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Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me… — Wavy Gravy
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
It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the… — Lewis Thomas
I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present. — Bill Condon
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales. — Oliver Goldsmith
I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it. — George Gaylord Simpson
In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not land until they… — Sandra Steingraber
Oh, are you from Wales? Do you know a fella named Jonah-He used to live in whales for a while — Groucho Marx
Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast. — Bob Kerrey
How come Aquaman can control whales? They’re mammals! Makes no sense. — Andy Weir
I’ve long been a fan of IMAX nature documentaries, but Humpback Whales, directed by Greg MacGillivray, is something special. — Joe Morgenstern
I guess even the prettiest things eventually end up stinking. Everything does. We all will die and rot and decay and be reborn as dirt… — Jaimal Yogis
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
America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built… — Simon Hoggart
I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get… — Miranda Richardson
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
Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the water in a… — Tim Cahill

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