I’ve long been a fan of IMAX nature documentaries, but Humpback Whales, directed by Greg MacGillivray, is something special. — Joe Morgenstern Copy Share Image
And one rose in a tent of sea and gave A darkening shudder; water fell away; The whale stood shining, and then… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language? — John Vaillant Copy Share Image
I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
Lovely Arra Sails, nectar to all males, how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale! — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
My wife says I'm making a noise like a stranded whale. I think I have a major snoring problem. — Rex Hunt Copy Share Image
“Comparing the humped herds of whales with the humped herds of buffalo, which, not forty years ago, overspread by tens of thousands… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
If I say that I am more interested in preventing the slaughter of large whales than I am in improving housing conditions… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To wake up in England and have the newspaper on your front door with a headline that says, 'Ozzie's Beach Whale of… — Kelly Osbourne Copy Share Image
Eventually I had so many little melodies and ideas that, you know, that they were all songs to me and I threw… — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
Light doesn't penetrate beneath the surface of the water, so ocean creatures like whales and dolphins and even 800 species of fish… — Rose George Copy Share Image
A whale is as unique as a cactus. But don't ask a whale to survive Death Valley. We all have special gifts.… — Max De Pree Copy Share Image
I like people. I like animals, too-whales and quail, dinosaurs and dodos. But I like human beings especially, and I am unhappy… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Back in 1980, whale watching surpassed whaling as an industry. Now it's worth about four times as much. Whale watching provides far,… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
In the [first] fifteen years [of field work] I can remember just ten times when I had really narrow escapes from death.… — Roy Chapman Andrews Copy Share Image
When did you get so smart?" He tapped his forehead. "Brain transplant. They put in a whale's. I'm passing all my classes… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
We live in a fantastically wealthy country. We don't have to worry about food. We don't have to worry about clothing. We… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
Whales have become newly symbolic of real values in a world environment of which man is newly aware. Whales live in families,… — Victor Blanchard Scheffer Copy Share Image
I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Oh, the foghorns... even the foghorns, they're all brass. It's something by Ingrid Marshal called Fog Tropes. It's not a sound effect.… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
It wasn't exactly like talking, but it went something like this: Could you give us a ride north, Percy asked, like as… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
We live in an age when you can prowl the streets of major cities and find human beings offering themselves in store… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Most whale photos you see show whales in this beautiful blue water - it's almost like space. — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song. — Gregory Colbert Copy Share Image
Kings also sleep; but the clever ones, with one eye open, just like dolphins and whales — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
“killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car.” — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week? — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen. — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales? — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“It's all in the opposition of the thumbs. For all we know, whales sing in three act plays—but they can't write them… — Bronwen Wallace Copy Share Image
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