Whale Quotes

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. (Gabriel García Márquez)
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. View quote
Jonathan Swift
I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms. View quote
Daniel Handler
Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer, it's probably better to kill and eat one whale than it is to eat fish, chickens, cows, lambs and eggs. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows. View quote
Joseph Campbell
I've wrestled with alligators, I've tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I'm bad. just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I'm so mean, I make medicine sick. View quote
Muhammad Ali
I'm a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl ... leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay. View quote
Björk
What I have against religion is that they start you when you are so defenseless. I mean, I was three when they started pumping this bullshit into my head. I believed in Santa Claus and the Fairy Godmother, of course I believed in a virgin birth, and a guy lived in a whale, and a woman came from a rib. But then something happened that made me doubt all of it: I graduated sixth grade! View quote
Bill Maher
She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale. "DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S BODIES!" Alaska shouted. Now he looked up. "Sorry. Perky breasts." "That's not any better! View quote
John Green (author)
Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? Polonius: By the mass, and ‘tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius: It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet: Or like a whale? Polonius: Very like a whale. View quote
William Shakespeare
Dear Habicht, / Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some inconsequential babble... / What are you up to, you frozen whale, you smoked, dried, canned piece of soul...? (Albert Einstein)
My commitment is to my kids and my mum and I'm having a whale of a time. View quote
Carol Vorderman
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd. View quote
Bill Condon
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. View quote
Bill Condon
Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast. View quote
Bob Kerrey
I live on the beautiful Northern California coast. I have always loved hiking, whale watching and being outdoors. View quote
Christine Feehan
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. View quote
Mark Carwardine
My wife says I'm making a noise like a stranded whale. I think I have a major snoring problem. View quote
Rex Hunt
I think I should have been more ferocious in pursuit of the whale, more cruel to the crew, and I think I'd have a better grasp now of what Melville was talking about. Ahab focused all his energies on avenging himself against the whale, but he was trying to penetrate the mystery of why we are here at all, why there is anything. I wasn't mad enough, not crazy enough, not obsessive enough. I should have done more. ... At the time, I didn't have more in me. View quote
Gregory Peck
It is pretty clear in the Bible story that the whale swallowing Jonah wasn't meant as a punishment from God, it was God saving him from drowning. So it was actually provision to give him a second chance. The whale itself was the start of Jonah's second chance. View quote
Phil Vischer
As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain. (Jim Starlin)
I come from Illinois, corn country. There are so many kinds of corn up there they have to number them. You'd be driving down the highway, you'll see BX65, don't mix it up with XL29, you know, something, blah-blah-blah. But I'll tell you what, folks, you can crossbreed your corn from now till the cows come home, and you'll always get corn. You'll never get a hamster, or a tomato or a whale to grow on that corn stalk, okay? View quote
Kent Hovind
Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you've all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale - way cool. View quote
Spider Robinson
But we, insofar as we have power over the world and over one another, we must learn to do what the leaf and the whale and the wind do of their own nature. We must learn to keep the balance. Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice, we must not act without responsibility. Who am I-though I have the power to do it-to punish and reward, playing with men's destinies? View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
When I read that a "big fish" swallowed Jonah - it does not say whale. That is my recollection of it. A big fish, and I believe it, and I believe in a God who can make a whale and can make a man and make both what He pleases. ... One miracle is just as easy to believe as another. ... It is hard to believe for you, but easy for me. A miracle is a thing performed beyond what man can perform. When you get within the realm of miracles; and it is just as easy to believe the miracle of Jonah as any other miracle in the Bible. View quote
William Jennings Bryan