Goldfish famous quotes

There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.
-- Beryl Markham

#Fun #Age #Goldfish

Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.
-- Edward V. Long

#Naked #Goldfish #Privacy

In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more.
-- Emily Watson

#Careers #Rejection #Goldfish

Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.
-- Han Suyin

#Flower #Moving #Goldfish

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
-- Henri Matisse

#Art #Mind #Goldfish

If beer got any lighter you could raise goldfish in it.
-- Jerry Adler

#Beer #Modern Life #Goldfish

Starlets were always turning up dead in people's pools. They fished them out like goldfish. Nobody seemed to find it unusual that so many young, beautiful women wanted to die.
-- Jonathan Rosen

#Beautiful #People #Goldfish

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.
-- Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#Goldfish

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.
-- Lefty Gomez

#Tired #Pet #Goldfish

Life isn’t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)
-- Mark Billingham

#Winning #Blood #Goldfish

I've watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I've seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis. And I had a golden retriever behave like one.
-- N.D. Wilson

#Baby #Goldfish #Golden

I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.
-- Paul Rudd

#Thinking #Pet #Goldfish

I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.
-- Paula Fox

#Self Esteem #Goldfish

When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one. I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.
-- Princess Margaret

#Growing Up #Goldfish #Privacy

I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.
-- Princess Margaret

#Goldfish #Privacy

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup-they all die. So do we.
-- Robert Fulghum

#Death #White #Goldfish

I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.
-- Robert Plant

#Goldfish #Had A Great Time

Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond!
-- Sark

#Eels #Ponds #Goldfish

Life isn’t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)
-- Mark Billingham

#Winning #Blood #Goldfish