Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. S. Gilbert

She's been killing it all season and is only getting better.

Steve Spurrier

Six and five, ... We thought 6-5 would be a wonderful season for this team.

Cate Blanchett

I look forward to the holiday season every year.

Penny Hardaway

I feel great. I can't wait for the season to start.

I can't say enough about Brandon. He wrestled really well today, and all season long.

Jim Gerlach

Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.

Jim Harrison

It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close if you wanted. Perhaps it's standing thigh deep in a river with the water passing at the exact but varying speed of life. You easily recognize this mortality and it dissipates into the landscape.

Jerome K. Jerome

So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count each fish that he caught as ten, and to assume ten to begin with. For example, if he did not catch any fish at all, then he said he had caught ten fish - you could never catch less than ten fish by his system; that was the foundation of it. Then, if by any chance he really did catch one fish, he called it twenty, while two fish would count thirty, three forty, and so on.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Perhaps the time has come to formulate a moral code which would govern our relations with the great creatures of the sea as well as with those on dry land. That this will come to pass is my dear wish.

Jackson Browne

Rock me on the water Sister will you soothe my fevered brow Rock me on the water I'll get down to the sea somehow

Christopher Lasch

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

Christopher Isherwood

The sea only drowns its lovers.

Herbert Hoover

Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.

Eugene Field

I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.

Ernest Hemingway

The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.

Ernest Hemingway

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

Ernest Hemingway

Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .

Ernest Hemingway

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

Ernest Hemingway

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea...

Ernest Hollings

Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva.

Ernest Istook

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

Florence Scovel Shinn

One's ships come in over a calm sea.

Ezra Pound

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

Francis Drake

It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

Francesca Lia Block

You asked me who I thought I was before. I said maybe I was a fish because I love water and you said, you thought a mermaid, maybe. If you were a mermaid, you said, if you were a mermaid, I was the sea.

Francesca Lia Block

If you were a mermaid, you said, If you were a mermaid, I was the sea.

Chris Pratt

I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.

George R. R. Martin

The sea is never weary. I must be as tireless.

Fernando Pessoa

God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.

Fernando Pessoa

The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.

Fernando Pessoa

Oh salty sea, how much of your salt Is tears from Portugal?

Fernando Pessoa

It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.

Herbert Hoover

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.