“It is a truth universally acknowledged, he’d mused, that most people will never find their ‘call me Ishmael’.” — Django Wylie Copy Share Image
Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“It is not the fault of Ishmael that he was born by a bond woman but it will surely be his fault… — Ikechukwu Izuakor Copy Share Image
“You don't have to see it to love it. Just love it for it is good and that is love.” — christian Thogolith Copy Share Image
If you can’t discover what’s keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - "Ishmael — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
And I, Nephi, took one of the daughters of Ishmael to wife.' Well Mr. Go-And-Do just went and did! — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
“If then, Sir William Jones, who read in thirty languages, could not read the simplest peasant’s face in its profounder and more… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“In Ishmael I articulated a living mythology that is so integral to our culture that it’s never examined or even noticed by… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“We made it back to the airport without getting mugged, stoned, shot at, pounced on, bombed, shelled, garroted, gassed, pitched into, caught… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“Moby Dick is my favorite book —I’ve been rereading it every year since I was sixteen. ‘Call me Ishmael’ is the greatest… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
As God's child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord's time is as important as the Lord's will. Do not rashly… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
“caring about lives is not caring about your own life. it's all about giving your last breath for others to live. The… — christian Copy Share Image
David Simon goes to the Jewish Weekly and said he's made all this money, but he can't enjoy it because of criticism… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I really admire the experimentalists who challenge traditional narrative - writers like Ishmael Reed, Michael Martone, Donald Barthelme, Tatyana Tolstaya, George Saunders,… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
“Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Such was the Arab of the desert, the dweller in tents, in whom was fulfilled the prophetic destiny of his ancestor Ishmael.… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Call me Ishmael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Ishmael gave himself to the writing of it, and as he did so he understood this, too: that accident ruled every corner… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
I think I'm a bit like Ishmael in 'Moby Dick': a story teller and an observer in his own crisis. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
