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One faction views SeaWorld as a Garden Hilton for killer whales, and the other views it as a Hanoi Hilton for killer whales.
— David Kirby
Kings also sleep; but the clever ones, with one eye open, just like dolphins and whales.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Some of these tusks have been found buried in the bodies of whales, which the unicorn always attacks with success.
— Jules Verne
I've long been a fan of IMAX nature documentaries, but Humpback Whales, directed by Greg MacGillivray, is something special.
— Joe Morgenstern
As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain.
— Jim Starlin
I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.
— Steven Tyler
Actually, orcas aren't quite as complex as scientists imagine. Most killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car.
— Christopher Moore
We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.
— Pierce Brosnan
All of the great whales are endangered.
— Paul Watson
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
I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.
— Nicolas Cage
It's all in the opposition of the thumbs. For all we know, whales sing in three act plays - but they can't write them down.
— Bronwen Wallace
I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whales who come up and spout off get harpooned.
— Henry Kravis
Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale ... from hell's heart I stab at thee.
— Herman Melville
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
The great white sharks with their rough, pale sides, the killer whales striped in black and white like an Edwardian garden chaise.
— Cassandra Clare
The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.
— Gregory Colbert
Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.
— P.T. Barnum
They would emerge a short distance away, sometimes three or four of them, a short lived archipelago of volcanic islands.
— Yann Martel
Whatever bro, tell it to the whales
— Max Brooks
I went whale watching once. It was very similar to watching people on a boat become disappointed.
— Demetri Martin
Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.
— Florence King
Oh, are you from Wales? Do you know a fella named Jonah-He used to live in whales for a while
— Groucho Marx
Aye, aye, it must be so. I've oversailed him. How, got the start? Aye, he's chasing ME now; not I, HIMthat's bad — Herman Melville
I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.
— George Gaylord Simpson
In trees, monkeys rule;on land, lions rule;
in the sky, eagles rule;
in the waters, whales rule. — Matshona Dhliwayo
To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme.
— Paul Watson
I can assure you no whales are going to be killed today.
— Paul Watson
In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece.
— Herman Melville
Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.
— Romare Bearden
I'm a Pisces but I'd rather be a killa whale.
— Andre Nickatina
Telling yourself you like the way you look is easy. Believing it is an entirely different kettle of whales.
— Andrew Biss
The oceans are thought to contain of the order of 4x1030 viruses, equivalent in mass to 75 million blue whales.
— Franklin M. Harold
Ships are expendable; the whales are not.
— Paul Watson
I deny their credentials as whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit the Kingdom of Cetology.
— Herman Melville
Even the small poems mean something. they are often whales in the bodies of tiny fish.
— Nayyirah Waheed
I'm more of a fisherman as opposed to a scientist perhaps and chasing the whale. But I've had some success.
— Matt Walsh
Barrage balloons dotted the sky like blind whales bobbing around in the wrong element.
— Kate Atkinson
Why save the rainforest, the whales, or the world when you can devote your time to saving syllables?
— Lindsay Faith Rech
Save the gerund and screw the whale.
— Tom Stoppard
New Zealand totally rejects Japan's proposals to double the number of whales slaughtered in the Southern Ocean
— Chris Carter
Fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset. And that harpoon - so like a corkscrew now - was flung
— Herman Melville
I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people.
— Paul Watson
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.
— Sri Yukteswar Giri
And God created great whales.- genesis. — Herman Melville
They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.
— Cormac McCarthy
But you reassure yourself that at least here they are safe from baleen whales and oil slicks and cocktail sauce.
— Carl Sagan
Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.
— Jane Velez-Mitchell
Below us somewhere in the gelatinous phantasmagoria of churning blue, the whales wouldn't be much aware of the storm.
— Diane Ackerman
We are not whales - and this constitutes one great theme underscoring our sex life.
— Haruki Murakami
All killer whales are named Kevin. You knew that, right?
— Christopher Moore
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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
Most whale photos you see show whales in this beautiful blue water - it's almost like space.
— Brian Skerry
Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?
— Charles Saatchi
Sleeping AtlantisSilent cool waters
dancing upon her skin ~
silent cool water
ushering dreams within... — Muse
My clients are the whales and the seals.
— Paul Watson
Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
— Edmund Burke
Whales and dolphins have been aquatic for about 70 million years and seals for between 25 and 30 million years.
— Elaine Morgan
It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.
— Paul McCartney
Have you lost your mind? What have I told you Charlie about whales? You can't MANHANDLE THEM!
— Erica Sehyun Song
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
My position is this. If we can't protect sanctuaries, if we can't save the whales, the sharks, the fish, our oceans will die.
— Paul Watson
Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.
— Matthew Arnold
Spain- a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.
— Elizabeth Oakes Smith
