Quotes About Captain Ahab

#1. Every time Elvis sings, he makes a bargain with the devil -- just like Captain Ahab in MOBY DICK!

Greil Marcus

#2. She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale.

Stephen King

#3. To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.

Herman Melville

#4. Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived.

Salman Rushdie

#5. Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck.

Herman Melville

#6. As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, "All mortal greatness is but disease.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#7. Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#8. When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare.

John Kasich

#9. It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.

Suzanne Curchod

#10. If a heart breaks and nobody hears it, how do you know if its really broken?

Angela Richardson

#11. Over his ivory-inlaid table, Ahab presided like a mute, maned sea-lion on the white coral beach, surrounded by his warlike but still deferential cubs. In his own proper turn, each officer waited to be served.

Herman Melville

#12. The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.

William Hazlitt

#13. The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition.

Josh Billings

#14. Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock.

Herman Melville

#15. The beauty of personal authenticity can compensate for the lost beauty of our youth.

Marianne Williamson

#16. I just feel so lucky to tell stories and make up stories and share them with people.

Jon M. Chu

#17. One cannot trust a path, because the path is different for each person who takes it. One can only trust a person to choose the path that best represents their values and experiences.

April White

#18. I choose to live in what I think is the greatest country in the world, which is committing horrendous terrorist acts and should stop.

Noam Chomsky

#19. If what we call it science , is making us think that what we know about the universe is normal , then it's not science.

Me

#20. One captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six-inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab.

Herman Melville

#21. They would expect him to be afraid; for his service pursued traitors as the eye of God followed Cain across the desert.

John Le Carre

#22. We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn't embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and all that we have to offer, in the end, is love.

Steve Almond

#23. Don't listen to the voice in your head, but pay close attention to the voice of your heart.

Maria Teresa De Donato