“There she blows!-there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
'Baltimore' the series is inspired by all kinds of things, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Dracula.' — Christopher Golden Copy Share Image
Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick. — Robert Indiana 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
The great lesson I get from 'Moby-Dick' is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still… — Nathaniel Philbrick 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
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
“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
“There you stand, lost in the infinite series of the sea, with nothing ruffled but the waves. The tranced ship indolently rolls;… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“In school I ended up writing three different papers on "The Castaway" section of Moby-Dick, the chapter where the cabin boy Pip… — David Foster Wallace 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
“When we think of the masterpieces that nobody praised and nobody read, back there in the past, we feel an impatient superiority… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“She remembered what her aunts had told her about a woman’s vaginal walls becoming thinner and drier in later years, which could… — David L. Wadley Copy Share Image
“I do not know where I can find a better place than just here, to make mention of one or two other… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“When one reads, and re-reads, Moby Dick , it seems to me that one gets a more convincing, a more definite, impression… — W. Somerset Maugham 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
“MOBY DICK; OR THE WHALE by Herman Melville CHAPTER 1 Loomings Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely— having… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Without turning, the pharmacist answered that he liked books like The Metamorphosis, Bartleby, A Simple Heart, A Christmas Carol. And then he… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“-¿Tienes idea de lo que he pasado? -Cuéntamelo. -Casi me hace trizas un doctor loco. Un puñado de asquerosos piratas me hicieron… — David Kirschner Copy Share Image
“Oh, Starbuck! it is a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking sky. On such a day - very much such a… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“We hear more about dignity and “pensive luster” from cultures where the patina of age is highly valued, from the shutaku (soil… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
“The Idiot. I have read it once, and find that I don't remember the events of the book very well--or even all… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Long ago, in a town called Nantucket in the state of Massachusetts, there lived an old, eccentric sea captain named Ahab. He… — Max James Copy Share Image
