Quotes About Blue Whales

#1. America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these.

Simon Hoggart

#2. The oceans are thought to contain of the order of 4x1030 viruses, equivalent in mass to 75 million blue whales.

Franklin M. Harold

#3. When the moon gets bored, it kills whales. Blue whales and fin whales and humpback, sperm, and orca whales: centrifugal forces don't discriminate.

Marina Keegan

#4. The redwoods you can see in Muir Woods are nothing like the redwood titans that stand in the rainforest valleys of the North Coast, closer to Oregon. These are the dreadnoughts of trees, the blue whales of the plant kingdom.

Richard Preston

#5. Below us somewhere in the gelatinous phantasmagoria of churning blue, the whales wouldn't be much aware of the storm.

Diane Ackerman

#6. It is hard to give up what you know for what you don't know.

Gloria Whelan

#7. Ten million years will not put a strain on the clock of eternity.

Leonard Ravenhill

#8. I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth.

Norton Juster

#9. Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.

Charles Buxton

#10. My nervous energy is usually the easiest form of energy to tap into.

Heath Ledger

#11. Most whale photos you see show whales in this beautiful blue water - it's almost like space.

Brian Skerry

#12. Something Mama liked to say: I love Jesus, but some of his representatives sure make my ass tired.

Edward Kelsey Moore

#13. Coco Chanel used to talk about wearing more than one string of pearls. Why wear one if you can wear two, or something to that effect. I think that one string of pearls is just fine. But that's because my pearls are black, hers were white.

C. JoyBell C.

#14. A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.

Petronius

#15. Where are your combing seas, your blue water, your rollers, your breakers, your whales, or your waterspouts, and your endless motion, in this bit of a forest, child?

Walt Whitman

#16. Man's freedom comes through fulfilling his destiny, bringing into manifestation the Divine Design of his life.

Florence Scovel Shinn

#17. Everyone else on the planet, from the lowest amoebae to the great blue whale, expresses all their component elements in a perfect dance with the world around them. Only human beings have unfulfilled lives.

Nicholas Lore

#18. Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere.

John Green

#19. The poor are the blacks of Europe.

Nicolas Chamfort

#20. The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out of the blue, started singing. And the voice, you can hear how uncomfortable I am with it, and how terrified I am with it.

Joanna Newsom

#21. Sometimes I feel like tap-dancing, screeching, unscrewing light bulbs, pulling curtains, combing hair, doing knee bends, handstands and turning somersaults out there.

Ilie Nastase

#22. p.i.a.: puke inducing actions.

Christin Lovell