Best Whale Quotations
132 Whale quotes by 107 unique authors
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When did you get so smart?" He tapped his forehead. "Brain transplant. They put in a whale's. I'm passing all my classes with my eyes…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Tobias asked. "Weird? Weird?" Marco crowed. "The talking bird wants to know if getting information on the location of an alien from a whale, that…
— Katherine Applegate
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I don’t know. There are times when I get the feeling he can’t tell me from Nynia. I think he loves her more than me.…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn…
— Herman Melville
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It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and…
— Herman Melville
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This is a world where everybody’s gotta do something. Ya know, somebody laid down this rule that everybody’s gotta do something, they gotta be something.…
— Charles Bukowski
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He: "Whale you be my valentine?" She: "Dolphinitely.
— Adam Young
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She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale. "DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S BODIES!" Alaska shouted. Now he looked up. "Sorry.…
— John Green
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There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.
— Tom Robbins
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I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. just last week,…
— Muhammad Ali
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Explore me' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the mass of you…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is…
— Craig Clevenger
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Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich
— John Green
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Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order to find out…
— Paul Auster
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In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.
— Douglas Adams
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We stared at the odd garment and wondered what it was for. 'What is it?' asked Larry at length. 'It's a bathing costume, of course,'…
— Gerald Durrell
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Dudley had reached roughly the size and weight of a young killer whale.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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It wasn't exactly like talking, but it went something like this: Could you give us a ride north, Percy asked, like as close to Portland…
— Rick Riordan
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Dear Habicht, / Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when…
— Albert Einstein
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If the bible myth of Jonah in the whale and the Mother Goose myth of Jack and the Beanstalk were switched at birth so that…
— Bill Maher
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On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath me. It was…
— Lewis Gordon Pugh
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The killer whale Tilikum has helped SeaWorld sell millions of dollars worth of tickets.
— Jane Velez-Mitchell
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I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness.
— Paul Watson
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As long as there is a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Sea Shepherd crew will continue to patrol and defend it.
— Paul Watson
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To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme.
— Paul Watson
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