Harpoon Quotes

So I'm at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon. (Emo Philips)
.. I tell you Dain is a splendid catch. I advise you to set your hooks and reel him in.” Jessica took a long swallow of her cognac. "This is not a trout, Genevieve. This is a great, hungry shark.” "Then use a harpoon. View quote
Loretta Chase
Never mind what you were doing, Olaf said. You're fired! You can't fire me! Esme growled. I quit! Well, you can leave by mutual agreement, Olaf grumbled and then with another succinct Ha! he lifted the harpoon gun and pointed it at Dewey Denouement. View quote
Daniel Handler
The capitalist has no heart, but harpoon him in the pocketbook and you will draw blood. View quote
Bill Haywood
Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
It was my lot to plant the harpoon of algebraic topology into the body of the whale of algebraic geometry. View quote
Solomon Lefschetz
We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale. View quote
John Hope
Captain Ahab was a man possessed with an obsessional drive to pursue the white whale which had harmed him - which had torn his leg out - to the ends of the Earth, no matter what happened. In the final scene of the novel, Captain Ahab is being borne out to sea, wrapped around the white whale with the rope of his own harpoon and going obviously to his death. It was a scene of almost suicidal finality. View quote
Edward Said
Like a great big meaty stew,' Gallimard of the 32nd kept saying. In the sauce-coloured Nile blown corpses floated gently seaward, to be fished out with bent bayonets. There were good pickings here, since each Mameluke carried his gold about him. On the shore lay ornate pommels, daggers, pistols, all encrusted with pearl and jewels, worth a fucking fortune....he started to harpoon out a sogged and bloated dreaming Mameluke or Turk or whatever he was. 'Poor bugger's in paradise now, drinking sherbet, poor bugger. View quote
Anthony Burgess
An angel, maybe, Cochran thought, but one with a harpoon rather than a harp. View quote
Tim Powers