I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing. — Chad Harbach 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
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
“Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.” — Zig Ziglar 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
“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
'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
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
“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
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
“...the chapters on whaling in MOBY DICK can be omitted by all but the most punishment-loving readers.” — William Goldman 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
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 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“Renee: "You know what I did when I finished Moby Dick?" David: "You harpooned the guy that sold you the book?” — John C. Stipa Copy Share Image
“He could’ve penned a rendition of Moby Dick in Pig Latin and he wouldn’t have been the wiser.” — Kelly Moran Copy Share Image
“Those who can think up feminism or structuralism; those who can't apply such insights to "Moby Dick" or "The Cat in the… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Every time Elvis sings, he makes a bargain with the devil -- just like Captain Ahab in MOBY DICK!” — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's… — Nathaniel Philbrick 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
As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
When I started out on 'Min Kamp', I was so extremely frustrated over my life and my writing. I wanted to write… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
Race is the true protagonist of the American novel. Our most popular classic fictions have known this, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Beloved;'… — Kevin Young 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
“If Jack Dylan was Captain Ahab, Bart Breitner was Moby Dick. Jack felt exhilarated, as Ahab must have felt when he finally… — Mark M. Bello 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
“Peter held up the book he had been reading: 'Moby-Dick; or, The Whale'. "To tell you the truth, I'm not even sure… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
