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To me, these biblical stories are just so many fish stories, and I'm not specifically referring to Jonah and the whale. I need indisputable proof… — W.C. Fields
The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week? — Terry Pratchett
To have a huge, friendly whale willingly approach your boat and look you straight in the eye is without doubt one of the most extraordinary… — Mark Carwardine
Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying… — Jonathan Swift
And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real… — Herman Melville
All of the great whales are endangered. — Paul Watson
I have been honored to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit… — Paul Watson
A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and… — Kurt Vonnegut
A whale is as unique as a cactus. But don't ask a whale to survive Death Valley. We all have special gifts. Where we use… — Max De Pree
The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out of the blue, started singing. And the… — Joanna Newsom
I'm working for the people of Maine, not the whales of Maine. — Paul LePage
Do you think if it was the fairy tale about a man who lived inside of a whale and it was religion that Jack built… — Bill Maher
In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes: cloud… — Eban Goodstein
The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living… — James Lovelock
. . . indeed what reason may not go to Schoole to the wisdome of Bees, Ants, and Spiders? what wise hand teacheth them to… — Thomas Browne
You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it… — Orson Scott Card
In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle. — Sri Yukteswar Giri
I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E. O. Wilson reminded… — James Lovelock
Thanks to a lot of people, not just myself, Whale Rider had an amazing impact emotionally, and people remember it. I count myself very lucky… — Keisha Castle-Hughes
Spain- a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe. — Elizabeth Oakes Smith
Where are your combing seas, your blue water, your rollers, your breakers, your whales, or your waterspouts, and your endless motion, in this bit of… — Walt Whitman
I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a… — John Masefield
COMMEMORATION Blessed art Thou, O Lord who didst bring forth of water moving creatures that have life, and whales, and winged fowls: and didst bless… — Lancelot Andrewes
Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother whales lie dreaming… — D. H. Lawrence
The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the… — Virginia Woolf

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