Quotes of: Whaling Keyword

New England waters are some of my favorite - they are some of the richest waters because they are temperate waters and nutrient-rich, and therefore provide food for so many animals, from giant whales to sharks to everything else.

Brian Skerry

Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.

Edward M. Lerner

They are a fairly aggressive conservation organization that was started to protect the great whales particularly, but in general all marine life around the world. So those are the people I'm trying to attach my name to.

Richard Dean Anderson

I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.

Iggy Pop

'The Squid and the Whale' I shot in 23 days. I would have loved more time for it at the time, but in some ways that kind of kamikaze way of shooting was right for that movie.

Noah Baumbach

Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and j...

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

J.M. Barrie: [gives him a journal] Here you go. Peter Llewelyn Davies: What's this? J.M. Barrie: All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title. Open it. Peter Llewelyn Davies: [reads] "The Boy Castaways: Being a record o...

Finding Neverland

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

Doctor Sleep

Why save the rainforest, the whales, or the world when you can devote your time to saving syllables?

It Started with a Dare

Telling yourself you like the way you look is easy. Believing it is an entirely different kettle of whales.

The Impressionists

Strangest problems of life seem clearing; but clouds sweep between--Is my journey’s end coming?

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Were I the wind, I'd blow no more on such a wicked, miserable world.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

...the chapters on whaling in MOBY DICK can be omitted by all but the most punishment-loving readers.

The Princess Bride

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

Whale Talk

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

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

Rex Hunt

I don’t want a single öre from that pig.” “Then give the money to Greenpeace or something.” “I don’t give a shit about whales.

Steig Larsson

We are not what we might be; what we are / Outlaws all extrapolation / Beyond the interval of now and here: / White whales are gone with the white ocean.

Sylvia Plath

As you know, the fossil record includes not only the ancestors of crocodiles and whales, but also the ancestors of human beings. And this, of course, is why evolution remains controversial.

Kenneth R. Miller