Whales famous quotes

He: "Whale you be my valentine?" She: "Dolphinitely.
-- Adam Young

#Valentine #Whales #Wordplay

...is it surprising that today we have become so morally blind (for wickedness blinds) that we save the baby whales at great cost, and murder millions of unborn children?
-- Alice von Hildebrand

#Baby #Children #Whales

There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom living; there are the hosts of different invertebrate creatures on the sea-floor; and there are those almost grotesque forms of pelagic life in the oceans depths. Then there are the squids and cuttlefish, and the porpoises, dolphins and great whales.
-- Alister Hardy

#Ocean #Squids #Whales

Man’s usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. … Academies should return to wisdom study in tree groves rather than robot study in plastic cells
-- Allen Ginsberg

#Men #Whales #Cells

I'm a Pisces but I'd rather be a killa whale.
-- Andre Nickatina

#Whales #Hip Hop #Pisces

How come Aquaman can control whales? They’re mammals! Makes no sense.
-- Andy Weir

#Whales #Mammals

What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn't us? What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects; we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue.
-- Annie Dillard

#Blue #Whales #Differences

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
-- Bill Condon

#Whales #Crowds #Kind

I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.
-- Bill Condon

#Past #Whales #Connections

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
-- Bill Condon

#Successful #Whales #Wonderful

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Whales #Ants #Fine

Seeing the whales off James Price Point, mothers, babies, bull whales, seeing the count, going up into the thousands of these whales, the assurance that they will be ok with a mega port, mega ships and a huge factory ashore, is now clearly proven wrong.
-- Bob Brown

#Mother #Baby #Whales

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

#Whales #Beast #Eternity

CSPS is a breath of musical fresh air. With a whale sized hooks and neck wrenching riffs you’ll have more than you need to fall head first into this band’s fanbase. Take a listen and see what all the fuss is about. I’m sure that if the bone tight rhythm section doesn’t lock you in, the finely spun lyric and melody will surely ensnare even the pickiest of musical palette.
-- Brett Hestla

#Fall #Air #Whales

My commitment is to my kids and my mum and I'm having a whale of a time.
-- Carol Vorderman

#Kids #Commitment #Whales

Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?
-- Charles Saatchi

#Swimming #Whales #People

But I'll never see any of those fish," said Maxie."Or those whales. Or any lions or tigers. I'm never going to set foot in a rain forest now, am I? I won't even be able to watch old DVD's about them without electricity. What does the future hold? It's like going back to the middle ages. Nobody knowing what was going on beyond their front doorstep. All I'll ever know is this. This little bit of London.
-- Charlie Higson

#Rain #Dvds #Whales

I live on the beautiful Northern California coast. I have always loved hiking, whale watching and being outdoors.
-- Christine Feehan

#Beautiful #Whales #California

Culture, which by definition serves no purpose, has now found a role as the consort of business. Right off the bat we have a beached whale, since there is nothing that disdains culture as much as business does. ... In fact, 'corporate culture' is nothing more than the crystallization of the stupidity of a group of people at a given moment.
-- Corinne Maier

#Business #Whales #People

Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.
-- Craig Clevenger

#Angel #Men #Whales

The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.
-- Daniel Quinn

#Whales #Water #Lilies

Lovely Arra Sails, nectar to all males, how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale!
-- Darren Shan

#Whales #Lovely #Males

My songs emerge unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own...We have, all of us, over the years, written things that responded to the world as it slapped us in the face. Me and Nash, singing "To the Last Whale" and "Find the Cost of Freedom". Stills coming up with "For What It's Worth". These came right out of the news. People have accused us of taking stances and the truth is we don't.
-- David Crosby

#Song #Years #Whales

You can’t take everything on. That’s why when people ask how does this film fit into my oeuvre. I say 'I don’t know. I don’t think in those terms’. If I did, I might become incapacitated by fear . . . How do you eat a whale? One bite at a time. How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.
-- David Fincher

#Thinking #Whales #People

In my opinion the separation of the c- and ac-stars is the most important advancement in stellar classification since the trials by Vogel and Secchi ... To neglect the c-properties in classifying stellar spectra, I think, is nearly the same thing as if a zoologist, who has detected the deciding differences between a whale and a fish, would continue classifying them together.
-- Ejnar Hertzsprung

#Stars #Thinking #Whales

I've never been one for religion, but yet I've never been what ye could call an unbeliever. What I say is, nothin' don't seem impossible once you've clapped eyes on a whale.
-- Elizabeth Goudge

#Eye #Whales #Impossible

Spain- a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.
-- Elizabeth Oakes Smith

#Europe #Whales #Spain

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#Home #Whales #Wife

I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.
-- George Gaylord Simpson

#Whales #Reason

For what are the whales being killed? For a few hundred jobs and products that are not needed, since there are cheap substitutes. If this continues, it will be the end of living and the beginning of survival. The world is being totaled.
-- George Schaller

#Jobs #Whales #Survival

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

#Mother #Thinking #Whales

The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.
-- Gregory Colbert

#Song #Whales #Answers

Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express their relationship with nature. Ashes and Snow is a 21st-century bestiary filled with species from around the world. Nature’s orchestra includes not just Homo sapiens but elephants, whales, manatees, eagles, cheetahs, orangutans, and many others.
-- Gregory Colbert

