A Quote by Lefty Gomez

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

Lefty Gomez

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Pet Bowl Goldfish Got Invention New Revolving Tired

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Lefty Gomez
American - Athlete
November 26, 1908 - February 17, 1989

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.

Graham Taylor

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.

Graham Taylor

I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.

Paula Fox

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

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

Princess Margaret

I sometimes still feel I am living in a goldfish bowl, but I now manage it better. I still have a naughty streak, too, which I enjoy and is how I relate to those individuals who have got themselves into trouble.

Prince Harry

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

Ozzy Osbourne

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

Niall Quinn

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

Robert Plant

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.

John August

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

Janet Street-Porter

Every invention creates new needs, but the biggest needs are not for new and more advanced versions of the last invention but for solutions to the social problems the last invention created.

Philip Slater

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.

Edward V. Long

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

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.