Avoid Quote by Nathaniel Philbrick

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

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

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“My life is littered with copies of Moby Dick.”

— Peter O'Toole

“Islands, being harder to get to, naturally separated some of the wheat from the chaff, which was the entire philosophy behind places like Nantucket,…

— Emma Straub

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

— Chad Harbach

I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.

— Nat Faxon

“And let me in this place movingly admonish you, ye ship-owners of Nantucket! Beware of enlisting in your vigilant fisheries any lad with lean…

— Herman Melville

“The Nantucketer, he alone resides and riots on the sea; he alone, in Bible language, goes down to it in ships; to and fro…

— Herman Melville

“Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.”

— Zig Ziglar

“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

I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock, as a…

— Jess Walter

“Ah, the Gilligan's Island conundrum: why were the Howells on a crappy three-hour excursion cruise in the first place, when they could've been on…

— Carolyn Parkhurst