Top 228 Whale Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 18, 2024.
Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.
I really am part whale. I want to do a movie like 'The Incredible Mr. Limpet' and join a family of whales.
For my part, I hold it equally impossible for a small shellfish to be produced without generation as for a whale to have its origin from the mud.
I have these rhyme-based ideas because I love Julia Donaldson. 'The Snail and the Whale' is one of the most beautiful poems, and I feel like I could do that.
So concisely, musically we are the herb
So sit back and light me.
Inhale...
My style's kinda fat, reminiscent of a whale.
I'm more of a fisherman as opposed to a scientist perhaps and chasing the whale. But I've had some success.
Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.
I have no personal agenda in whether or not a library keeps 'Whale Talk' or 'Athletic Shorts' or any of my books shelved.
Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
When I made 'Whale Rider' - of course, I'm not Maori and have no business, as a white girl, telling people how to be in this movie - I started by learning the language, as best I could.
In 1939, Orwell wrote a long essay titled 'Inside the Whale,' about modernism, the nineteen-thirties, Henry Miller, and 'Tropic of Cancer.'
I live on the beautiful Northern California coast. I have always loved hiking, whale watching and being outdoors.
To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme.
Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.
A dark room with some low-level whale music and a flat bed and a woman pulling your shoulder back and forth is a happy place.
In 'Finding Dory,' I play a whale shark named Destiny who can't swim very well. We're both extremely clumsy!
Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale... from hell's heart I stab at thee.
God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.
Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.
As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain.
Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.
I bought a midnight blue Porsch with a whale tail when I was winning big one time in L.A. That car was fast, fast, fast!
People think it's very strange because I love whale watching - you don't see whales a lot where I'm from.
I'd like to play the whale in 'Moby Dick.' If I keep eating, I may end up getting there.
I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.
Filmmaking has been my love since my mother brought me to see James Whale's 'Frankenstein' at the local library at the age of six.
With every film I've made, 'Whale Rider' included, I've had a vision that was far bigger than the budget allowed.
In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.
Shamu the killer whale is Sea World's Mickey Mouse; whales named Shamu are the star attractions of three parks and the focus of their marketing efforts.
Divine was like a 400-pound beached whale. He was one of my favorite leading ladies, I've got to tell you. He was really terrific.
'Whale Rider' was quite an extraordinary shoot. We were in that community on the east coast and so much of what you see in that film was very present.
We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.
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.
The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.
I had a dream about building a house on a dock, composed from 100 triangles. You'd have to sail from room to room. And maybe the entrance would be the mouth of a whale.
It's really sad that you have more infomercials on TV to adopt a dog or a cat, or save a whale, then you do millions of flesh and blood human beings.
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.
There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.
To have a huge, friendly whale willingly approach your boat and look you straight in the eye is without doubt one of the most extraordinary experiences on the planet.
I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.
As I began researching butterflies, however, the monarch stood out among all of them. It's the only butterfly - the only insect - that migrates like a bird or a whale!
To me, these biblical stories are just so many fish stories, and I'm not specifically referring to Jonah and the whale. I need indisputable proof of anything I'm asked to believe.
We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.
My wife says I'm making a noise like a stranded whale. I think I have a major snoring problem.
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.
The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua.
My favorite wild animal is a narwhal - the unicorn of the sea. It’s a whale with a tooth that sticks out of its head that’s almost two-thirds the length of its entire body.
Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.
Most whale photos you see show whales in this beautiful blue water - it's almost like space.
Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing back in Los Angeles, but when you look out there... How can you complain when you see a whale cresting, matter-of-factly, as you make your breakfast?
I went whale watching once. It was very similar to watching people on a boat become disappointed.
And one rose in a tent of sea and gave
A darkening shudder; water fell away;
The whale stood shining, and then sank in spray.
Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking?
Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.
What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?
As long as there is a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Sea Shepherd crew will continue to patrol and defend it.
On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath me. It was a graveyard from the whaling some time in the 1920s-30s.
I made 'Whale Rider', I saw that to be specific and authentic is to be universal, and I've continued to work in an identical way ever since.
Lovely Arra Sails,
nectar to all males,
how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale!
