Captain Ahab Quotes
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Captain Ahab Quotes & Sayings
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To write is human, to edit is divine.
— Stephen King
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.
— Smedley Butler
We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.
— Matthew Stewart
To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.
— Herman Melville
We ought to give each other, a chance to change.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived.
— Salman Rushdie
What's so fascinating about people is what they don't show. People are masters at it; usually actors show too much.
— Glenn Close
He's not going to sell any of those caps. He should just let the monkeys keep them. They are the only ones that want them anyway.
— Jim Gaffigan
Every time Elvis sings, he makes a bargain with the devil -- just like Captain Ahab in MOBY DICK!
— Greil Marcus
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
— Marcus Aurelius
As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, "All mortal greatness is but disease.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck.
— Herman Melville
Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock.
— Herman Melville