Whale Quotes
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Whale Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
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
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
And one rose in a tent of sea and gaveA darkening shudder; water fell away;
The whale stood shining, and then sank in spray. — Yvor Winters
Very Like a Whale
— Ogden Nash
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
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
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
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
You cannot catch a whale and a fish with the same bait.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
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
No matter how deep the whale swims, it will always surface.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
