A Quote by Thomas Shadwell

I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.

Thomas Shadwell

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Am Company Fish Ladies Like Out Water

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Thomas Shadwell
English - Dramatist
1642 - 1692

The process could be likened to relaxing on a riverbank and watching a fish leap out of the water, sparkle for a moment in the sunlight, then dive back in a graceful arc. There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.

Bill Vaughan

We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love. I imagine the fish out of water is the only fish to have an inkling of water.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Dhikr (remembrance of Allah) is to the heart as water is to a fish; see what happens to a fish when it is taken out of water

Ibn Taymiyyah

If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle.

Gayle Forman

Greatness exists like an ocean within you. Why do you want to act like a fish out of water, wriggling on the sand under the scorching sun? Look! The water is just one millimeter away! Jump in!

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

I am a pisces, a fish out of water, searching for a way back home.

James Kidd

I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.

Sylvia Earle

I didn't have boyfriends until my late teens. I was at a girls' boarding school, and my stepfather disapproved of me going out with anybody. I never really came across any boys. When I did, one of them asked me out, and I was petrified. I felt like a fish out of water, and it was excruciating.

Pattie Boyd

I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.

Warren Buffett

I would like to think I am a little bit of a man's man and a ladies' man. I suppose, I'm a guy's guy because I like to do a lot of, you know, the man stuff: Working out, off-roading, getting on the dirt bike and what not. I am a ladies' man because I spend more time with girls than I do with guys.

Dan Bilzerian

Awards shows... I just feel like a fish out of water at those things.

Jesse Plemons

The popular masses are like water, and the army is like a fish. How then can it be said that when there is water, a fish will have difficulty in preserving its existence? An army which fails to maintain good discipline gets into opposition with the popular masses, and thus by its own action dries up the water.

Mao Zedong

Having a mixed background and feeling a little bit like a fish out of water in most places can be a benefit.

Viggo Mortensen

Younger generations in particular, who have spent a great deal of time in information environments since they were small children, would feel like a fish out of water if they were shut out of the global stream of information.