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Dead Fish Quotes

You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.
- Kinky Friedman

If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.
- Linda Ellerbee

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
- W C Fields

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
- Jim Hightower

You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick
- Robin Hobb

I think it would be funny to dye somebody's pool red and then throw dead fish in it. And before you run out of there, you could leave a stone tablet with these words etched in: God is angry with you and has decided to go all Egypt on you.
- Jarod Kintz

How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.
- Maxine Hong Kingston

In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving its own mother, a few household implements, and a dead fish.
- Mercedes Lackey

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.
- Marie Laurencin

Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish alive; a number of subtle explanations were offered to him. He then pointed out that it does not.
- Alasdair C Macintyre

Never forget," a Stranger said to me once in the lobby of the Midland Hotel in Manchester, "that only dead fish swim with the stream.
- Malcolm Muggeridge

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
- Malcolm Muggeridge

With passion pray.
With passion make love.
With passion eat and drink and dance and play.
Why look like a dead fish
in this ocean of God?
- Rumi

I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.
- John Sayles

We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.
- Gene Ween

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.
- Scott Weiland

No," I shout, because my mother doesn't know what I like anymore. "I don't eat things that bleed. Just cheese with lettuce or tomato and mayo. No dead fish or animals, please."
"You see what I have to put up with?" my mother says.
- Laura Wiess

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