First-sentence Quote by Herman Melville Download Open image ““Call me Ishmael.”” — Herman Melville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Call Me Ishmael First-sentence Introduction Opening-lines Sobriquet
“When there's no other name to call, you can call on the Lord. He's the One who is always listening. Even in the darkness.” — Dorothy Love Copy Share Image
“and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“(On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Yet this is life. For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm; and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The family landed in the Western Hemisphere in the person of Roger Blake Wolfe, who arrived with a price on his head.” — James Carlos Blake Copy Share Image
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It was a small town by a small river and a small lake in a small northern part of a Midwest state. There wasn't… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“When a naked man shows up on your doorstep with a bear trap clamped around his ankle, it's best just to do what he… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
“My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“There is no man so unsuited for the task of speaking about memory as I am, for I find scarcely a trace of it… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share Image
