When you look at almost every submarine movie, to some degree or another, there's this 'Moby Dick' element, this Ahab element to… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.' — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
“But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. (Moby… — herman melville Copy Share Image
“It is no less difficult to write a sentence in a recipe than sentences in Moby Dick. So you might as well… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick, largely withdrew from public life for thirty years. “All profound things,” he wrote, “are preceded and… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
When your Dad was the creator of 'Moby Dick' you kind of steer clear of getting compared in a solo-ing aspect. — Jason Bonham Copy Share Image
I love to read. I was in AP English in high school, and we were assigned books every few months. 'Moby Dick'… — Spencer Boldman Copy Share Image
“Rad had written a two-sentence response for his comparison/contrast between Moby Dick and The Old Man and the Sea: “The fishermen lost… — Emm Oh Copy Share Image
“Everybody talked about Freud when I lived in New Orleans, but I have never read him. Neither did Shakespeare. I doubt if… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“been forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby-Dick — largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and responsible for Melville's drop in popularity… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I admire American literature, both contemporary and classic - 'Moby-Dick' is just about the best book in the world - and I… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“My favorite book is God-Shaped Hole. It’s not a classic. It’s better than a classic. It’s a modern-day tragedy. I’ve never read… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book,… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
“Do you like Moby Dick ?" he asks. "I hate it," she says. "And I don't say that about many things. Teachers… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“There are good and great books on the Esquire list, though even Moby-Dick, which I love, reminds me that a book without… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I will have no man in my boat," said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of a whale." By this, he seemed to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
When I go on vacation, I take very few clothes and a whole lot of books. It's the most soothing thing in… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
“Optimists are those who go after Moby dick in a row boat with a bucket of tarter sauce.” — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
'Baltimore' the series is inspired by all kinds of things, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Dracula.' — Christopher Golden Copy Share Image
I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“There she blows!-there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr 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
“It's a tiny bestseller, but, officially yes. But, hey, most people haven't read Moby-Dick, so why the hell should they read my… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
“But Moby-Dick is the explanation of America. It’s not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is the book.… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
“But how? Genius in the Sperm Whale? Has the Sperm Whale ever written a book, spoken a speech? No, his great genius… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
When I was young, I kept trying to read 'Moby-Dick', and I couldn't get that far into it. And I kept thinking,… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life,… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
“Do you realize that all great literature — "Moby Dick," "Huckleberry Finn," "A Farewell to Arms," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Red Badge… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the… — Gavin O'Connor Copy Share Image
There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I… — Julius Erving Copy Share Image
“His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Why do anything-- why wash my hair, why read Moby Dick, why fall in love, why sit through six hours of Nicholas… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“The colonel dwelt in a vortex of specialists who were still specializing in trying to determine what was troubling him. They hurled… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
