you a goldfish." I was like, "Bring me a goldfish!" I have two because when I needed the water changed they brought another one. I was like, "Don't take Desmond!"

I'm like a goldfish. My memory is terrible.

There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.

I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

Your husband drinks too much if he says he never drinks alone, but considers the goldfish somebody.