Fishhouses Quotes & Sayings

A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are. — J. William Fulbright

The shit is *not* the shit (this was Mo's mantra,) the *pigeon* is the shit. — Zadie Smith

Simple statements are to be prized more highly than less simple ones because they tell us more; because their empirical content is greater; and because they are better testable. — Karl Popper

Still, I will protect Annie. She is the only person in the world who loves me. She is the only person in the world who would never use me. She is my anchor, the chain around my ankle, the thing that means it doesn't matter what James does or who he is - I will still be his because I will always be Annie's. — Kiersten White

You learn from everything. — Reece Thompson

One of the reasons why I, 'a medical man' decided to give up medicine was a firm conviction of the extraordinary influence on health of pleasurable excitement, especially when combined with fresh air and exercise. How frequently have I, with great difficulty, persuaded patients who were never off my doorsteps to take up golf, and how rarely, if ever, I have seen them in my consulting room again. — Alister MacKenzie

Pardon's the word to all. — William Shakespeare

Bishop on "At the Fishhouses"
At the last minute, after I'd had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton, I found
I'd said codfish scales once when it should have been herring scales. I hope they
corrected it all right.
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Quite a few lines of "At the Fishhouses" came to me in a dream, and the scene - which
was real enough, I'd recently been there - but the old man and the conversation, etc.,
were all in a later dream — Elizabeth Bishop

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. — Mahatma Gandhi

I don't know of anything better than a woman if you want to spend money where it will show. — Kin Hubbard