Quotes About White Whale

#1. The man just opened his mouth, which meant that all kinds of secret doors in his body gave way. He did not sing so much as let his soul free. - Green Shadows, White Whale

Ray Bradbury

#2. The bones cry for the blood of the white whale,
The fat flukes arch and whack about its ears,
The death-lance churns into the sanctuary, tears
The gun-blue swingle, heaving like a flail,
And hacks the coiling life out ...

Robert Lowell

#3. The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating them, till they are left living with half a heart and half a lung.

Herman Melville

#4. Moby Dick, the Great White Whale, tore off Ahab's leg at the knee, when Ahab was attacking him. Quite right, too. Should have torn off both his legs, and a lot more besides.

D.H. Lawrence

#5. I have often been mildly amused when I think that the great American novel was not written about New England or Chicago. It was written about a white whale in the South Pacific.

James A. Michener

#6. Hast seen the white whale?

Herman Melville

#7. The tooth emerged, like a great white whale," he said. "We alerted the press.

Lauren Myracle

#8. Well, the cat is flourishing and gets more spoiled and more beautiful every day. His whiskers measure, from tip to tip, including his mouth and nose, of course, ten inches, pure white whale bone.

Elizabeth Bishop

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

Stephen King

#10. The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.

Gavin O'Connor

#11. That you do, Tink, but you also gotta keep your eyes open or the right one is going to pass you by because you were too busy looking for the white whale. -Phil

Jay Crownover

#12. I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.

Herman Melville

#13. He is my white whale, and I will hunt him to the end of time.

James S.A. Corey

#14. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.

Herman Melville

#15. Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

Noam Chomsky

#16. You are doing something very sacred here, something very daring, during your life upon the earth. You are defining yourself, and then creating yourself anew, in each golden moment of now.

Neale Donald Walsch

#17. I'm not trying to ally myself with the rock stars of the universe.

Sylvie Simmons

#18. Unless you want to fuck me, why do you care what I look like?

Eminem

#19. As, blind and deaf, the whale plunged forward, as if by sheer power of speed to rid himself of the iron leech that had fastened to him; as we thus tore a white gash in the sea,

Herman Melville

#20. Faith does not speak things into existence. It simply sees what is already in existence, though still unseen to those who live by sight alone.

Steve Deneff

#21. I enjoy playing evil, but not one-dimensional evil characters. I like the ebbs and cracks in the armor.

Rodrigo Santoro

#22. My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first.

Rooney Mara

#23. It was a figure of a whale, with a white triangle that was supposed to be its spray. The spray moved up and down above the blowhole. On top of the spray sat a black-haired woman.

Paul Fleischman

#24. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

Rachel Carson