Fish Analogy Quotes

One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.

They are big fish in a small pond.

Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at home in water, we are clearly not at home in time--because we belong to eternity.

A fish has no concept of water.

To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.

Asking someone in the media about liberal bias is like asking a fish about water. 'Huh, what are you talking about? Where is it?'

Listen," he said. "If you was a fish, Mother Nature'd take care of you, wouldn't she? Right? You don't think them fish just die when it gets to be winter, do ya?" No, but--" You're goddam right they don't

In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a big pond.

Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.

You can hover in the air if you want, or you can push off of something and glide through the air - just like a fish. I also think it is like being a fish, since you can catch food in your mouth easily because it is suspended in the air - just like when you put fish food in a tank - the fish swim up to it, open their mouths, and eat the food.

Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?

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

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

I still do a weekly opinion column for the Miami Herald, and it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Rotten fish.

A loach can't emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won't rise.

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

Only the gamefish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down.

You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it.

The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.