Top 12 Whaleman Quotes
#1. Perseus, St. George, Hercules, Jonah, and Vishnoo! there's a member-roll for you! What club but the whaleman's can head off like that?
Herman Melville
#2. The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#3. Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
Ilya Ehrenburg
#4. In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
Deepak Chopra
#5. I am so proud to be from New Orleans and to be one of those people who had been displaced. I wasn't there during that time, but that's where I come from, that kind of poverty, and I'm very, very proud of that because it's given me my history.
Tyler Perry
#7. When I was younger, I did lots of plays, put on shows for Mum and Dad, made my brother dress up in ridiculous tutus and whatnot to perform in front of them. I think my pre-primary report was like, 'Has a flair for drama' - it was just a little side note.
Olivia DeJonge
#8. Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
B.F. Skinner
#9. At least you know that you're crazy. That means you have the potential to recover.
Mira Grant
#10. I don't want anyone to do anything except come run, party, dance, eat, and hang with us. Running isn't about making people buy stuff. Running should be free, man.
Micah True
#11. Only a few things in life matter a little. The rest don't matter at all.
John Cleese
#12. I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the Vault in less than three days after I am dead ... Tis well.
George Washington