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Tag Name "Fishing" (516)

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It's like fishing -- you got to get that first one in the boat. Once you get that first one, the skunk is off the boat and everything's cool from then on. You've got to get that first one. Once he gets the first one, I know he'll be fine.
Dusty Baker
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I didn't grow up in the ocean -- as a matter of fact -- near the ocean -- I grew up in the desert. Therefore, it was a pleasant contrast to see the ocean. And I particularly like it when I'm fishing.
George W. Bush
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The fishermen say that the thundering of the pond scares the fishes and prevents their biting.
Henry David Thoreau
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God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He's even put a 'No Fishing' sign over the spot.
Dwight L. Moody
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An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.
Thomas McGuane
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For the true angler, fishing produces a deep,unspoken joy, born of longing for that which is quiet and peaceful, and fostered by an inbred love of communing with nature
Thaddeus Norris
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What is the politically correct term for 'retarded'?I think the words you're fishing for are 'mentally disabled.' And no. I'm not mentally disabled.
Rachel Gibson
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Cool! Now I can steal some rich old coot's Ferrari and go fishing for marlin with the same piece of jewelry.
Jennifer Rardin
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No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.
Izaak Walton
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The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells
Ed Zern
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What I do is called 'fishing.' If it was easy, we would refer to it as 'catching,' and there would be a lot more people doing it.
Linda Greenlaw
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Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.
Jim Harrison
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There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.
Tom Felton
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I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.
Henry David Thoreau
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There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.
Mark Twain
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the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.
Mary Stewart
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Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The river moves from land to water to land, in and out of organisms, reminding us what native peoples have never forgotten: that you cannot separate the land from the water, or the people from the land.
Lynn Culbreath Noel
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Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
Izaak Walton
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Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick out the best parts.
Charles W. Waterman
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We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches,--at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene their sunny lives onthe sand, amid the beach-grass and bayberries, their companion a cow, their wealth a jag of driftwood or a few beach plums, and their music the surf and the peep of the beech-bird.
Henry David Thoreau
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As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
Izaak Walton
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One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
Wade Boggs
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Promising to bring home a feed of fish is the absolute kiss of death to any chances of catching anything but a large heap of derision when you get home.
Tony Bishop
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