Whalemen Quotes

#1. Think of that, ye loyal Britons! we whalemen supply your kings and queens with coronation stuff!

Herman Melville

#2. *The ancient whale-cry upon first sighting a whale from the mast-head, still used by whalemen in hunting the famous Gallipagos terrapin.

Herman Melville

#3. How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how ... If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.

William, Saroyan

#4. Sometimes you have to search for inspiration with characters, and other times, they just drop out of the sky and arrive.

Dylan McDermott

#5. I have a lot of money.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. Faith is throwing yourself into the arms of the unknown and trusting that you will be safe in the hands of that monster

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#7. The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.

Warwick Davis

#8. The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.

Mahmoud Mohammed Taha

#9. The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.

Louise L. Hay

#10. At times we gasped for breath at an elevation beyond the albatross
at times became dizzy with the velocity of our descent into some watery hell, where the air grew stagnant, and no sound disturbed the slumbers of the kraken.

Edgar Allan Poe

#11. [Richard] remembered asking Tommy once why he didn't want to transition into a woman.
"And lose my cock, balls and prostate? Are you kidding me? Honey, I'm still all man. I'm just a man with decoration."
Tommy Wilkins, A Very Tate Christmas (Tate Pack #3)

Vicktor Alexander

#12. It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

James F. Cooper

#13. I have reasons to believe that I could win the World Cup, but I take it one race at a time.

Marcel Hirscher

#14. He felt it coming. He needed to be more to this woman than just the guy who showed up begging her to sing his songs. He...
He had no time to make a move before she came across the cab and planted her lips against his.

Bernadette Marie

#15. I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.

Giordano Bruno

#16. The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

A.R. Rahman

#17. During my 'difficult teens,' I read about worlds that were mysterious.

Beeban Kidron