Top 570 Fish Quotes

Roasting fish that’s encased inside a salt crust is a centuries-old method of ensuring moist, ultra-flavorful flesh.
Jonathan Miles
I’d go fishing and always pretend I would catch the biggest fish. I’d stay out there for hours after everybody else left until I caught something. When I shot baskets, I was always the coach and star player and always made the winning shot.
Jerry West
I was 7 or 8, and my parents gave me a rod and reel as a way to get me out of the house. My first fish was a roach fish, and I remember being frightened to touch it. It was wriggling and cold blooded, but it was magical.
Jeremy Wade
I like my fried chicken, my pizza, my peaches and my gefilte fish.
Terrell Suggs
Yeah, some kids called me fish lips because I had these really full lips. Now I’m sure all those same girls are getting collagen injections, so I’m having the last laugh.
Denise Richards
I used to think that eating healthy was ordering a fish sandwich at McDonalds.
John Mellencamp
If you are going to wrestle a bear, try to stay away from all fish oil products, you know. I mean it’s tough for me, because I love to rub myself with salmon oil every day – it’s a great conditioner for the hair, skin.
Will Ferrell
I had a series of jobs in the small fishing village in West Wales where my family lived when I was a teenager. I worked as a fisherman in the day, and then the skipper and his wife ran a small restaurant – she’d cook the fish he caught.
Johnny Flynn
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you lea

Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
Ovid
It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don’t wrap fish in our work.
Hugh Newell Jacobsen
Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
Pericles
Even in the lives of fishes, sensation is seldom a matter of one thing or another. Senses overlap. The lines between them often tend to be blurred, and the best that we can manage, by way of description from the outside, is to say that the senses of fishes appear to dominate one at a time.
Lyall Watson
If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.
Captain Beefheart
I eat mostly vegetables and fish.
Andrew Tan
My nan tells me to eat her fish balls and not drink alcohol. I’d rather have the fish balls.
Jess Glynne
If you want to make money playing poker, find a game with a few suckers, fish, donkeys, live ones, or whatever you choose to call a bad player. Just don’t let that sucker be you.
Daniel Negreanu
People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They’ve got other fish to fry. They’d rather see a few great dance routines and the guy end up with the girl.
Alison Owen
The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.
Sam Snead
I love fish soup. Its a deeply satisfying dish. You can use almost any fish for this apart from the oily ones.
Rick Stein
Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats?
Steven Pinker
Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a primitive fish and turned a small lump of olfactory tissue on its nerve cord into a brain. We think because we smelled.
Lyall Watson
I’m not one of those people who say last year I caught a fish this big or I surfed a wave 20 feet or something. It’s a matter of what I do today. Everything else is a pleasurable memory.
Bruce Buffer
Ultimate Catch’ is probably the ultimate angling experience. I go further than ever in pursuit of a fish Ive always wanted to catch – the golden dorado. It lives in the middle of nowhere in Bolivia.
Robson Green
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Mark Twain
When I was a teenager, the actors I was really into were Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn. I saw ‘Rumble Fish’ on my 16th birthday, and around the same time, it was ‘Falcon and the Snowman’ and ‘Bad Boys’ from Sean Penn.
Aidan Gillen
I love to fish. You can go hours without anything happening, and all of a sudden a big blue marlin comes into the spread and it’s cockpit chaos. My dream is to catch a grander, a 1,000 pounder.
George Strait
The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fish bowl and tells you their point of view… The hedge funds and portfolio managers have a right to do this… We’ve muted the analysts and their presence in the system.
Mario Gabelli
Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.
Bobby Flay
You can’t beat a British holiday for rock pooling and sandcastles with fish and chips on the seafront – perfect.
Kate Garraway
At the time of ‘Neither Fish Nor Flesh’s non-performance in the marketplace – I believe that’s the expression – every single thing hit me at once. Legal situations, financial situations, the mother of my daughter and I were splitting up, everything.
Terence Trent D’Arby
I loved acting and wanted to be a leading man. But I decided I’d rather be a big fish in the stuntman pond than a little acting fish. I guess I must have made the right decision.
Hal Needham
You’re a smaller fish in the U.S. There’s just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actresses. Where as in the U.K. you’re in a much smaller market there.
India de Beaufort
I usually eat six times a day, small meals. For breakfast, an egg and a corn tortilla, salsa and cilantro, and some ham. For snacks, I’ll have an apple, some string cheese, a yogurt. For lunch I’ll have salad with protein in it and for dinner usually steamed vegetables and chicken or fish.
Sprague Grayden
I used to hunt and fish.
Bill Engvall
My oldest son always wants to race. He’s kind of like me and it now has carried over to the other two. They’re all pretty competitive now. We do stuff in the pool. They’re like fish in water. They go all over the place. They’re kids. They like to play, have fun and compete with everything they do.
Steve Blake
I’m a very, very healthy eater. I eat lots of fish, lots of vegetables, lots of fruit. I don’t eat junk food.
Victoria Beckham
The sea hath fish for every man.
William Camden
I’m from Manchester, Mass., so it was lobster, lobster and more lobster! Also, lots of fish that we caught in the summers, clam chowder and roast beef sandwiches. But my mom was pretty healthy; we had a lot of chicken and broccoli and rice as well.
Sprague Grayden
I’m not a great meat eater – I eat it twice a week. But I can’t stand fish – my mother says it’s because I got a fish bone stuck in my throat when I was little.
Chris de Burgh
When I was playing, I kept my calorie intake up with pr

