Bill James
Related ANN LANDERS Our fly fishing show is different than most because it is all hands-on. If you want to tie flies we ... ALLEN FORSHAGE TOM DOUGLAS GEORGE HERBERT GEORGE HERBERT GEORGE HERBERT JIM SLINSKY The trout are fine. If you?re going to eat other resident fish, you should follow the guidelines for... DAVE STONE I have no complaints about the weather and I suppose I should say something about it not mattering i... BRANDON SCHOLZ C. JOYBELL C. ADAM GRANT TOM DOUGLAS How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Taking simple, yet specific materials, and tying them into something intentional...then presenting t... NATHAN S THOMPSON They offer leaves to water which provides the food for insects which feed the fish we love to catch.... ROBERT TIEDEMANN They say that to catch brown trout you have to be near invisible. I tried that on the Cimarron in 19... JIMMY D. MOORE [This has become a problem for some western trout species in areas where rainbow trout have been int... JIM WILLIAMS STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY I've swallowed fish-eyes wholeYANN ROUSSELOT JOSEPH MONNINGER JOSEPH MONNINGER C. JOYBELL C. CHLOE THURLOW A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY SAM HARRIS They are putting a lot more trout in there and this is feeding the bass. The ones I'm seeing now are... MIKE LONG Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental ... MATT CHANDLER More people are discovering the many therapeutic health benefits associated with aquarium fish, ... ... BOB VETERE It's a better use of our resources to inform consumers what to do about fish than spending money and... DAVID ACHESON There is no such thing as a phenomenal, because a gold fish lives in a pond, where Wi-Fi or internet... YAMIN RASHEED He (Cox) got this thing going and we're excited about the opportunities it will allow our people to ... GREG CLARK NICHOLAS SPARKS STEPHEN CHBOSKY NICHOLAS SPARKS NICHOLAS SPARKS HARPER LEE HARPER LEE HENRY JAMES SALLY BERGER Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM E.M. FORSTER I go to Alaska and fish salmon. I do some halibut fishing, lake fishing, trout fishing, fly fishing.... LINDA HAMILTON His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING We know that our bull trout use the upper portion of the watershed. It's critical habitat, and the h... CLINT MUHLFELD It's more important to be realistic than to be nice. by Tracey Trout DONALD LYNN FROST The expectation is that there will be more fish available. Typically, the (stocked) brook trout are ... FRANCIS BRAUTIGAM The way you're going to catch the fish in this area is with long casts. You can't run in on the fish... SCOTT GUTHRIE The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE ROBERT HUGHES HENRY DAVID THOREAU WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) SAMUEL BUTLER (1) WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Where the pools are bright and deep
Where the gray trout lies asleep,
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If you want to catch a trout, don't fish in a herring barrel 
Salsa verde is delicious with trout or most any fish. 
You must loose a flie to catch a trout.
[You must lose a fly to catch a trout.] 
You must lose a fly to catch a trout. 
To my purist trout fishing friends, bass are lowly green fish and brown fish. To me, bass are ben... 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
The main principles for trout fishing are food and cover. If fish can get under the (ice) shelf and ... 
My favorite way to cook trout is whole, bone-in, on the grill. The fish are stuffed with sliced lemo... 
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... 
I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... 
We Are All Infinite 
I usually fish a Hornberg or a Muddler Minnow, a deer-haired streamer that comes in a variety of siz... 
When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward. 
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... 
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. 
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... 
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... 
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. 
You never saw a fish on the wall with its mouth shut 
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. 
A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifix... 
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a
trout in the milk. 
Groping for trouts in a peculiar river. 
There's no taking trout with dry breeches. 
For trouts are tickled best in muddy water. 
If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks. 
If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks. 
To be able to serve and to eat a whole fish, especially a trout, is part of civilized dining. This a... 
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful busine... 
Venture a small fish to catch a great one 
A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts. 
To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside t... 
To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish 
Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. 
We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Our civilization is characterized by the word progress. Progress is its form rather than making prog... 
Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you kno... 
No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between fri... 
When birds burp, it must taste like bugs. 
Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems. 
We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks. 
Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell. 
Keep your word. Honor commitments, and they will double back to honor you. 
Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But i... 
Go empower yourself. You need confidence because the one thing that bullying does is it belittles yo... 
I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or e... 
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing. 
If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them an... 
I'm not going out and hitting a 95-mph fastball where I can't see the stitches. I'm not ... 
Anytime I get down to Miami, it's a wonderful thing. 
If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you'... 
I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, b... 
A buddy will keep you honest and add a dimension of fun to your workout. 
One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are... 
I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years ol... 
People in the West like to shoot things. When they first got to the West they shot buffalo. Once the... 
I remember being unbelievable bummed when 'Freaks and Geeks' was canceled. 
I have an addiction to caffeine. 