Eels Quotes

Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style. (Alain de Botton)
Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes. View quote
Robert Jordan
In this large and fierce world of ours, there are many, many unpleasant places to be. You can be in a river swarming with angry electric eels, or in a supermarket filled with vicious long-distance runners. You can be in a hotel that has no room service, or you can be lost in a forest that is slowly filling up with water. You can be in a hornet's nest or in an abandoned airport or the office of a pediatric surgeon, but one of the most unpleasant things that can happen is to find yourself in a quandary. View quote
Daniel Handler
Electric eels I might add do it, Though it shocks 'em I know... View quote
Cole Porter
You are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot. View quote
Douglas Adams
Sausage-Seller: You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus) View quote
Aristophanes
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature [of d'Holbach] - after the recipe for making eels from flour - is the audacity with which it decides that there is no God, without even having tried to prove the impossibility. View quote
Voltaire
It is very strange that men should deny a creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels. View quote
Voltaire
I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets. View quote
Tracy Morgan
The poet, absorbed in the solving of formal problems, the struggle with slippery eels of language, has no time for dissimulation and he tells us more about himself than he knows. View quote
Vernon Scannell
[On a fabricated tabloid story]The Neptunian underworld king unleashed a barrage of eels from his abdomen and each of the eels was carrying a zippo lighter and as they flew by they spelt across the sky in fire 'Tara can a borrow your eyeliner please? (Russell Brand)
Well that wraps up another episode, let me tell ya, balls are good and eels are delicious and I'm sitting here with two hot ass bitches, I'll see ya next week if my name is Norm. View quote
Brandon DiCamillo