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  • There's a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and it gets sick, do you take it to the vet and amputate the fin? No, you clean the water. So, I cleaned up my system. By eating organic raw greens, nuts and healthy fats, I am flooding my body with enzymes, vitamins and oxygen.

    "Crazy, sexy...cancer?". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. July 31, 2007.
  • Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.

    Yellow   Lakes   Race  
    Alexander Pope (2008). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.128, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents; and what it invents is, first, the fabric and cadence of language, and then a slant of idea that sails out of these as a fin lifts from the sea.

    Sea   Ideas   Vacuums  
    Cynthia Ozick (2006). “The Din in the Head”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Fue adondo a mi me perdieron quw logre por fin encontrarme? Was it where they lost me that I finally found myself?

    Lost   Fins   Found  
  • The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds.

    Strong   Ego   Mind  
    Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.84, Vintage
  • ...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals.

    Children   Soul   Liberty  
    Gregory Maguire (2009). “Lost: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins
  • The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.

    Trust   Food   Lakes  
  • I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.'

    Mohsin Hamid (2015). “Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London”, p.61, Penguin
  • I'm trying to paint an underwater ocean scene. It's just not working. My queen angelfish is supposed to have these bright yellow eyes and electric-blue stripes along the edge of her fin. Instead, it looks like I'm trying to paint a fried egg with some blue bacon. Maybe I can pass it off as postmodern.

    Queens   Ocean   Eye  
    Susane Colasanti (2010). “Something Like Fate”, p.54, Penguin
  • Darius was clearly of the opinion That the air is also man's dominion, And that, with paddle or fins or pinion, We soon or late Shall navigate The azure, as now we sail the sea.

    Men   Air   Sea  
    "Darius Green and his Flying-Machine". Book by John Townsend Trowbridge, 1910.
  • I look forward to the day when animals will have the right to run if they have legs, swim if they have fins, and fly if they have wings.

    Running   Animal   Wings  
  • No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover. And then, in the midst of near despair, something has happened beneath the surface. A bright little flashing fish of hope has flicked silver fins and the water is bright and suddenly I am returned to a state of love again - till next time.

    Wedding   Hurt   Long  
    Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.51, Open Road Media
  • My set comes with a smaller fin in the back, i find this helps me release off the top a lot easier

  • You can't afford to make the shark look good so you do most of it with ominous music and a fin.

    Sharks   Looks   Fins  
    Source: www.denofgeek.com
  • Sometimes I wish I had every different sort of board that I could just bring out for this surf when I feeling like surfing this board. I love riding old single fins and twin fins.

    Feelings   Surfing   Wish  
  • Anything's possible in Human Nature," Chacko said in his Reading Aloud voice. Talking to the darkness now, suddenly insensitive to his little fountain-haired niece. "Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy." Of the four things that were Possible in Human Nature, Rahel thought that Infinnate Joy sounded the saddest. Perhaps because of the way Chacko said it. Infinnate Joy. With a church sound to it. Like a sad fish with fins all over.

    Niece   Reading   Voice  
    Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.118, Penguin Books India
  • We keep the negative stuff because it's the negative stuff that's going to, you know, potentially kill us. That fin in the water - maybe it is a shark. That yellow thing behind the tree - maybe it is a lion. You need to be scared.

    Sharks   Yellow   Water  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.

    "Divided Europeans: Understanding Ethnicities in Conflict". Book edited by Tim Allen and John Eade (p. 41), June 30, 1999.
  • Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and rais’d in Ocean’s pearly caves First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume; Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet and wing.

    Spring   Ocean   Moving  
  • I am really a sea creature. Just a mammal that lost its fins.

    Sea   Mammals   Lost  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.

    Book   Tails   Gone  
    "Habitations of the Word: Essays". Book by William H. Gass, www.nytimes.com. 1984.
  • The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.

    Aquariums   Violet   Ink  
    Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks
  • There's nothin like a trail of ßlooÐ to finÐ your way ßack home

    Home   Way   Fins  
  • He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments - negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right through to illness and death. Why did I speak of him in the past? He laughed, he is laughing, he is here. It's your sadness, idiot, he'd say.

  • This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.

    Echoes   Self   Sea  
    Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1446, Delphi Classics
  • It is the beginning of the end. [Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.]

    Als   Ends   Fins  
  • The layout was griping, the glide is awesome. Two ten-inch fins up, way up.

    Two   Surfing   Way  
  • De pronto no puedo decirte lo que yo te debo decir, hombre,perdóname; sabrás que aunque no escuches mis palabras no me eché a llorar ni a dormir y que contigo estoy sin verte desde hace tiempo y hasta el fin. I can't just suddenly tell you what I should be telling you, friend, forgive me; you know that although you don't hear my words, I wasn't asleep or in tears, that I am with you without seeing you for a good long time and until the end.

    Names   Long   Forgive Me  
  • Cats can derive their nutrition from the air they breathe until you get the message that the Fish Fin Buffet you put in their bowl three days ago will never be acceptable.

    Cat   Air   Three  
  • There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide.

    Ocean   Taken   Blue  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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