Whales Quotes - Page 6

• The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Nature, Fall, Finest

  Letter, The Public Advertiser, 22 May 1765.

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• The fact is, that among his hunters at least, the whale would by all hands be considered a noble dish, were there not so much of him; but when you come to sit down before a meat-pie nearly one hundred feet long, it takes away your appetite.

  Herman Melville

  Hands, Feet, Pie

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.207, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• What I have against religion is that they start you when you are so defenseless. I mean, I was three when they started pumping this bullshit into my head. I believed in Santa Claus and the Fairy Godmother, of course I believed in a virgin birth, and a guy lived in a whale, and a woman came from a rib. But then something happened that made me doubt all of it: I graduated sixth grade!

  Bill Maher

  Mean, Bullshit, Guy

  "Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home". Documentary, Comedy, 2003.

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• It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices there.

  Herman Melville

  Three, Records, Delicacy

  Herman Melville (2016). “Herman Melville The Dover Reader”, p.297, Courier Dover Publications

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• Oh, are you from Wales? Do you know a fella named Jonah-He used to live in whales for a while

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Used, Wales

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• The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where five Canadian provinces surround him, for the most part invisible... to enter Canada is a matter of being silently swallowed by an alien continent.

  Northrop Frye

  Travel, Past, Europe

  Northrop Frye (2013). “The Stubborn Structure: Essays on Criticism and Society”, p.282, Routledge

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• There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.

  Bill Condon

  Successful, Wonderful, Wonderful Experience

  "Writer-director Bill Condon passionately praises the subject of his biopic". www.contactmusic.com. January 7, 2009.

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• We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

  Bill Condon

  Crowds, Kind, Genre

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• Sleep and I do not have a good relationship. We have never been good friends. I am constantly chasing sleep and then pushing it away. A good night's sleep is my white whale. Like Ahab, I am also a total drama queen about it. I love to talk about how little sleep I get. I brag about it, as if it is a true indication of how hard I work.

  Amy Poehler

  Good Night, Queens, Drama

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• Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes- all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them.

  John Muir

  Life, Nature, Fun

  John Muir (2015). “John Muir: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth & Letters to a Friend (Autobiography With Original Drawings): The Memoirs of the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite, Travels in Alaska, The Mountains of California & Steep Trails”, p.73, e-artnow

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• I guess even the prettiest things eventually end up stinking. Everything does. We all will die and rot and decay and be reborn as dirt or flowers or worms, or polar bears who will drown because their ice is all melting, or presidents of war-torn countries, or whales swimming around acidifying seas. And then we will rot and decay again. And so it goes.

  Jaimal Yogis

  Country, War, Flower

  Jaimal Yogis (2009). “Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• I’ve long been a fan of IMAX nature documentaries, but Humpback Whales, directed by Greg MacGillivray, is something special.

  Joe Morgenstern

  Long, Special, Fans

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• I have a tattoo on my foot that says 'it's a whale' in Japanese, because Japanese people kill whales. My stuffed whale was like most children's teddy bear. I took it with me everywhere. I slept with it. I couldn't live without my whale.

  Skylar Grey

  Tattoo, Children, Feet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say - a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale.

  William Carlos Williams

  Thinking, Numbers, Cooking

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• Isimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (rhinoceros) and the world biggest terrestrial mammal (elephant) share an ecosystem with the world's oldest fish (coelacanth) and the world's biggest marine mammal (whale)

  Nelson Mandela

  Marine, Land, Ecosystems

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• We were doing Scarface many years ago...and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean. I thought, what's going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director, Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.

  Al Pacino

  Beach, Coffee, Ocean

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes.

  Orson Scott Card

  Writing, Stories, Scene

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• The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the water, then we saw the huge blue-black bulk glide quietly under the raft right beneath our feet. It lay there for some time, dark and motionless, and we held our breath as we looked down on the gigantic curved back of a mammal a good deal longer than the raft.

  Virginia Woolf

  Time, Dark, Blue

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• I'm working for the people of Maine, not the whales of Maine.

  Paul LePage

  People, Maine

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• I can assure you no whales are going to be killed today.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Today, I Can

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• COMMEMORATION Blessed art Thou, O Lord who didst bring forth of water moving creatures that have life, and whales, and winged fowls: and didst bless them, so as to increase and multiply. The things concerning the Ascension: Set up Thyself, O God, above the heavens and Thy glory above all the earth. By thine Ascension draw us withal unto Thee, O Lord, so as to set our affections on things above, and not on things on the earth. By the awful mystery of Thy Holy Body and Precious Blood in the evening of this day: Lord, have mercy.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Life, Art, Moving

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• Do you think if it was the fairy tale about a man who lived inside of a whale and it was religion that Jack built a beanstalk today, you would know the difference? Why do you believe in one fairy tale and not the other? Just because adults told you it was true and they scared you into believing it, at pain of death, at pain of burning in hell.

  Bill Maher

  Pain, Believe, Men

  "Scarborough Country" with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. February 15, 2005.

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• As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain.

  Jim Starlin

  Elephants, Bigs, Chains

  "Jim Starlin Kills The New Gods". Comicon.com, August 2007.

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• I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.

  Steven Tyler

  Beautiful, Children, Water

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• So concisely, musically we are the herb
  So sit back and light me.
  Inhale...
  My style's kinda fat, reminiscent of a whale.

  Q-Tip

  Rap, Light, Hip Hop

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