Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'
I got some tartar control toothpaste. I still have tartar, but that stuff's under control. I got so much tartar, I don't have to dip my fish sticks in anything. That's actually kind of gross. After that joke, I have to clarify that I'm just joking.
Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.
When I go on vacation, I take very few clothes and a whole lot of books. It's the most soothing thing in the world. Reading 'Moby-Dick' is like being in a time machine. I almost feel as excited as the first time I read it and I always find something new.
'Moby-Dick' really threw me. I read it when I was 14 and my best friends were books. It changed the way I looked at the world.
I grew up peeling shrimp and making tartar sauce.
My favorite restaurant in the Twin Cities is McDonalds. I order two cheeseburgers, two snack wraps with no sauce, two fish fillets with cheese and light tartar sauce, two large fries, two apple pies, and one large milkshake.
Reading 'Moby-Dick' helps you discover how to live.
'Baltimore' the series is inspired by all kinds of things, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Dracula.'
Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing.
In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.
'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.