Best Whales Lines
206 Whales quotes by 166 unique authors
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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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If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity. If there's no relationship with nature then you become a killer; then you kill…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.
— Cormac McCarthy
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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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Actually, orcas aren't quite as complex as scientists imagine. Most killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car.
— Christopher Moore
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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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The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or…
— Daniel Quinn
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I have no use for the kind of God who goes walking in his garden with a stick, sends his friends to live in the…
— Gustave Flaubert
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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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Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs with sensible vehicles…
— Matt Taibbi
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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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This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean ― next stop China. The coyote was…
— Richard Brautigan
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Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your…
— Neil Postman
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It's like you said the other day," said Adam. "You grow up readin' about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus' when you…
— Neil Gaiman
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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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Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by…
— Virginia Woolf
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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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Pirate Dreams Needles and pins, Needles and pins, Sew me a sail to catch me the wind. Sew me a sail strong as the gale,…
— Shel Silverstein
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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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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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