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My commitment is to my kids and my mum and I'm having a whale of a time. — Carol Vorderman

They would appear," said Ford doubtfully, "to have turned into a bowl of petunias and a very surprised-looking whale — Douglas Adams

Like Jonah in the belly of the whale, Tsukuru had fallen into the bowels of death, one untold day after another, lost in a dark, stagnant void. — Haruki Murakami

I would like to apologize for the rocking of this boat, but we are currently being humped by a whale. — Andy Parsons

He had fallen for Cal like a sperm-whale failing to clear the Grand Canyon on a bicycle. — Jodi Taylor

She would hang a sign in the restaurant window--Owt to luntsch. Bee bak in a whale. For she could not spell either. — Marguerite Young

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful. — Bill Condon

So concisely, musically we are the herb
So sit back and light me.
Inhale ...
My style's kinda fat, reminiscent of a whale. — Q-Tip

Foreign food isn't really my thing. I tasted whale once, and I was sick for a week. — Steen Langstrup

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. — Herman Melville

Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish. — Thomas Szasz

It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me. — Herman Melville

*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

If you are looking for a whale you cannot search for a whale in a pond. You must go to deep waters. — Prashant Iyengar

It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices there. — Herman Melville

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

She consumed books like a whale eats krill. — Alan Bradley

I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

That's one way to get rid of hallucinations...send them out for groceries. — Maury Chaykin

She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale. — Stephen King

The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species. — Dave Barry

In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot. — Douglas Adams

I slipped on through, slicker than whale shit through an ice floe. — Cherie Priest

My heart's bigger than a blue whale's, which needs its own parking spot. — Jandy Nelson

And one rose in a tent of sea and gave
A darkening shudder; water fell away;
The whale stood shining, and then sank in spray. — Yvor Winters

Very Like a Whale — Ogden Nash

You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there. — Oscar Isaac

Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow. — P.T. Barnum

We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale. — John Hope

God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell. — Adam Sandler

One little known fact: The water that spouts out of a whale's blowhole in such a picturesque way reeks like the most toxic fart imaginable. — Susan Casey

God, I understand whale anatomy. Can we move on now, Herman? — John Green

Of erections how few are domed like St. Peter's! of creatures, how few vast as the whale! — Herman Melville

If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it. — William Jennings Bryan

Shearwater sighed, like a whale in the night. — Aldous Huxley

The shark is fierce, the whale is mighty, but the ocean is both. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The arrow that pierces the deer only scratches a whale. — Matshona Dhliwayo

There she blows!-there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick! — Herman Melville

The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature. — Benjamin Franklin

I never worried about being a whale stalker before. I promise to leave them unmolested from now on. — Eileen Cook

As long as there is a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Sea Shepherd crew will continue to patrol and defend it. — Paul Watson

I live on the beautiful Northern California coast. I have always loved hiking, whale watching and being outdoors. — Christine Feehan

A whale has nowhere to hide in a river. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish ... to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
Outside The Whale (Granta, 1984) — Salman Rushdie

They named me Kristin after some whale scientist in Australia, worked on the original translation team. — Richard K. Morgan

Now, art thou the man to pitch a harpoon down a live whale's throat, and then jump after it? Answer, quick! — Herman Melville

A whale out of water is over-run by ants. — Laozi

Like the whale who swallowed Jonah, we have engulfed all national dishes known to civilized man and made them in delight, if not in name our own. — Louis Pullig De Gouy

To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme. — Paul Watson

For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

this whale carries the everlasting mail! — Herman Melville

So say you are charged with, you and some of your colleagues, lifting a heavy dead whale carcass onto a flatbed. — George Saunders

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter. — Tori Amos

The whale has no famous author, and whaling no famous chronicler, you will say. — Herman Melville

You cannot catch a whale and a fish with the same bait. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I had whale tartare when I was in Japan, but I probably wouldn't have it again. — Sasha Cohen

I went whale watching once. It was very similar to watching people on a boat become disappointed. — Demetri Martin

If Jonah had gone to Yale,
Instead of the gut of a whale,
He'd have a diploma,
A better aroma,
And a nice little condo in Vail. — M.J. McGuire

The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua. — Lawrence M. Krauss

How can you get giants out of a dwarf, my good chap? Can a thrush lay eagle's egg? Can a dolphin give birth to a whale? — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A dork is a whale's penis. — Jill Shalvis

Dudley had reached roughly the size and weight of a young killer whale. — J.K. Rowling

No matter how deep the whale swims, it will always surface. — Matshona Dhliwayo

We were still on the whale road, in the wind that keened and thrummed the ropes. — Robert Low

I will not watch a whale die. I've not seen a whale die since I left Greenpeace in 1977. — Paul Watson

Spain- a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe. — Elizabeth Oakes Smith

Positive thoughts (expectations) can change perspective, transform behaviors, and attract good fortune. — Donna M. McDine

Save the gerund and screw the whale. — Tom Stoppard

Hast seen the white whale? — Herman Melville

Then go to my room where solitude gaped whale-jawed wide to swallow me entire. — Maya Angelou

I have the confidence of a killer whale, but being shot down by these losers stings. — Victoria Scott

What up you guys, I'm back! — Jackson Lanzing

Shoes off in the whale! And don't try and make a break for the anus. — Christopher Moore

Even a whale is concealed by darkness. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Lovely Arra Sails,
nectar to all males,
how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale! — Darren Shan

Below us somewhere in the gelatinous phantasmagoria of churning blue, the whales wouldn't be much aware of the storm. — Diane Ackerman

Most whale photos you see show whales in this beautiful blue water - it's almost like space. — Brian Skerry

The tooth emerged, like a great white whale," he said. "We alerted the press. — Lauren Myracle

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion ... would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. — John Adams

I tell you, the sperm whale will stand no nonsense. — Herman Melville

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe. — Edmund Burke

Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich — John Green

I felt as conspicuous as a baby whale in a goldfish pond. — Stephen King

What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language? — John Vaillant

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking? — Paul Watson

Amy called the whale punkin. — Christopher Moore

Don't whale it too much a' Lord's days, men; but don't miss a fair chance either, that's rejecting Heaven's good gifts. — Herman Melville

nothing encourages unleashing a torrent of semen like having to fire at the same time as another male. — Marah J. Hardt

I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness. — Paul Watson

The fin whale is the second largest whale species on Earth, weighing up to 80 tons. — Pierce Brosnan

Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast. — Bob Kerrey

My wife says I'm making a noise like a stranded whale. I think I have a major snoring problem. — Rex Hunt

You have two choices in life; either to be a pick or you chose to be a whale — Hisham Fawzi

Adverse winds are holding mad Christmas in him, boys. — Herman Melville

He is my white whale, and I will hunt him to the end of time. — James S.A. Corey

By now it's got as much in common with its origins as a humpback whale would have with the sperm cells from a therapsid lizard. Still, — Peter Watts

I have no personal agenda in whether or not a library keeps 'Whale Talk' or 'Athletic Shorts' or any of my books shelved. — Chris Crutcher

If your great-great-great-grandfather wanted to read his book after dark, some poor soul had to crawl around in a whale's head for an afternoon. — Steven Johnson

I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present. — Bill Condon