Top 1200 Big Fish Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it.

A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans.

A Rod: An attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish.

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

Fish from all over the world, from deep in the sea, wind up in countries from Germany to Japan. That is just crazy.

Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.

There are many people who have big plans but their big plans never come true. The reason is, too many people have big plans but fail to keep their small agreements.

I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.

I use ginger like garlic. I love it for steaming fish and making barbecue sauces or roasted chicken.

My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, 'What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?'

Inter is a big step in my career. They're a big club and I'll do my best to perform well here.

It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.'

There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.

I like jewelry. Big rings, big necklaces. Shoes, belts, luggage.

Snapper is pretty forgiving for a white fish. The skin crisps up beautifully, which holds it together.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

I've always wanted a big old house with a big yard and lots of kids.

The man who comes to take care of my piranhas told me that if I left West Ham he would kill all my fish.

I pretty much eat all day to keep my strength up. I'm primarily a vegetarian who has an occasional side of fish.

Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.

Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.

The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish.

Marine protected areas, and particularly no-take zones, are very effective in allowing regeneration of fish stocks.

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? You ain't so big, you're just tall.

We in America have gotten addicted to cheap food. The result of that is antibiotic-laden fish, foods that are bred to be portable.

Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.

The bait is the means to get the fish where you want it, catch the fish and you forget the bait. The snare is the means to get the rabbit where you want it, catch the rabbit and forget the snare. Words are the means to get the idea where you want it, catch on to the idea and you forget about the words. Where shall I find a man who forgets about words, and have a word with him?

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

At home I keep things simple with fish, pasta and soups and am often preparing stuff for the family.

The universe looks less like a big machine than a big thought.

My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

We're not going to do monthly pay-per-view just to do pay-per-views. We're going to build up to big fights more like the boxing model, and when the time is right, we'll do the big, big fights.

Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.

I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping.

'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.

Everything is a possibility. I believe we're put on this earth to think big and dream big.

If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.

The teeth on [the viperfish] are so long that if they closed inside the mouth of the fish, it would actually impale its own brain.

Unless people die from it, a little diarrhea isn't going to stop us from having our live fish.

Having various types of fish in Kolkata is a must have and I am enjoying that every day for lunch and dinner.

As a CEO, you get sucked into dealing with all the tasks of being a CEO. There's a big meeting, a big discussion, and you get into all the big issues, which is your job. But what CEOs often lose sight of is that it's all about the people who work for you. For every 1,000 decisions, 999 were being made when I was not in the room.

So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.

I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.

Branson ate his salad, and left the rest of his fish untouched, while Grace tucked into his steak and kidney pudding with relish. 'I read a while ago,' he told Branson, 'that the French drink more red wine than the English but live longer. The Japanese eat more fish than the English but drink less wine and live longer. The Germans eat more red meat than the English, and drink more beer and they live longer too. You know the moral of this story? 'No' 'It's not what you eat or drink - it's speaking English that kills you.

Fish deserve to be caught for they are lazy. Two million years of evolution and they still haven't got out of the water.

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

Our cattle, poultry and fish should not be exposed to antibiotics or hormones that will be harmful to their human consumers.

... when a big man has a big idea I never like to stand in his way.

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

In books there's nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.

Anyone who goes on 'The X Factor' to make big money will be in for a big shock.

Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.

People think 'big data' avoids the problem of discrimination because you are dealing with big data sets, but, in fact, big data is being used for more and more precise forms of discrimination - a form of data redlining.