Details Quote by Laurie Anderson

The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When…

— Gavin O'Connor

Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing.

— Chad Harbach

“Long ago, in a town called Nantucket in the state of Massachusetts, there lived an old, eccentric sea captain named Ahab.  He was a…

— Max James

Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow,…

— Herman Melville

“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

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

“Having a dick is one of the most dangerous things on the planet. How many people are eaten by sharks each year? How many…

— Bill Burr

“Killer whales were named as such because they sometimes preyed on large whales and sharks”

— Adam Anderson

“*The ancient whale-cry upon first sighting a whale from the mast-head, still used by whalemen in hunting the famous Gallipagos terrapin.”

— Herman Melville

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

— Bill Condon