Quotes tagged ‘Fishing’

“Mike Banning: You must really like fishing, Mr. President. It’s cold out here. President Allan Trumbull: Sorry. Anything to get out of DC for a while.”

— Robert Mark Kamen, Matt Cook, Ric Roman Waugh, Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin Benedikt, Allan Trumbull, Morgan Freeman, imdb.com

“The easy path is not the right path.”

— Roy Seiders, youtube.com

“You know when I was your age, I went out to fishing with all my brothers and my father, and everybody. And I was, I was the only one who caught a fish. Nobody else could catch one except me. You know how I did it? Every time I put the line in the water I said a Hail Mary and every time I said a Hail…”

— Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Fredo Corleone, John Cazale, imdb.com

“Dave Shutton: What are you using for bait? Lisa: My brother is using worms, but I, who feel the tranquility far outweighs the actual catching of fish, am using nothing.”

— Sam Simon, John Swartzwelder, Lisa Simpson, Yeardley Smith, imdb.com

“Ash: Well, now that you're back, what's your big plan? Suzy: Well, just try to get everything back to normal. Ash: Normal? Ha. What's normal? Suzy: Family, work. Ash: Work? Work, where? Suzy: Oh, I'm an English teacher. Ash: What grade? Suzy: Tenth. Ash: What's your favorite book? Suzy: 'The Old Man…”

— Dominic Dierkes, Ashley 'Ash' J. Williams, Bruce Campbell, imdb.com

“hen I was 14 years old, my grandfather took me crabbing. Now, crabbing's a lot different from trout fishing. See, you tie the bait on the line, you drop it in the water, and when you feel the crab crawl up on the bait, and start nibbling away, you have to slowly raise the line to the surface and the…”

— Chris Abbott, Thomas Magnum, Tom Selleck, imdb.com

“This is like shooting fish in a bathtub.”

— John W. Dunn, Texan, Paul Frees, imdb.com

“Ralph: What do you know about fishing? When have you ever caught anything? Alice: Fifteen years ago. I caught 300 pounds of blubber.”

— Leonard Stern, Sydney Zelinka, Ralph Kramden, Jackie Gleason, imdb.com

“Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Don’t teach a man to fish…and feed yourself. He’s a grown man. And fishing’s not that hard.”

— Amy Poehler, Ron Swanson, Nick Offerman, imdb.com

“Fishing is for sport only. Fish meat is practically a vegetable.”

— Alan Yang, Ron Swanson, Nick Offerman, imdb.com

“Fishing relaxes me. It’s like yoga, except I still get to kill something.”

— Aisha Muharrar, Ron Swanson, Nick Offerman, imdb.com

“Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.”

— Unknown, amazon.com

“I remember being at a shoreline, watching a little grey fish heave itself up on the beach. And an older brother saying, 'Don't step on that fish Castiel, big plans for that fish.' I remember the Tower of Babel—all 37 feet of it, which I suppose was impressive at the time. And when it fell they howle…”

— Ben Edlund, Castiel, Misha Collins, imdb.com

“Men posting fish photos are signaling that they’d be valuable partners — that they have both the ability to provide resources and the tendency to seek resources beyond what’s currently available.”

— Gina Ryder, thecut.com

“Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.”

— Hank Aaron, baseball-almanac.com

“Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.”

— Jacques Cousteau, en.wikiquote.org

“Fishing would be a lot less popular if fish made noise as they were in pain or suffocating.”

— SJW-leads-1984, reddit.com

“Beauty is a lure.”

— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, Dolores Abernathy, Evan Rachel Wood, imdb.com

“Fishing relaxes me. It's like yoga except I still get to kill something.”

— Amy Poehler, Michael Schur, Greg Daniels, Ron Swanson, Nick Offerman, imdb.com

“I don’t take my career for granted, which is why every April I renew my commercial crab fisherman’s license.”

— Conan O'Brien, twitter.com