Best Whale Sayings
132 Whale quotes by 107 unique authors
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The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the…
— Northrop Frye
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Sleep and I do not have a good relationship. We have never been good friends. I am constantly chasing sleep and then pushing it away.…
— Amy Poehler
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The gulfing whale was like a dot in the spell. Yet look upon it, and 'twould size and swell To its huge self, and the…
— William Blake
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My favorite wild animal is a narwhal - the unicorn of the sea. It's a whale with a tooth that sticks out of its head…
— Kesha
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I had whale tartare when I was in Japan, but I probably wouldn't have it again.
— Sasha Cohen
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and…
— Herman Melville
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
— Herman Melville
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I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV…
— Karl Pilkington
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God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a…
— Adam Sandler
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The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
— Bill Vaughan
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Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and…
— Dylan Thomas
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Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel? Polonius: By the mass, and ‘tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet: Methinks it…
— William Shakespeare
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I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm…
— Daniel Handler
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Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.
— John Adams
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I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry, and it travels…
— Chris Crutcher
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It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that eye was now.…
— Miranda July
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How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark." "A whale isn't a fish, Thursday." "A whale shark…
— Jasper Fforde
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The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.
— Thomas Szasz
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We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break…
— John Adams
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A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed…
— Upton Sinclair
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Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to…
— Mitch Albom
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We look high and low for God, but somehow He's not there. So we blame Him and tell ourselves that He must have forgotten us.…
— Michael Jackson
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Last week we went to the museum. A whole whale is hanging from the ceiling. Bigger than big! OK, have you seen a Volkswagon car…
— Sapphire
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