37+ Best Jellyfish Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Jellyfish is a sea creature with a soft, oval, almost transparent body. Profoundly inspirational jellyfish quotes will challenge the way you think, change the way you live and transform your whole life.

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Famous Jellyfish Quotes

When you move like a jellyfish
Rhythm doesn’t mean nothing
You go with the flow
You don’t stop. — Jack Johnson

Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish. — Charles Chaplin

What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but that’s not true at all. The real world is a much darker and deeper place than this, and much of it is occupied by jellyfish and things. — Haruki Murakami

I’ve never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins. — Peter Benchley

I’m wearing shoes made of sea foam, and I am here to seduce the elderly. If you brought the geriatrics, then I brought the jellyfish. — Jarod Kintz

It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle. — Karl Pilkington

I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage. — Molly Harper

The box jellyfish takes you into an area of what I’d call science fiction. You feel like you’ve been dipped in hot burning oil. You burst into flames. — Diana Nyad

As if she is lost in that picture, lost in the blur of water and sky and I am the only thing holding her firm. — Carrie Ryan

A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes – as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was. — Jeffrey Kluger

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish. — Gene Tierney

I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say. — Neil Young

I spent my first 4 years living in the tiny town of Snug, by the sea near Hobart. Curious about animals, I would pick up ants in our backyard and jellyfish on the beach. — Elizabeth Blackburn

Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they’re simple to deconstruct. — Jeffrey Kluger

We have a huge amount of DNA in common with jellyfish. — Richard Dawkins

jellyfish quotes

I’d visually have that idea. I’m diving off the end of the diving board. I’m not going to be worried about if I’m going to dive into a jellyfish or the water’s going to be too cold or the boys are going to beat me. I’m just doing it. And if I do it, it’s a good chance I’ll make it. — Gail Sheehy

Short Jellyfish Quotes

I’m nearly see-through. Like a jellyfish. — Katherine Ryan

In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party. — Jeb Hensarling

I liked the banana-seat bikes with the high handlebars – maybe a card in the wheel could have been part of it. — Stone Gossard

To do a 75-minute movie about SpongeBob wanting to make some jellyfish jelly would be a mistake, I think. — Stephen Hillenburg

Squid don’t eat jellyfish, but they eat the things that eat the jellyfish. Jellyfishes put on a lightshow to attract a larger predator. It’s caught in the clutches of something like a fish and has no hope for escape unless its lightshow attracts something bigger that will attack their attacker. — Edith Widder

I’ve been stung by a jellyfish. — Lights

I think life’s a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide’s just gently helping you along. — Andrew Buchan

I’m a music fan first and foremost. I can find the beauty in Jellyfish and U2 just as much as Opeth and Lamb of God, just as much as I can with Rush and Yes. — Mike Portnoy

Teachers themselves know if there’s a colleague who can’t keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school. — Michael Gove

I’m no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can. — Francis Ford Coppola

Cute Jellyfish Quotes

The jellyfish doesn’t actively move anywhere – it’s just moved with the tides. Is that what man is? Man’s just the jellyfish: stuff happens to you, and you get twisted in different directions. — Andrew Buchan

Finding animals that make light in the ocean is easy. Just drag a net through the water anywhere in the upper 3000 feet, and as many as 80-90% of the animals you catch can make light. The biomimetic lure that I developed imitates one of these – a common deep sea jellyfish called Atolla. — Edith Widder

I grew up down in Florida, and in the Keys, there’s this place called Sea Camp which was not unlike Space Camp, except you explored the sea. And so that kind of whetted my appetite for that. But then I ended up swimming in a lagoon full of Cassiopeia jellyfish, and that quickly quashed that desire to be a marine biologist. — Joe Lo Truglio

The prize was really for the molecule. In 1962, Osamu Shimomura discovered a protein in a jellyfish that caused it to glow bright green. With colleagues, 30 years later, I was able to insert this G.F.P. gene into bacteria and make them turn green. — Martin Chalfie

The most venomous animal that lives in the ocean is the box jellyfish. And every one of those barbs is sending that venom into this central nervous system. So first I feel like boiling hot oil I’ve been dipped in. And I’m yelling out, ‘Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Help me! Somebody help me!’ And the next thing is paralysis. — Diana Nyad

My relationship with American audiences is the exact same as it always has been. They never came to see my films, and they don’t come now. — Woody Allen

‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It’s because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish. — Vince Gilligan

In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluorescent protein that was isolated from the bioluminescent chemistry of a jellyfish, and it’s been equated to the invention of the microscope in terms of the impact that it has had on cell biology and genetic engineering. — Edith Widder

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. — Andrew Carnegie

Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish. — Bill Bailey

I guess over the course of time, I started to open up to a lot of the issues surrounding the oceans. From my personal experience, being out in the water and seeing plastics floating around and thinking they are jellyfish and realizing they’re plastic bags. I’m always that guy that will take it into the shore. — Cody Simpson

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