When I was playing, I kept my calorie intake up with protein shakes and chicken, fish and steak. Now there’s no real diet, but I pay attention to what I eat.
Tim Henman
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
Ovid
If wishes were fishes we’d all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we’d all ride.
Douglas Horton
I don’t fish but had always wanted to after doing it as a kid.
Bob Mortimer
If anything betrays my Ashkenazi Jewish heritage – besides the Casper-the-friendly-ghost-like skin tone – it’s my love of fishy fish.
Claire Saffitz
I’m a passionate, hardcore fisherman. Biggest fish I caught? A 200-pound tarpon.
Dwayne Johnson
The South Coast is not teeming with fish any more; there are no fleets of trawlers left. Small local boats land their fish daily and often sell it at the back of the beach, a scenario repeated all the way from West Bay to Whitstable.
Rick Stein
We have very good fish in Iceland.
Hafthor Bjornsson
Wherever the fish are, that’s where we go.
Richard Wagner
Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain’s ready room died it was always a sad moment.
Patrick Stewart
It’s important for me to eat really healthy because I have such a sweet tooth. I eat fish and vegetables for lunch and dinner, and I work out every day.
Dylan Lauren
I really miss Australia. I miss eating fish n’ chips, oh my God, and Australian pies and the wonderful corner shops.
Luke Hemsworth
I do follow a version of the Dukan diet, but I don’t follow it to the extreme so a lot of fish and vegetables. If I want chocolate I’ll let myself have a bit of chocolate in moderation.
Katherine Jenkins
There’s all that brain work involved, remembering all those lines in a script. I find I have to eat a lot of fish, late – but not too late – in the afternoon. Doing theatre, you need to be like an athlete in training.
Jerry Hall
I don’t eat much meat, fish, or poultry.
Carol Burnett
The number one rule of fishing is be quiet. Don’t scare the fish!
Carole Radziwill
There’s fresh fish, and then there’s fresh fish. Samoa is ranked as one of the best places for game fishing in all the world, and runs thick in the waters off the island chain. In fact, it’s used as an edible currency in local markets. The day I fished there, we caught loads of yellowfin.
Andrew Zimmern
At 2, I start preparing fish or chicken for dinner. I don’t drive. I don’t have hobbies. I have no desire to travel.
Lawrence Sanders
I always have breakfast, say, scrambled egg whites, a vegetable smoothie, or whole-grain cereal with low-fat milk. For lunch and dinner, I eat a lot of fish and vegetables. And throughout the day, I try to stay hydrated.
Beyonce Knowles
The reason that fish form schools, birds form flocks, and bees form swarms is that they are smarter together than they would be apart. They don’t take a vote; they don’t take a poll: they form a system. They are all interactive and make a decision together in real time.
Louis B. Rosenberg
I eat fish and love bacon. Plus, I don’t mind if soups are made with chicken or beef stock, I just don’t like eating big pieces of meat.
Lisa Loeb
I’m hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.
Laurie Metcalf