Fishing Metaphor Quotes

All is fish that comth to net.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what they don't understand - and I like to tell this to writers - is that writing is like fishing. It's just like fishing. If you don't fish that often, you're not going to catch that many fish.

We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows.

We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.

It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

Fishing... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.

It's kind of a lonely work, because you just have to keep your pole in the water. I always had a little routine of going into whatever room I was using at the time to write in and just staying in there till I felt like I got a bite.

The problem - when you cast your net that wide - is you inevitably catch something you don't want to catch.

There many guys out there who are actually fishing for a woman whom they are planning on keeping. But there are guys out there who are just sports fishing - catching them and then throwing them back into the ocean.

Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

Therefore, look only for this fishhook, and you will be happily caught. The more you are caught, the more you will be liberated.