Business Quote by Herman Melville

“...the wires he wore had grown all through him, as the roots of trees replace the flesh of corpses; and the vast coils of…

— Raphael Carter

“Wherefore, for all these things, we account the whale immortal in his species, however perishable in his individuality. He”

— Herman Melville

“Growl, you live in a slime lair and maintain an identity as the mysterious overlord of an undersea city, you command a fleet of…

— Christopher Moore

“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

“Truly to appreciate what fossils are requires a leap of imagination he was not capable of making.”

— Tracy Chevalier

“Why, you boggle-eyed, flap-tongued, drag-bellied offspring of unmentionable algae! You seething little leprous blotch of bat-nibbled fungus! You cringing parasite on the underside of…

— Lewis Padgett

“Sometimes I think that it is only the monstrous conceit of mankind which makes him think that all this stage was erected for him…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Man, attracted by the treasure that the victory over the whale might afford him, has troubled the peace of their immense solitary abodes, violated…

— Bernard-Germain de La Cépède

“... this imminent danger seemed to take bodily shape, and I could almost fancy that I saw this most loathsome and dangerous of all…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.”

— William Shakespeare

“God, I understand whale anatomy. Can we move on now, Herman?”

— John Green

“I tell you, the sperm whale will stand no nonsense.”

— Herman Melville