Egypt Quote by Eamonn Gearon

“Big white whale is a metaphor for everything. You live for pretentious metaphors.”

— John Green

“The life of a whale is short on land.”

— Nicolas Massimi

“I do not know where I can find a better place than just here, to make mention of one or two other things, which…

— Herman Melville

“The shifting sands of the world... show how much the surrealists were drawn towards an interrogation of what reality actually is. Unlike fabulists of…

— Michael Richardson

“The heroic and often tragic stories of American whalemen were renowned. They sailed the world’s oceans and brought back tales filled with bravery, perseverance,…

— Eric Jay Dolin

“I pictured the mother whale, exhausted from labor, pushing her calf up to the skin of the water. The miracle of breath in the…

— Megan Mayhew Bergman

“One faction views SeaWorld as a Garden Hilton for killer whales, and the other views it as a Hanoi Hilton for killer whales.”

— David Kirby

“Oh Sahara! Sahara, my love, my sweet tormenting death.”

— Christos Tsotsos

“Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity. But what then? Methinks we have…

— Herman Melville

“For a Coming Extinction Gray whale Now that we are sending you to The End That great god Tell him That we who follow…

— W.S. Merwin

“(Because Jonah’s real story is the one never told: never was he as stupendously happy as during those three days and three nights of…

— Hélène Cixous

“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the…

— Herman Melville