Moby Dick Quote by Herman Melville Download Open image ““Moby Dick doesn't bite so much as he swallows.”” — Herman Melville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Moby Dick
“Opening her mouth to take a bite seemed forward. Chewing? Obscene. Mutual mastication was out of the question.” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“Don't bite off more than you can chew because nobody looks attractive spitting it back out.” — Carroll Bryant Copy Share Image
“I held a beautiful leather-bound copy of Moby Dick in one hand and my Moby dick in the other.” — Nick Pageant Copy Share Image
“Don't you dare," I manage breathily, when his gaze drops to my mouth. "I bite." Damn him, he presses closer. "Maybe tonight I fancy… — Tessa Bailey Copy Share Image
“I spit out to my heart and my mind. when you collect them together, they can not show the resistance of an average dick.” — Arzum Uzun Copy Share Image
“Then, I reached for my sandwich and took a bite. It wasn’t the same as biting a person, but the chewing helped.” — Penny Reid 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
“One day he reads his friend's novel and discovers that Ishmael's account and his own memories of what happened are completely different. So he… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
Then there are actors my age like Ethan Hawke, he's in 'Moby Dick,' I love his work. I've been lucky. Alfred Molina, he has… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
When your Dad was the creator of 'Moby Dick' you kind of steer clear of getting compared in a solo-ing aspect. — Jason Bonham Copy Share Image
“If Jack Dylan was Captain Ahab, Bart Breitner was Moby Dick. Jack felt exhilarated, as Ahab must have felt when he finally encountered the… — Mark M. Bello Copy Share Image
Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick. — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
“She’ll probably have all the work made up and a dozen stories written for The Oracle before I finish that one stupid book report… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
“There you stand, lost in the infinite series of the sea, with nothing ruffled but the waves. The tranced ship indolently rolls; the drowsy… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
When you look at almost every submarine movie, to some degree or another, there's this 'Moby Dick' element, this Ahab element to them. — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
“...the chapters on whaling in MOBY DICK can be omitted by all but the most punishment-loving readers.” — William Goldman Copy Share Image
If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history. — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
