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I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is.

I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don’t like eating fish. And I know that's ...

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A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.

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Charles SimicThe Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs

I eliminated coffee and fish from my diet. The pesticides in coffee and fish, as well as the mercury...

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Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the ambe...

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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an abs...

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What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you shoul...

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The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eye...

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The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

Fenchurch had red mullet and said it was delicious.Arthur had a swordfish steak and said it made him...

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I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel ...

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I ask Laurie if it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produ...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish.

A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I c...

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We have here other fish to fry.

We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds,...

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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

Under the sea the old fish eat the young fish.

I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.

Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for...

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This was all horribly wrong. This was red wine with fish. This was a man wearing a dinner jacket and...

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When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers...

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God never did make a more calm quiet innocent recreation than angling.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Doc was collecting marine animals in the Great Tide Pool on the tip of the Peninsula. It is a fabulo...

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It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish an...

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He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting,...

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It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a bi...

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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

A man who tosses worms in the river isn’t 't necessarily a friend of the fish. All the fish who take...

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To fish in troubled waters.

As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivio...

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There were no oceans on Oasis, no large bodies of water, and presumably no fish. He wondered whether...

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Michel FaberThe Book of Strange New Things

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and ...

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P. G. WodehouseA Wodehouse Bestiary

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the righ...

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The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisher...

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Master I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. Why as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the li...

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My sperm came out into the water, unaccustomed to the light, and instantly it became a misty, string...

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Richard BrautiganTrout Fishing in America

The orange of the golden carp appeared at the edge of the pond. . . . We watched in silence at the b...

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A fishing-rod was a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Ta...

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A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved...

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

I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by...

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Yes, sir, but the Librarian likes bananas, sir.""Very nourishin' fruit, Mr Stibbons.""Yes, sir. Alth...

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I'm a very, very healthy eater. I eat lots of fish, lots of vegetables, lots of fruit. I don't eat j...

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If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has ...

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