“I mangle phrases constantly. The other day I was chatting with my boyfriend and I said to him, 'He really sold him under the bus.' And he said, 'I think you meant 'threw him under the bus,' or 'sold him up the river.” ThinkingSaidRiversPhrasesBusMy BoyfriendChatting Author:Cristin Milioti
“Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.” IfsSaidWould BeSpeakLanguageRiversGoldDialoguePlatoJupiterPlato S Book:Plutarch's Lives Source: Plutarch's Lives
“"I smell fennel," Launcelot said. "That reminds me, I should tell you I have discovered a specific for maims. You take salt, good-quality river mud, and bee urine, and slather it on the maim and hold it there for two days. Works like a charm. Gathering the bee urine is a bit of a bore."” ShouldSaidTwoBitsQualityRiversSmellCharmSaltBeesBoresMudGatheringTwo DaysGood Quality Author:Donald Barthelme
“Out of the east on an Irish stallion came bounty hunter Dan His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river, pulled his gun and got the drop He said, "Pete, you think you've changed, but you have not.” ThinkingMenNeedsHeartSaidFoundChangedGunRiversEastFishingHuntersBountyStallionsYou've ChangedBounty Hunter Author:Bruce Springsteen
“Today she met me at the door, said I would have to choose, if I picked up that fishing rod today, she'd be packing all her things and she'd be gone by noon....well I'm gonna miss her when I get home tonight.” IfsWellsSaidHomeTodayGoneDoorsSeaMissingMetsRiversFishesBoatLakesTonightFishingNoonPacking Author:Brad Paisley
“Then do you mean that I have got to go on catching these damned two-and-a-half pounders at this corner forever and ever? The keeper nodded. Hell! said Mr. Castwell. Yes , said his keeper.” MeanSaidTwoHalfHellForeverSeaGoes OnRiversFishesCornersBoatLakesFishingCatchingKeepers Author:G. E. M. Skues
“From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.” ArtSaidWholeNamesWaterBornLinesChancePoorBoysSeaDyingFieldsRiversLaysLipsCaughtFishesBoatStreamsLakesFishingSwimShoreEstatesHookInheritancePreyMy BoysPasturesOxen Author:Ovid
“How can you need so many rods and reels to catch a fish? , she asked, her lips pulled into that weaned on a gherkin look, as she watched me prepare for a fishing trip. Probably for much the same reason that you seem to need 30 pairs of shoes for one pair of feet, I nearly said, but decided to live for another day.” NeedsLooksSaidReasonSeemsSeaFeetRiversDecidedShoesLipsFishesBoatLakesFishingPairsAnother DayPair Of Shoes Author:Tony Bishop
“When the word began to get out, the idea of tying imitations of aquatic worms was not met with universal approval in the fly-fishing community. It seems that worms had somehow gotten a bad name. I think a fishing pal of mine hit it on the head when he said, It just pisses them off that you can catch trout, I mean really big trout, on a fly that a five-year old can tie in twenty seconds!” ThinkingYearsMeanSaidIdeasBigsSeemsNamesCommunityFiveSeaMinesMetsRiversUniversalTwentiesFishesBoatTiesFive YearsLakesFishingSecondsApprovalImitationWormsTroutFive Year OldsFly FishingPals Book:Fly Fishing the Tailwaters Source: Fly Fishing the Tailwaters
“I told a lie the other day. I said that I'd caught a 'bunch' of trout. What I should have said is that I caught a little trout that I named Bunch. There, I?ve confessed and now I feel much better.” FeelsShouldLittlesSaidLyingSeaRiversShould HaveCaughtFishesBunchBoatLakesFishingTrout Author:Jimmy Moore
“So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count each fish that he caught as ten, and to assume ten to begin with. For example, if he did not catch any fish at all, then he said he had caught ten fish - you could never catch less than ten fish by his system; that was the foundation of it. Then, if by any chance he really did catch one fish, he called it twenty, while two fish would count thirty, three forty, and so on.” IfsMadeSaidTwoThreeChanceSeaExampleTenRiversTwentiesFoundationAssumingFinalsCaughtFishesBoatThirtyLakesFishingFortyArrangements Book:Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog Source: Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog
“It would be a miracle of God if it happened. I know it... If God wills it, the summer rains will fill the wadis... and the salmon will run the river. And then my countrymen... all classes and manner of men-will stand side by side and fish for the salmon. And their natures, too, will be changed. They will feel the enchantment of this silver fish... and then when talk turns to what this tribe said or that tribe did... then someone will say, Let us arise, and go fishing.” IfsKnowsMenFeelsSaidWould BeRunningTurnsSidesClassHappenedSeaChangedSummerRainRiversMiracleFishesAriseGods WillBoatLakesFishingSilverTribesEnchantmentCountrymenSalmonSummer RainMiracles Of God Author:Paul Torday