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I think I'm a bit like Ishmael in 'Moby Dick': a story teller and an observer in his own crisis.

Mark Kurlansky

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Mark Kurlansky
American - Journalist
Born: December 7, 1948

The great lesson I get from 'Moby-Dick' is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still ways to go about living. It's through Ishmael that I find a kind of overall cosmic approach to a meaningful life in this meaningless world.

Nathaniel Philbrick

Then there are actors my age like Ethan Hawke, he's in 'Moby Dick,' I love his work. I've been lucky. Alfred Molina, he has real class.

Billy Boyd

I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing.

Chad Harbach

I'd like to play the whale in 'Moby Dick.' If I keep eating, I may end up getting there.

Richard Jenkins

Reading 'Moby-Dick' helps you discover how to live.

Nathaniel Philbrick

I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, but Melville was a drunk who beat his wife. 'Moveable Feast' by Hemingway, but I would not like him personally. He was a stupid macho person who believed in shooting animals for fun, but that book was incredible!

Gary Paulsen

'Baltimore' the series is inspired by all kinds of things, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Dracula.'

Christopher Golden

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

Zig Ziglar

Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.

Chad Harbach

Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

Nathaniel Philbrick

I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.

Nathaniel Philbrick

I don't think anyone could be the next Dick Vitale. I mean that in a good way. More than an announcer, Dick is an ambassador for the game. Dick is in class by himself. Like what he does or not, what he has done to expand the popularity of college basketball is phenomenal.

Stan Van Gundy

In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.

Garth Risk Hallberg

I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.

Zig Ziglar

'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.

Nathaniel Philbrick

Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.

Nathaniel Philbrick

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