Eels Quotes

Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.

I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond!

Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.

Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!" "No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?" "Not such a waste of time as talking to you!

I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.

It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels.

I have the backbone of an eel.

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.

[W]hat have we done with our forests? Chopped them, and burned them, and wasted them; and now almost the last of the great stands of timber are here on the Pacific slope. We are in the center of the best of them. Probably nowhere on earth does there exist a forest to compare in continuous grandeur and unqualified beauty with the Redwoods that are found along the Eel River and to the north.

Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.

They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.

My hovercraft is full of eels.

Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.

Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell

I gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan.

I eat cold eels and think distant thoughts.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature - after the recipe for making eels from flour - is the audacity with which it decides that there is no God, without even having tried the impossibility. If God did not exist, he would have to be invented." But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.

If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

I have a name,” I grumped, my stomach pinching me harder. “Yes, but it has no pizzazz. Ra-a-a-a-chel. Rach-e-e-e-eel,” he said, trying it out in different ways. “No one will tremble in terror at that. Oh my God!” he said in a high falsetto. “It’s Rachel! Run! Hide!

The apartments are made for eels.

Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.