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My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered. -- Alice Sebold
If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar. -- Harold Wilson
You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do. -- Loretta Lynn
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. -- W. H. Auden
Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest. -- Bruce Babbitt
There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another. -- Anthony Trollope
I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could. I don't need to be wrapped in herbs like a salmon fillet, but I do love a massage. -- Jason Bateman
I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace. -- Jean Paul Gaultier
I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream. -- Neil Armstrong
I'm a big fish eater. Salmon - I love salmon. My sister loves Chinese food and sushi and all that. I'm not as big of a fan, but she likes it so we eat it a lot. So I'm beginning to like it more. I don't like the raw sushi. I liked the cooked crab and lobster and everything. -- Elle Fanning
Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon. -- Patrick F. McManus
Pine nuts pound for pound are more expensive than most varieties of smoked salmon. There I said it. -- Dov Davidoff
Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can? -- Lee Wulff
Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea. -- Jeanette Winterson
When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3,000,000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother's Day. -- Sam Ewing
It's better to get the nutrients for healthy skin from food, not supplements. Salmon, walnuts, blueberries, spinach... lots of my favorite foods happen to be amazing for skin too. -- Gail Simmons
Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance. -- Louis Leakey
As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint. -- Jack Handey
It is never too late to go quietly to our lakes, rivers, oceans, even our small streams, and say to the sea gulls, the great blue herons, the bald eagles, the salmon, that we are sorry. -- Brenda Peterson
If the salmon and steelhead are running, then as far as I am concerned, God knows that all is well in His worldthe health of the environment is good if the salmon and steelhead are around. It is that simple. -- Tom McCall
All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be loved, to be accepted, cherished, and celebrated simply for being who we are. Is that so very difficult? -- Derrick Jensen
I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees and rain and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area. That all says Pacific Northwest to me. Salmon. It really only exists on the Western side of the Cascades. -- Kyle MacLachlan
Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth? -- Mark Bittman
A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
There is but one season of the year when salmon should be served hot at a choice repast; that is in the spring and early summer, and even then it is too satisfying, nut sufficiently delicate. The man who gives salmon during the winter, I care not what sauce he serves with it, does an injury to himself and his guests. -- Ward McAllister
New Rule: Gay marriage won't lead to dog marriage. It is not a slippery slope to rampant inter-species coupling. When women got the right to vote, it didn't lead to hamsters voting. No court has extended the equal protection clause to salmon. And for the record, all marriages are "same sex" marriages. You get married, and every night, it's the same sex. -- Bill Maher
Seafood is simply a socially acceptable form of bush meat. We condemn Africans for hunting monkeys and mammalian and bird species from the jungle yet the developed world thinks nothing of hauling in magnificent wild creatures like swordfish, tuna, halibut, shark, and salmon for our meals. The fact is that the global slaughter of marine wildlife is simply the largest massacre of wildlife on the planet. -- Paul Watson
You piss me off you Salmon... You're too expensive in restaurants. -- Eddie Izzard
I fell in love with you again; While you were away - Jack Salmon -- Alice Sebold
A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon -- Alice Sebold
Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream. -- David Nicholls
He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss stories. -Susie Salmon -- Alice Sebold
The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon's heightIs not so sweet and whiteAs the most heretofore sin-spotted SoulThat darts to its delightStraight from the absolution of a faithful fight. -- Coventry Patmore
I've never felt a strong urge to rush into Hollywood, so I bided my time and waited till I had a decent body of work to show people, the icing on the cake being 'Salmon Fishing' and 'Parade's End.' -- Tom Mison
I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. -Susie Salmon -- Alice Sebold
It [defending Salmon Rushdie] was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual and the defense of free expression. -- Christopher Hitchens
Smoked salmon is for dinner. Belly lox is for breakfast. Don't get that mixed up. -- Alan King
I cook a great fish, a great salmon. I grill it, get the skin nice and crispy. -- Bill Rancic
My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current. -- Laura Schlessinger
Someone may offer you a freshly caught whole large fish, like a salmon or striped bass. Don't panic - take it! -- Julia Child
I have a disgracefully sweet tooth. My younger brother and I, all we care about are puddings. You can keep your smoked salmon and caviar. -- Donald Sinden
I am not a fine chef, but I can certainly get dinner on the table for 14 people. With that many, I try to keep it simple: salmon, mashed potatoes, sauteed spinach, and salad. -- Cindy Crawford
Yes, in the commercial world there's room for both McDonald's and Whole Foods, but in the realm of politics, we're told, it's either Filet-o-Fish or line-caught salmon: only one can prevail - and which is up to you. -- Walter Kirn
I like Alaska for the salmon fishing - it's fantastic there. I usually stay in a log cabin with no one around for miles. I like to go with friends, but I'm also happy to be on my own with nature. -- Vinnie Jones
