Quotes by Lakes A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway. Jim Bishop balls lakes golf The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering. Jim Harrison lakes inspirational travel It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close if you wanted. Perhaps it's standing thigh deep in a river with the water passing at the exact but varying speed of life. You easily recognize this mortality and it dissipates into the landscape. Jim Harrison fishing sea lakes Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls. Jim Harrison fishing sea lakes I truly believe fishing is like a washing machine for your brain Henry Winkler sea lakes believe Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime Jimmy Cannon fishing sea lakes The fly angler who says they have never, ever fallen while wading , is either a pathogenic liar, or has never been fly-fishing. Jimmy Moore lakes liars rivers Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy. Jimmy Carter sea lakes memorable My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint. Joan Mitchell lakes feelings water I remember watching Swan Lake and everybody looking exactly the same, but being able to relate because they were the only company I had ever seen even on video that had Asian dancers. The Asian community in Hawaii is actually almost as dominant as the Caucasian community. I thought "I can relate to that company because they look like people that I see every day." They weren't all little stick-thin Russian ballerinas. Joan Chen swans lakes people IT was the time of day when Lake Eden residents decided it was too late for a breakfast cookie and too early for a lunch cookie. Joanne Fluke lunch eden lakes Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One is perfect. Joe Brooks fishing sea lakes I find those wind turbines around Lake George to be utterly offensive. I think they're just a blight on the landscape. Joe Hockey lakes wind thinking And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel bright./ Up through the waters of the stream/ An instant visible to sight/ As lightning cleaves to sombre sky/ A rainbow rises to the fly. John Buchan sight lakes fall Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife. John D. Voelker fishing sea lakes Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness. John D. Voelker loneliness lakes rivers ...buying a fly rod in the average city store, that is, joining it up and safely waggling it a bit, is much like seeing a woman's arm protruding from a car window: all one can readily be sure of is that the window is open. John D. Voelker lakes rivers average To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing. John D. Voelker regret sea lakes The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas. John D. Voelker lakes rivers children We don't tend to ask where a lake comes from. It lies before us, contained and complete, tantalizing in its depth but not its origin. A river is a different kind of mystery, a mystery of distance and becoming, a mystery of source. Touch its fluent body and you touch far places. You touch a story that must end somewhere but cannot stop telling itself, a story that is always just beginning. John Daniel distance lakes lying «1314151617181920212223»