Eels Quotes

If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

Politician: An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared.

I have a name,” I grumped, my stomach pinching me harder. “Yes, but it has no pizzazz. Ra-a-a-a-chel. Rach-e-e-e-eel,” he said, trying it out in different ways. “No one will tremble in terror at that. Oh my God!” he said in a high falsetto. “It’s Rachel! Run! Hide!

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.

My hovercraft is full of eels.

Learn to get used to it. Eels get used to skinning.

Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.

Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.

Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.

[W]hat have we done with our forests? Chopped them, and burned them, and wasted them; and now almost the last of the great stands of timber are here on the Pacific slope. We are in the center of the best of them. Probably nowhere on earth does there exist a forest to compare in continuous grandeur and unqualified beauty with the Redwoods that are found along the Eel River and to the north.

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

The apartments are made for eels.

Now people who keep fish disturb me the most, if I'm totally honest. They always smell a bit like fish food and they know just a bit too much about eels.

Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!" "No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?" "Not such a waste of time as talking to you!

They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.