Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Eliot

Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.

If I don't fish for a season, I'm dead. I'm history. It scares the heck out of me. I'm 56. I've done this my whole life. I don't know what else I would do.

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.

Richard Smalley

We'd like to make it [bucky fiber] in a continuous fiber, roll it on a drum, and go fishing with it.

John Badham

Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get to the end of the line and you tie on this clear plastic, thin thread called monofilament.

Jimmy Webb

We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.

Henry Paulson

One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing.

Tom Brokaw

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is the high church.

Joseph Monninger

I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.

Mario Lopez

Like they say, you can learn more from a guide in one day than you can in three months fishing alone.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

John Wallace

It is public land and we will do our best to provide recreational activities. We are looking at initially allowing kayak access, wade fishing, bicycle access and walking access on some of the interior roads.

Martin Milner

I love talk and I love fishing. I'm having a ball.

Moses

Never leave fish to find fish.

All sight fish must be hooked in the mouth.

The matter has been turned over to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for investigation." ()

Henry Van Dyke

I'm only wishing to go a-fishing;For this the month of May was made.

Louis Nizer

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

John Buchan

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

John C. Maxwell

Never open a can of worms unless you plan to go fishing.

Morgan Ensberg

The guy fishes with dynamite. That should encapsulate the guy.

Peter Benchley

The great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail

Maxine Hong Kingston

How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.

Norman MacCaig

When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.

Norman Maclean

Poets talk about "spots of time", but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time is until suddenly the whole world is a fish and the fish is gone.

Norman Maclean

One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing

Norman Maclean

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.

Norman Maclean

Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect

The fish don't know to stay away from New Orleans.

The fish are hunting for food all night and the need to rest during the day, and by having the humans going and interact with them, we're interfering with their rest cycle.

The fish always stinks from the head downwards.

You've got to get down to the fish zone.

Michael Smith

All we can guarantee is the fish are there.