Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.

Don Rickles

In the 45 years I've worked in casinos, I dreamed of being honored by an organization like the American Gaming Association, especially since I don't even have a hunting license.

Allan Bloom

University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.

Aldo Leopold

How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook!

Aldo Leopold

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct

Aldo Leopold

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

Douglass North

I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington.

Anne Sexton

I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.

Derek Mazeitis

The wind was pretty strong. I don't know what it was like in Leavenworth, but in Topeka it was pretty harsh.

Adam Zuleger

The wind set it off once. And we sprinted over there. But there was no fish.

S. Hughes

The wind is at the back to this industry, no question.

Barbara Kingsolver

Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.

Ayn Rand

The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

Buster Keaton

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

Diane Ackerman

There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.

Bret Easton Ellis

I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)

Billie Joe Armstrong

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.

Demetri Martin

They should call fishing what it really is... tricking and killing!

Paul Lee

Fishing is our main hobby and I think it is the only thing we are good at.

E. M. Forster

English literature is a flying fish.

Thomas Shadwell

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

Sylvia Earle

The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.

Tom Riley

My fishing hole is deader than...a dead thing that's dead.

Tim Blake Nelson

I've done about every kind of fishing you can imagine, but I've never noodled. And the reason I've never noodled is because I don't want to get bit by a water moccasin. I'm just too afraid of snakes.

Stephen Leacock

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

Robbie Robertson

I play guitar quite a bit, because I'm always in search of something. I don't play to jam, but because I'm fishing. I'm looking for something, that I hope you can never find. If I do find it, I'm afraid I won't have a need to do this any more.