Anne Carson Quotes

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

The ocean is 90% unexplored. It's a great canvas to paint Aquaman stories across, just like Green Lantern has space. It's more organic, which makes it different and interesting. It's alien, but it's terrestrial.

Most whale photos you see show whales in this beautiful blue water - it's almost like space.

There are some beautiful creatures in the ocean that seem very alien at the same time.

Everybody's got some fascination with undersea life, don't you think?

Will you walk a little faster? said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail! See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance: They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance?

And the new day was a great big fish.

No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.

My hovercraft is full of eels.

Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching.

They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.

I just like The Little Mermaid cartoon. Say what you want. I have a fish tank, it's a long story. I have a fascination with the ocean, and you put a hot chick in there, it just adds more to it! I liked The Little Mermaid. It's a cool movie. It's one of those I watch over and over again.

Fish are not the best authority on water.

So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.

I imagine that fish have no word for water.

There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoever I go.

Fishes do not roar; they cannot express any sound of suffering; and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer, more than it is convenient for him to fancy. Now it is a poor sport that depends for its existence on the want of a voice in the sufferer, and of imagination in the sportsman.

The Giant Ocean Tank, with its 52 large viewing windows, is the main attraction here. Myrtle, a giant green sea turtle, is one of the tank's most popular animals, along with sharks, rays and more than 100 other species. The Aquarium Medical Center is a working animal hospital exhibit that allows visitors to observe veterinarians examining and treating sea creatures.

Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures.

The fish will be the last to discover water.

I wanted to be an oceanographer, actually. It's a way of going underwater. I've always been interested in how deep it was, you know.