Fisherman Quotes

“My brother William is a fisherman, and he tells me that when he is in the middle of a fogboundsea the water is a color for which there is no name.”

“The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.It is the night sea journey, the lone fisherman on a tropical sea with his nets, and you let these nets down - sometimes, something tears through them that leaves them in shreds and you just row for shore, and put your head under your bed and pray. At other times what slips through are the minutiae, the minnows of this ichthyological metaphor of idea chasing.But, sometimes, you can actually bring home something that is food, food for the human community that we can sustain ourselves on and go forward.”

“The earliest fisherman catches the fattest fish.”

“My dad, he was a construction worker. He was a butcher. He was a deep sea fisherman.”

“Fisherman looks for the fish in the middle of a mysterious misty lake”

“the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water”

“I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination”

“… the fisherman’s daughter grinding serenity in her coffee grinder.”

“The fish,Even in the fisherman's net,Still carries,The smell of the sea.”

“In cross-examination as in fishing nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.”