If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

- Dave Barry

I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.

- Carly Schroeder

If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.

- Carl Safina

One of the cries from the people was, don't forget us. They have a long road ahead of them. Operation Blessing has found those little fishing towns. They will not be getting what other towns are getting from the government.

- Connie Sellecca

Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.

- Clark Gable

I worked on a farm. Played ball and loafed along the fishing and swimming holes of the White River, and my boyhood was not a lot different from that of other youngsters.

- Chuck Klein

I was an only child of a father who loved me deeply, but we didn't play catch, even though I was an athlete. We didn't go fishing or hunting or any of the things I wanted to do. Why not? He just didn't do that.

- Charlie Rose

When I was very young - around the age of nine - my family used to go to a house in Somerset that my stepfather rented every summer. There was fishing, lakes and riding.

- Christopher Lee

Nothing is worse than a beautiful girl fishing for compliments by saying how gross she is. On the flip side, I find genuine humility and modesty attractive.

- Chris Evans

Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.

- Andrew Stanton

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

My main aim is getting set up so that when I do quit, I can step away and re-evaluate what I want to do in life. Do I want to get to 50 years old and come back? Or will I just want to go home and be fishing, hunting and working around the house?

- Boo Weekley

I like golf, hiking, camping, boating and fishing.

- Bryan Clay

Come September, the middle of September when the first frost comes, that's hunting season. Fishing poles are hung up and the hunting season starts. You've got to be careful, if you're a hunter, that it doesn't become an obsession.

- Bud Grant

I love fishing, any kind of fishing.

- Brandi Carlile

Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.

- Brandi Carlile

The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy.

- Bobby Jindal

If you lived next door to me and didn't know what I did, you wouldn't know I was a celebrity. I don't have that lifestyle, nor do I want that lifestyle. I want to know that I can have a separate life with my wife and my kids and just be normal and go camping and fishing and outdoor stuff.

- Bill Engvall

I was a typical American boy. I did a lot of outdoor activities, played a lot outside with my friends, loved to go the beach, liked to hike, boating and fishing, and I flew a lot of model airplanes as well.

- Alan G. Poindexter