Right Whale Quotes

#1. Light doesn't penetrate beneath the surface of the water, so ocean creatures like whales and dolphins and even 800 species of fish communicate by sound. And a North Atlantic right whale can transmit across hundreds of miles.

Rose George

#2. It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices there.

Herman Melville

#3. Oh, the rare old Whale, mid storm and gale In his ocean home will be A giant in might, where might is right And King of the boundless sea - Whale Song

Robert Muldoon

#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. And right in among those sharks was Queequeg; who often pushed them aside with his floundering feet. A thing altogether incredible were it not that attracted by such prey as a dead whale, the otherwise miscellaneously carnivorous shark will seldom touch a

Herman Melville

#6. Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

Henry Ward Beecher

#7. One should learn from the past, but one should not live in the past. My concern is to look to the future, learn from the past, and deal with the present.

George Fernandes

#8. You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.

Chuck Palahniuk

#9. I've learned that in many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness.

Shauna Niequist

#10. Every man and woman present thought how the neatly drawn lines and words upon the maps were in truth ice-covered pools and rivers, silent woods, frozen ditches and high, bare hills and every one of them thought how many sheep and cattle and wild creatures died in this season.

Susanna Clarke

#11. Accountability is not a consequence. In order for it to become your competitive advantage, you must be willing to change what you expect from yourself and others.

Sam Silverstein

#12. I'm not a huge fan of other people's logic.

Richard Kadrey

#13. There's an impotency Viagra can't touch - the inability of a man to speak ...

John Geddes

#14. Like most misery, it started out with apparent happiness. - The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

#15. Mrs. Jones leaned in close. She smelled of wool and peppermint. There's a man somewhere who wanted you to believe in something ...

Alice Hoffman

#16. 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

#17. 'The Squid and the Whale' I shot in 23 days. I would have loved more time for it at the time, but in some ways that kind of kamikaze way of shooting was right for that movie.

Noah Baumbach

#18. If you will not have it thus: if in the pride of power, if in contempt of reason and reliance upon force, you say we shall not go, but shall remain as subjects to you, then, gentlemen of the North, a war is to be inaugurated the like of which men have not seen ...

Jefferson Davis