A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.
I grew up a Phillies fan. Me and my buddies tailgated a couple of times when they won the World Series. I like just being in that atmosphere.
I shall now confess to you that none of those three trout had to be beheaded, or folded double, to fit their casket. What was big was not the trout, but the chance. What was full was not my creel, but my memory.
Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.
A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.
There was a code, and though it was mostly unspoken, I absorbed it early on. You always put all the trout back in the water alive except for a few to eat. You didn't count your trout or call attention to their size or weight. You took time to watch and enjoy seeing your partners catch trout.
My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.
If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting and I like watching him.
Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.
The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art.
A trout fisherman is something that defieth understanding.
There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
. . I tell you Dain is a splendid catch. I advise you to set your hooks and reel him in. ” Jessica took a long swallow of her cognac. “This is not a trout, Genevieve. This is a great, hungry shark. ” “Then use a harpoon.
As a child of eight Mr. Trout had once kissed a girl of six under the mistletoe at a Christmas party, but there his sex life had come to abrupt halt.
The day should come when all of the forms of life. . . will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.
. . . water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.
What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river.
I can't tell if you're serious or not,' said the driver. I won't know myself until I find out if life is serious or not,' said Trout. 'It's dangerous, I know, and it can hurt a lot. That doesn't necessarily mean it's serious, too.