Very Like A Whale Quotes

#1. Very Like a Whale

Ogden Nash

#2. Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?
Polonius: By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.
Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel.
Polonius: It is backed like a weasel.
Hamlet: Or like a whale?
Polonius: Very like a whale.

William Shakespeare

#3. Everybody has fishes in their stomach so does Jiko. But the biggest fish of all belonged to Haruki#1 and it was more like a whale. After she has become a nun, she learned how to open up her heart so that the whale could swim away.

Ruth Ozeki

#4. When you fall in love, when Love really does its worst, it gives you no cause. It swallows you whole. It allows no refusals. Like Jonah only after he had been inside the whale awhile, you may say, if asked, Oh, this is why I am here.

Candice Raquel Lee

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

Lauren Myracle

#6. Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.

Florence King

#7. Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.

Thomas Szasz

#8. Like Jonah in the belly of the whale, Tsukuru had fallen into the bowels of death, one untold day after another, lost in a dark, stagnant void.

Haruki Murakami

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

Brian Skerry

#10. One little known fact: The water that spouts out of a whale's blowhole in such a picturesque way reeks like the most toxic fart imaginable.

Susan Casey

#11. We stared at the odd garment and wondered what it was for. 'What is it?' asked Larry at length. 'It's a bathing costume, of course,' said Mother. 'What on earth did you think it was?' 'It looks like a badly skinned whale,' said Larry, peering at it closely.

Gerald Durrell

#12. She consumed books like a whale eats krill.

Alan Bradley

#13. Well, you know, just some old man all alone. God, I hope I don't end up alone like that. Some pathetic old woman with nobody to go on a whale watch with.

Augusten Burroughs

#14. Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.

Bob Kerrey

#15. Like the whale who swallowed Jonah, we have engulfed all national dishes known to civilized man and made them in delight, if not in name our own.

Louis Pullig De Gouy

#16. My wife says I'm making a noise like a stranded whale. I think I have a major snoring problem.

Rex Hunt

#17. 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

#18. Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you've all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale - way cool.

Spider Robinson

#19. nothing encourages unleashing a torrent of semen like having to fire at the same time as another male.

Marah J. Hardt

#20. Millie's car cornered like a beached whale, and the brakes required brute force to get them to - you know - stop. It explained a lot about my aunt's driving style. The

Joelle Charbonneau

#21. I would like to apologize for the rocking of this boat, but we are currently being humped by a whale.

Andy Parsons

#22. Of erections how few are domed like St. Peter's! of creatures, how few vast as the whale!

Herman Melville

#23. I flew out here on Southwest Airlines. Southwest has a plane that's painted like Shamu the whale from Sea World. Yeah, that'll be easy to find if that went down in the ocean. That'll be nice, when you're trying to get out and a real whale's humping your window.

Robert Schimmel

#24. I have a tattoo on my foot that says 'it's a whale' in Japanese, because Japanese people kill whales. My stuffed whale was like most children's teddy bear. I took it with me everywhere. I slept with it. I couldn't live without my whale.

Skylar Grey

#25. I attempt to surf. I'm not as good as anyone else in the water. I'm more like a beached whale. I just hang out on my board. I can ride, but I get too nervous unless I go with my boyfriend or my trainer. There are too many burly men out there!

Olesya Rulin

#26. He had fallen for Cal like a sperm-whale failing to clear the Grand Canyon on a bicycle.

Jodi Taylor

#27. The gulfing whale was like a dot in the spell. Yet look upon it, and 'twould size and swell To its huge self, and the minutest fish Would pass the very hardest gazer's wish, And show his little eye's anatomy.

William Blake

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

Stephen King

#29. Her corset dropped to the floor, and he swept his hands up to cup her breasts. I'm just ungentlemanly enough to prefer a woman's real flesh, Angel. I like the softness, the fullness of it. If I wanted to feel whalebone, I'd fondle a whale.

Sabrina Jeffries

#30. Lovely Arra Sails,
nectar to all males,
how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale!

Darren Shan

#31. That summer, there was a Name the Babies contest, an annual event organized by the Whale Museum on San Juan Island. A young girl from Bellingham submitted the winning entry. The little orca should be named "Luna", she wrote, because "the whale explores the ocean like the moon explores the Earth.

Michael Parfit

#32. As I began researching butterflies, however, the monarch stood out among all of them. It's the only butterfly - the only insect - that migrates like a bird or a whale!

Mary Alice Monroe

#33. It doesna matter how many things ye do on a farm, there's always more than ye can do. A wonder the place doesna rise up about my ears and swallow me, like Jonah and the whale.

Diana Gabaldon

#34. ...the wires he wore had grown all through him, as the roots of trees replace the flesh of corpses; and the vast coils of the whale's brain wrapped around him like a gray constricting snake. I pitied him: but it was probably stray feedback from the Net...

Raphael Carter

#35. 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

#36. There she blows!-there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!

Herman Melville