Whale Quotes

132 Whale quotes by 107 unique authors

The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs. — Romare Bearden
Back in 1980, whale watching surpassed whaling as an industry. Now it's worth about four times as much. Whale watching provides far, far more jobs… — Paul Watson
I think a good novel would be where a bunch of men on a ship are looking for a whale. They look and look, but… — Jack Handey
My wife says I'm making a noise like a stranded whale. I think I have a major snoring problem. — Rex Hunt
When I'm awake all night, sometimes I see the people and the city waking up around me. I feel a little bit moody at them… — Burial
I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his boat poising his… — James Joyce
Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale... from hell's heart I stab at thee. — Herman Melville
The country's newest aquarium, opened in November, bills itself as the largest in the world, holding more than 100,000 animals representing 500 species. It is… — John Grant
Isimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (rhinoceros) and the world biggest terrestrial mammal (elephant) share an ecosystem… — Nelson Mandela
The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles… — Benjamin Franklin
Save the gerund and screw the whale. — Tom Stoppard
Like the whale who swallowed Jonah, we have engulfed all national dishes known to civilized man and made them in delight, if not in name… — Louis Pullig De Gouy
The fact is, that among his hunters at least, the whale would by all hands be considered a noble dish, were there not so much… — Herman Melville
It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices… — Herman Melville
I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present. — Bill Condon
Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast. — Bob Kerrey
If you are looking for a whale you cannot search for a whale in a pond. You must go to deep waters. — Prashant Iyengar
Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe. — Edmund Burke
Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men… — Phyllis McGinley
Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you've… — Spider Robinson
My commitment is to my kids and my mum and I'm having a whale of a time. — Carol Vorderman
Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow. — P T Barnum
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd. — Bill Condon
There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful. — Bill Condon
I have a tattoo on my foot that says 'it's a whale' in Japanese, because Japanese people kill whales. My stuffed whale was like most… — Skylar Grey

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