“Optimists are those who go after Moby dick in a row boat with a bucket of tarter sauce.” — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.” — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
I'd like to play the whale in 'Moby Dick.' If I keep eating, I may end up getting there. — Richard Jenkins Copy Share Image
Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.' — Nathaniel Philbrick 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
“I held a beautiful leather-bound copy of Moby Dick in one hand and my Moby dick in the other.” — Nick Pageant Copy Share Image
“...the chapters on whaling in MOBY DICK can be omitted by all but the most punishment-loving readers.” — William Goldman Copy Share Image
Then there are actors my age like Ethan Hawke, he's in 'Moby Dick,' I love his work. I've been lucky. Alfred Molina,… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
“Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
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
'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment. — Nathaniel Philbrick 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 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
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
“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
“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
“She’ll probably have all the work made up and a dozen stories written for The Oracle before I finish that one stupid… — Francine Pascal 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
Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how… — Michael Chabon 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
“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
“One day he reads his friend's novel and discovers that Ishmael's account and his own memories of what happened are completely different.… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte 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
“Now the various species of whales need some sort of popular comprehensive classification, if only an easy outline one for the present,… — 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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“-¿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
“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
“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
“There she blows!-there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
