Top 27 Harpoon Quotes
#1. A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
Anne Carson
#2. Or like a poet woo the Moon,
Riding an armchair for my steed,
And with a flashing pen harpoon
Terrific metaphors of speed.
Roy Campbell
#3. Now, art thou the man to pitch a harpoon down a live whale's throat, and then jump after it? Answer, quick!
Herman Melville
#4. Overhead soft-bellied clouds panic toward the horizon like whales before the harpoon, and the wind runs addict's fingers through the trees that line the street.
Richard K. Morgan
#5. Ma'am, please," the older man said, sparing a brief glance up at the heavens. "If I may, I would far prefer death by harpoon to death by grappling hook. Less of a mess for the men to clean up after, believe me.
Alexandra Bracken
#6. Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#7. 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.
Loretta Chase
#8. to catch it called for harpooning it - which was Ned Land's business; to harpoon it called for sighting it - which was the crew's business; and to sight it called for encountering it - which was a chancy business.
Jules Verne
#9. We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.
John Hope
#10. When a chainsaw rips into a 2,000 year old redwood tree, it's ripping into my guts. When a bulldozer plows through the Amazon rainforest, it's ripping through my side. And when a Japanese whaling ship fires an exploding harpoon into a great whale it's my heart that's being blown to smithereens.
David Foreman
#11. So I'm at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon.
Emo Philips
#12. Well, the bad news," Swedish said from the wheel, "is that Chess still thinks he's funny."
"What's the good news?" Loretta asked, leaning on our little copper-tubed harpoon. "That Kodoc dropped a bomb on the city?
Joel N. Ross
#13. Tell me my heart beats a war drum
that my eyes are not just armies
but my spine
is a harpoon.
Buddy Wakefield
#14. You know what really keeps your staff on their toes? A harpoon gun.
Daniel Tosh
#15. Never approach a crying woman entering a sports bar carrying a harpoon gun.
George Carlin
#16. Fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset. And that harpoon - so like a corkscrew now - was flung
Herman Melville
#17. A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.
Homer
#19. I was single for six years and during those six years I went back to college and got my degree in Social Work and then ... while I was single ... Barney came here to Portsmouth on vacation.
Betty Hill
#20. I could smell an arrogance,
it was my cheap fragrance.
Toba Beta
#21. Anytime you make someone laugh or satirize something, it's the best way to change someone's opinion because they're defenseless - they laugh, they listen.
John Waters
#22. We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual
Paul Ricoeur
#24. Honor yourself first and you will discover the boundless breadth of your Passion Zone.
Heidi Reagan
#25. The workers of Europe ought to henceforth declare themselves as a class a human impossibility ... they ought to inaugurate within the European beehive an age of a great swarming-out such as has never been seen before
Friedrich Nietzsche
#26. The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.
Oliver Goldsmith
#27. Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.
David Wilkerson
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