Piscatory Quotes & Sayings

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean? — Amy Adams

The air among the houses was of so strong a piscatory flavour that one might have supposed sick fish went up to be dipped in it, as sick people went down to be dipped in the sea. — Charles Dickens

I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible to the feeling that inspired it. That's my only concern. Everything else seems wrong. — Adelia Prado

I don't know what else to say."
"There is nothing else to say. A few minutes of words can't change years of absurdity. — Cameron Trost

If you can fake sincerity, you've got it made. — Neil Gaiman

I mean, I think it's hard enough to find somebody you can stand for more than ten minutes, so, like, you shouldn't narrow your options. — Ani DiFranco

The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you're not good enough. On occasion, some may be correct. But do not do their work for them. Seek any job; ask anyone out; pursue any goal. Don't take it personally when they say 'no' - they may not be smart enough to say 'yes. — Keith Olbermann

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them. — Pauline Kael

I have sometimes thought that all philosophical disputes could be reduced to an argument between the partisans of "prickles" and the partisans of "goo." The prickly people are tough-minded, rigorous, and precise, and like to stress differences and divisions between things. They prefer particles to waves, and discontinuity to continuity. The gooey people are tender-minded romanticists who love wide generalizations and grand syntheses. They stress the underlying unities, and are inclined to pantheism and mysticism. Waves suit them much better than particles as the ultimate constituents of matter, and discontinuities jar their teeth like a compressed-air drill. — Alan W. Watts