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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
...her hull might be compared to a fat man on the short end of a lopsided seesaw
— Philbrick, Nathaniel
Soon after, Tom, all of twenty years old, became the only soldier in the Civil War to win two Medals of Honor. In
— Nathaniel Philbrick
Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
— Nathaniel Philbrick
Odd things happen in a battle, and the human heart has strange and gruesome depths and the human brain still stranger shallows;
— Nathaniel Philbrick
Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a 'Terrible Towel.'
— Nathaniel Philbrick
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
Whaling was the oil business of its day.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
This mortal life decays apace How soon the bubble's broke Adam and all his numerous race Are Vanity and Smoke.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
wishing thee a short and prosperous voyage, with a full portion of happiness we remain thy friends. In
— Nathaniel Philbrick
the greatest danger to America's future came from self-serving opportunism masquerading as patriotism. At
— Nathaniel Philbrick
If half of the two thousand warriors fired ten arrows each during the engagement, that would have been a total of ten thousand arrows,
— Nathaniel Philbrick
You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
There was a saying on the island: "[I]t is a pity to spoil a good mate by making him a master.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
I'm a big Stephen King fan.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
Paul Revere Jr., with whom I had lunch at Spanky's Clam Shack in Hyannis, Massachusetts.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
a space of time is a great breeder of myths.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
bloc, effectively guaranteeing that
— Nathaniel Philbrick
Reading 'Moby-Dick' helps you discover how to live.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
at sea, things appear different.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
I'll watch anything, from action to art films.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, "All mortal greatness is but disease.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
I've always known that I had the happy facility of making enemies of any one I ever knew,
— Nathaniel Philbrick
As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
Hope was all that stood between them and death.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
Faint heart never won fair lady," he wrote; "neither did it ever pursue and overtake an Indian village.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.
— Nathaniel Philbrick