White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa. -- Barbara Block
If you are going to wrestle a bear, try to stay away from all fish oil products, you know. I mean it's tough for me, because I love to rub myself with salmon oil every day - it's a great conditioner for the hair, skin. -- Will Ferrell
My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband! -- Rachael Ray
Making ribs in Texas isn't that unusual a choice for 'Top Chef'. We played the stereotypes everywhere we go. It's not only in Texas. We do it in New York; we did it in San Francisco. Listen if we shoot it in Seattle you know we're going to be throwing salmon somewhere. -- Tom Colicchio
I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I only have about 15 recipes in my repertoire that I rotate - but I love being able to go down to the river and catch a 30 lb. salmon, then grill it on the barbecue. -- Patrick Duffy
I can make things, but I don't cook them, exactly. Like salmon, I can stick that in a pan. Or the other day I made noodles, but they were hard. It never occurred to me to check them; I just stopped cooking them when I felt they were ready. Really, I'm too absentminded. -- Paula Poundstone
I hate going out for lunch during a workday because it slows down my pace and ruins my rhythm. I prefer to eat at my desk. Actually, I wander around the design studio with a plate in my hand as I dine on, for example, salmon sashimi and a salad of tomatoes and mozzarella. I often have a bit of dark chocolate after lunch. -- Tom Ford
Tequila is my salmon. -- Eddie Redmayne
Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon. -- Ada Leverson
Grilled salmon and brown pasta works for me every time. -- Steven Gerrard
The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
I eat a lot of chicken with salad or salmon with salad. -- Jennifer Ellison
Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes. -- Evelyn Waugh
A smoked salmon sandwich of a football match if ever there has been one. -- Peter Drury
"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon." -- Charles Dickens
A small pepperoni pizza on a tortilla is healthier than salmon teriyaki with rice and carrots. -- Jorge Cruise
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If you don't believe your salmon is wild, ask it to fetch your newspaper and see what happens. -- Scott Adams
I'm a non-confrontational person. If I order salmon and I get chicken, I'm going to eat the chicken. -- Danny Pudi
A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I'd like a nice piece of salmon that's not too pink inside and yet isn't too dry or crisp either. -- Bob Saget
There are times when salmon play no part in the proceedings of a day that is obstensibly spent in their pursuit. -- Dale Rex Coman
Dinner for me is usually some version of chicken or fish - I love salmon - with grilled vegetables and salad. -- Parker Young
When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and Bach. -- Oliver Sacks
I have no sugar. I don't eat fruit or even fruit juice because of the sugar. I eat chicken and salmon and rice. -- Britney Spears
A female salmon lays three thousand eggs a year - and has yet to receive a Mother's Day card from one of them. -- Joan Rivers
'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking. -- Roseanne Barr
Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking. -- Roseanne Barr
It is the large brain capacity which allows man to live as a human being, enjoy taxes, canned salmon, television, and the atomic bomb. -- Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
I'm talkin' about a place where the beer flows like wine, where the women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I'm talkin' about Aspen. -- Jim Carrey
The flesh of king salmon, which varies in color from white to pink to red, has a high fat content, making it perfect for grilling. -- Tom Douglas
Another way I like to barbecue king salmon is as a whole fish stuffed, literally to the gills, with sweet onions, sliced lemons, and summer sage. -- Tom Douglas
It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance... -- Virginia Woolf
I sat next to a salmon on the sofa. After ten minutes of bear-like conversation, it was dead. Oh well, at least surrealism is still alive. -- Jarod Kintz
My message is use grass-fed beef, use heirloom pork varieties, use organic chickens, wait until wild salmon or wild seafood are in season, smoke organic vegetables. -- Steven Raichlen
Honor all living things, for we are of the stag, and the salmon, and the bee; so destroy not life, save it be to preserve your own. -- Scott Cunningham
I network like a salmon in a bear costume. Why swim upstream when the honeybee has all the flowers? Is anything more romantic than roses on a grave? -- Jarod Kintz
If our salmon are not healthy, then our watersheds are not healthy-and if our watersheds our not healthy, then we have truly squandered our heritage and mortgaged our future. -- John Kitzhaber
I left home at the correct time but when I was riding along near the hatchery, the crew was separating some salmon, I guess I just got distraught, watching them. -- Lois Lowry
I love sushi. Once on Valentine's Day, someone I was dating rocked up at the airport to pick me up with a bag of salmon because I love it so much. -- Ella Eyre
It should be like a salmon taking to open water. I've done so much morning radio that I won't be overwhelmed by it, but it's still going to be a challenge. -- Adam Carolla
The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Of course, Tally thought, you'd have to feed your cat only salmon-flavored cat food for a while, to get the pinks right. -- Scott Westerfeld
The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies. -- Yolanda Adams
We are also working on the restoration of salmon runs, and we are doing a new process of mass marking with these fish so we can tell the wild fish from the hatchery fish. -- Norm Dicks
There is nothing particularly wrong with salmon, of course, but like caramel candy, strawberry yogurt, or liquid carpet cleaner, if you eat too much of it you are not going to enjoy your meal. -- Daniel Handler

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