Fish Quotes

I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

I think it is important to do what you believe in and ignore the critics.

For me, painting is like meditation.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history.

Just as you can practice three-word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe unshakable conviction.

I had this attitude that it was going to take time for my work to grow. I had to develop skills to do what I wanted and I didn't really expect it was going to happen rapidly.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

You’re not necessarily supposed to believe it…You’re just supposed to believe in it.

There are a lot of tricks you have to keep playing on yourself to keep at it because every time you hit a problem you want to walk away.

For a long time, I kept working at part-time jobs... my goal was to build up enough savings so I wouldn't be kicked out on the streets if I didn't sell enough paintings.

You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

Never trust a second thought. Where there is two there is three. You will end up thinking forever.

The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'

I box in yellow Gox box socks.

Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.

Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rung the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way... well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isn't!

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.

Reports of a hurricane are unfounded.

It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.

Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors.

People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired effect has been achieved.

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.

And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways, and the Night, and the trail of the Milky Way to wonder at.

Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

A pro-choice advocate sees abortion as a decision to be made in accordance with the best scientific opinion as to when the beginning of life, as we know it, occurs.

I'm nothing if not redundant! I also repeat myself.

Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh.

If I never had any mental health issues, there's no doubt in my mind I'd still be playing.

It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?

The jet stream is the controlling influence over the world's weather systems.

The category of first sentence makes sense only if it is looking forward to the development of thematic concerns it perhaps only dimly foreshadows.

Never trust second thoughts. Next thing you know there'll be a third and a fourth...you'll be thinking forever!

Love is an equation, a me and a you derives a we.

No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!

This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be the perfect time to disembark.

God's Final Message to His Creation:'We apologize for the inconvenience.

Everybody is a genius but if you judge a fish by its able to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.

life is awesome

I had thus learned to push down my feelings, to force myself to not care, to do nothing and let things happen, come what may.

I can't afford to say yes to all my staff's desires, but one thing is certain – I can't afford the outrageous cost of not listening to their requests.