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  • The sardines had their heads on and they were like watching you.

  • I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine.

    Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1966). “The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus”
  • Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

    1960 Beyond the Fringe.
  • So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

    Life   Sea   Want  
    Song: Oh For The Life Of A Sardine
  • Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with a noice like a wet kiss, and vanished instantly. With that instinct which prompts one, when depressed, to wallow in every circumstance of gloom, Peter leaned sadly against the hurdles and abandoned himself to a variety of shallow considerations upon (1) The vanity of human wishes; (2) Mutability; (3) First love; (4) The decay of idealism; (5) The aftermath of the Great war; (6) Birth-control; and (7) The fallacy of free-will.

  • a fortress against ideas and against the Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.

    Men   Ideas   Crumbling  
    Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.44, Faber & Faber
  • I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.

  • Doing 20 minutes of stretching, light weights and floor exercises three times a week takes the same amount of time as a long coffee break - and eating a tuna fish salad, sardines on toast or scrambled eggs is surely preferable to a Big Mac or KFC.

  • It's hard to ravish a tin of sardines.

    Tin   Sardines   Hard  
  • Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.

    Life   Keys   Sardines  
  • I`m kind of like one of those people that picks up small and interesting bits of wood and doesn`t want to let go of them. Or, you know, I`m fascinated with the wrapper on a sardine can. A little cuckoo.

  • Once Mo had closed the gates, he returned to his little stone hut, and his half-eaten sandwich of butter and canned sardines, and his mug of thick hot chocolate, which every night he poured carefully into a thermos labeled COFFEE.

    Lauren Oliver (2011). “Liesl & Po”, p.41, Hachette UK
  • Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

    Song: Style
  • Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.

    Funny   Food   Lobster  
  • There's gonna be all the twists and turns you would expect and twists and turns you did not expect. The finale is probably the most jam-packed episode there's ever been. Things are packed into it like sardines. All of the life is squeezed in there. They lengthened it to 90 minutes because there's just so much. It's a supersized monstrosity.

    Life   Twists   Jam  
    "'Walking Dead's' big finale: Six shows to watch this week" by Henry Hanks, www.cnn.com. March 28, 2015.
  • Gaza is such a tremendous humanitarian problem, it's way beyond Israel's capability to do anything significant about. It's a world problem, but the world doesn't want to do anything about it. That the world has packed them like sardines in a tiny piece of territory run by a fanatic Islamic group, run by a fanatic group like Hamas. Unless the world decides it wants to tackle this problem, that they want to deal with refugees there, prepare to absorb some of the refugees.

    Source: www.middleeasteye.net
  • I'm from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.

    "The Private World of Patti Smith". Interview with Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 30, 2015.
  • You wouldn't think such a place as San Francisco could exist. The wonderful sunlight there, the hills, the great bridges, the Pacific at your shoes. Beautiful Chinatown. Every race in the world. The sardine fleets sailing out. The little cable-cars whizzing down The City hills. And all the people are open and friendly.

  • IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The beheading of Louis the Sixteenth, the drums drowning his speech on the scaffold. Herman Melville at breakfast, feeling a sardine to his cat. Poe's wedding. Lewis Carroll's picnics. The Russians leaving Alaska, delighted with the deal. Shot of a seal applauding.

    Kings   Cat   Alaska  
  • On a boat cruising down east, sardines are scooped out of the holding seine at Eastport at dawn. 'Sardines' may be any of several species of fish; in Maine they are usually small herring. Fish are penned in nets until the boats are ready to load. The fish are taken a short distance to canneries which work round the clock, according to the time of the catch.

    Distance   Taken   Dawn  
  • When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Hard to call it a party without sardines.

    Party   Sardines   Hard  
    Brandon Mull (2014). “The Candy Shop War”, p.360, Simon and Schuster
  • I spotted a can in the corner whose red label read SADNESS. Was there so much of it they could can it and sell it? A bolt of pain went through my intestines before I realized that it was not SADNESS but SARDINES.

    Pain   Sadness   Labels  
    Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.73, Pan Macmillan
  • When I'm in the water I feel as though nothing bad has happened. I think about the fish, how they don't know what's going on. Their world is unchanged. Actually it's probably better now to be a tuna or a sardine or a salmon. Less chance of ending up as somebody's lunch.

    Thinking   Lunch   Water  
    Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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