The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua.
I live on the beautiful Northern California coast. I have always loved hiking, whale watching and being outdoors.
Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.
Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..
[the whale groans] Dory: Okay, he either said, "move to the back of the throat," or he "wants a root beer float".
Koro: Wise leader, forgive me. I am only a fledgling new to flight.
Koro: When you extend your tongues, you're saying to your enemies: I'm gonna eat you.
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us.
Miette: One? [One grunts] Miette: You asleep? [One breathes deeply and mumbles] Miette: What did you do before? One: One sailor. Harpooned Whales. One night [pauses] One: One hear whales singing. After [gestures throwing of harpoon] One: always alway...
Seaman Jones: [Jonesy is teaching Beaumont] Hear it now? Beaumont: [resigned] No. Seaman Jones: Beaumont, at Caltech we used to do this in our sleep! You hear it now? Beaumont: Wait a minute... Seaman Jones: Uh oh... Beaumont: Disparaged surface clut...
In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.
You can’t believe how bleeding scary the sea is! There’s, like, whales and storms and shit! They don’t bloody tell you that!
Thanks to a lot of people, not just myself, 'Whale Rider' had an amazing impact emotionally, and people remember it. I count myself very lucky that all those doors were unlocked, I just had to open them.
Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich
If asked which words one associated with the Sahara, only the most dedicated surrealist might be expected to offer "whale".
They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business.
I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty.
An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.
Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Have you lost your mind? What have I told you Charlie about whales? You can’t MANHANDLE THEM!
