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  • The meditative angler is not exempt from sensational periods. There are times when all the uncertainty of his chosen pursuit seems to condense itself into one big chance, and stand out before him like a salmon on the top wave of a rapid. He sees his luck hangs by a single strand of gut, and he cannot tell whether it will hold or break. This is the thrilling moment and he never forgets it.

    Sea   Fishing   Rivers  
    Henry Van Dyke (2015). “Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things”, p.23, Read Books Ltd
  • I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound perch in my lake.

    Lakes   Dumb   Bass  
    "Big fish gave Bush biggest thrill", news.bbc.co.uk. May 7, 2006.
  • The life of the wood, meadow, and lake go on without us. Flowers bloom, set seed and die back; squirrels hide nuts in the fall and scold all year long; bobcats track the snowy lake in winter; deer browse the willow shoots in spring. Humans are but intruders who have presumed the right to be observers, and who, out of observation, find understanding.

    Nature   Spring   Flower  
    Ann Zwinger (1970). “Beyond the Aspen Grove”, p.9, Big Earth Publishing
  • For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which, as she neared them, grew larger and larger in her arms, until it became a whole life, a complete life, which she put down by them and said, "This is what I have made of it! This!" And what had she made of it? What, indeed?

    Children   Lakes   Ducks  
    Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.878, Delphi Classics
  • Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.

    Lakes   Swans   Black  
  • We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish.

  • I’ve always liked the feeling of traveling light; there is something in me that wants to feel I could leave wherever I am, at any time, without any effort. The idea of being weighed down made me uneasy, as if I lived on the surface of a frozen lake and each new trapping of domestic life - a pot, a chair, a lamp - threatened to be the thing that sent me through the ice.

    Lakes   Light   Ice  
  • The skin is no more separated from the brain than the surface of a lake is separate from its depths; the two are different locations in a continuous medium...The brain is a single functional unit, from cortex to fingertips to toes. To touch the surface is to stir the depths.

    Two   Lakes   Brain  
  • They were dancing around the fountain, arm in arm, in an old Dutch dance, their cheeks touching, their hands entwined. They had no music; they hummed. And there was no reason for them to be dancing that Peter Lake could see, except that it was an exceptionally beautiful night.

    Beautiful   Night   Lakes  
    Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.

    Change   Lakes   People  
    President Barack Obama's remarks on the Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality at the White House Rose Garden, Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 26, 2015.
  • At Jaffa in Syria and among the Nomads in Arabia, are lakes of enormous size that yield very large masses of asphalt, which are carried off by the inhabitants thereabouts.

    Lakes   Yield   Arabia  
    "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book VII, Chapter III, Section 8), circa 15 BC.
  • Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

    Lakes   Sea   Fishing  
    Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.743, Library of America
  • I hear voices. A shout. A laugh. Clay's laugh. I strained to see through the night. Fog had rolled in from Lake Ontario, but I could hear him laughing. The concrete turned to grass. The fog wasn't from the lake, but from a pond. Our pond. I was at Stonehaven, bounding through the back acres. Clay was running ahead of me.

    Running   Night   Lakes  
    Kelley Armstrong (2012). “Werewolves: Book One: Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings”, p.506, Vintage Canada
  • Money doesn't grow on trees but it does hang out in lakes

    Lakes   Tree   Doe  
  • Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.

    Christian   Jesus   Peace  
    John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.116, Harper Collins
  • Time flies so fast after youth is past that we cannot accomplish one half the many things we have in mind or indeed one half our duties. The only safe and sensible plan is to make other things give way to the essentials, and the first of these is fly fishing.

    Past   Sea   Fishing  
    Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”
  • During the warm season (August 8 and 9), Maine is a true vacation paradise, offering visitors a chance to jump into crystal-clear mountain lakes and see if they can get back out again before their bodily tissue is frozen as solid as a supermarket turkey.

    Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.80, Ballantine Books
  • Fishing, by its very nature, nourishes the imagination, feeding it with a potent fuel of hope and desire.

    Rivers   Lakes   Sea  
  • To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.

    Regret   Lakes   Sea  
  • The fly angler who says they have never, ever fallen while wading , is either a pathogenic liar, or has never been fly-fishing.

    Liars   Rivers   Lakes  
  • A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream among the rocks

    Men   Thinking   Lakes  
  • When the going is good and the putts are dropping, you love your putter. When it's going bad, it's like it has betrayed you and you want to throw the sucker in a lake.

    Love You   Golf   Lakes  
  • Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

    Lakes   Sea   Fishing  
    Wendell Berry (2004). “Citizenship Papers: Essays”, p.157, Counterpoint Press
  • Doing that, then doing a lot of theater, which I love. Doing guest stars, did two independent films that are going around to all these festivals. Both of them are going to be at the Lake Tahoe Film Festival.

  • I want to help others 'think first' before diving into a pool or lake to prevent these types of life-changing accidents. I know I'm in a very fortunate minority and hope my story inspires both adults and children to be more careful.

  • I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.

    Summer   Spring   Lakes  
    Calamity Jane (2013). “The Life And Adventures Of Calamity Jane: A Short Memoir”, p.5, Harper Collins
  • It didn't matter that there were actually two lakes there, ... It didn't matter that he had only $300 in his pocket. He had the gall, or the zeal, to call it not a school, or a college, but a university.

    School   College   Lakes  
  • If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg.

    Conceited   Lakes   Sea  
    Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”
  • There are two distinct visits to tackle-shops, the visit to buy tackle and the visit which may be described as Platonic when, being for some reason unable to fish, we look for an excuse to go in, and waste the tackle dealer's time.

    Sea   Fishing   Two  
  • And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.

    Sweet   Thinking   Lakes  
    C.S. Lewis (1996). “Out of the Silent Planet”, p.76, Simon and Schuster
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