#Eagles #Whales #Elephants

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
-- Herman Melville

#College #Yale #Whales

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
-- Herman Melville

#Dream #Blessing #Whales

I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
-- Iggy Pop

#Believe #Boys #Whales

Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer, it's probably better to kill and eat one whale than it is to eat fish, chickens, cows, lambs and eggs.
-- Ingrid Newkirk

#Animal #Thinking #Whales

I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his boat poising his lance, I see the Siberian on his slight-built sledge drawn by dogs, I see the porpoise-hunters, I see the whale-crews of the south Pacific and the north Atlantic, I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys of Switzerland - I mark the long winters and the isolation.
-- James Joyce

#Dog #Winter #Whales

The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living entity capable of maintaining the Earth's atmosphere to suit its overall needs and endowed with faculties and powers far beyond those of its constituent parts.
-- James Lovelock

#Whales #Atmosphere #Viruses

Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.
-- Jane Velez-Mitchell

#Kids #Whales #Earth

How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark." "A whale isn't a fish, Thursday." "A whale shark is--sort of." "All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish." "A crayfish isn't a fish." "A starfish, then." "Still not a fish." "This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.
-- Jasper Fforde

#Sharks #Whales #Thursday

Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.
-- Jay Griffiths

#Ocean #Blue #Whales

As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain.
-- Jim Starlin

#Whales #Elephants #Bigs

The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out of the blue, started singing. And the voice, you can hear how uncomfortable I am with it, and how terrified I am with it.
-- Joanna Newsom

#Blue #Whales #Voice

I’ve long been a fan of IMAX nature documentaries, but Humpback Whales, directed by Greg MacGillivray, is something special.
-- Joe Morgenstern

#Whales #Long #Special

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.
-- John Adams

#Passion #Whales #Morality

Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes- all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them.
-- John Muir

#Life #Fun #Whales

What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?
-- John Vaillant

#Whales #Answers #Lions

Tobias asked. "Weird? Weird?" Marco crowed. "The talking bird wants to know if getting information on the location of an alien from a whale, that you've just saved from sharks, by turning into dolphins . . . You're suggesting that's weird?
-- Katherine Applegate

#Sharks #Talking #Whales

Thanks to a lot of people, not just myself, Whale Rider had an amazing impact emotionally, and people remember it. I count myself very lucky that all those doors were unlocked, I just had to open them.
-- Keisha Castle-Hughes

#Impact #Doors #Whales

My favorite wild animal is a narwhal - the unicorn of the sea. It's a whale with a tooth that sticks out of its head that's almost two-thirds the length of its entire body.
-- Kesha

#Animal #Whales #Sea

A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Whales #People #Greed

I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats, whales, subhuman primates, superprimate humans, the lot. I can say this because we do not know what we are talking about: consciousness is so much a total mystery for our own species that we cannot begin to guess about its existence in others.
-- Lewis Thomas

#Gnats #Talking #Whales

You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you - it makes you feel as if the creatures were whales, your fork a derrick and your mouth Mammouth Cave.
-- Lillian Russell

#Eye #Oysters #Whales

I like people. I like animals, too-whales and quail, dinosaurs and dodos. But I like human beings especially, and I am unhappy that the pool of human germ plasm, which determines the nature of the human race, is deteriorating.
-- Linus Pauling

#Animal #Race #Whales

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

#Men #Whales #Names

Whales are drinking all our water and eating our sailors.
-- Maddox

#Drinking #Whales #Water

To have a huge, friendly whale willingly approach your boat and look you straight in the eye is without doubt one of the most extraordinary experiences on the planet.
-- Mark Carwardine

#Eye #Whales #Doubt

Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.
-- Matthew Arnold

#Eye #Whales #Sailing

Whatever bro, tell it to the whales
-- Max Brooks

#Whales #Bros

A whale is as unique as a cactus. But don't ask a whale to survive Death Valley. We all have special gifts. Where we use them and how determines whether we actually complete something.
-- Max De Pree

#Unique #Whales #Diversity

I'm concerned about the ocean and the environment. And I love whales.
-- Mayim Bialik

#Ocean #Whales #Environment

I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.
-- Miranda Richardson

#Beach #Lying #Whales

The sea can swallow ships, and it can spit out whales like watermelon seeds. It will take what it wants, and it will keep what it has taken, and you may not take away from it what it does not wish to give.
-- Natalie Babbitt

#Ocean #Taken #Whales

Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Ocean #Whales #Water

Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your mind the naive but commonplace notion that commercials are about products. They are about products in the same sense that the story of Jonah is about the anatomy of whales.
-- Neil Postman

#Simple #Whales #Ideas

Everyone else on the planet, from the lowest amoebae to the great blue whale, expresses all their component elements in a perfect dance with the world around them. Only human beings have unfulfilled lives.
-- Nicholas Lore

#Whales #Blue #Perfect

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Animal #Whales #Bird

I attempt to surf. Im not as good as anyone else in the water. Im 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

#Men #Whales #Water

You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes.
-- Orson Scott Card

#Writing #Whales #Stories

Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.
-- P. T. Barnum

#Whales #Publicity #Minnows

They [gorillas] are brave and loyal. They help each other. They rival elephants as parents and whales for gentleness. They play and have humor and they harm nothing. They are what we should be. I don't know if we'll ever get there.
-- Pat Derby

#Loyalty #Equality #Whales

I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.
-- Paul Fussell

#Baby #Book #Whales

I'm working for the people of Maine, not the whales of Maine.
-- Paul LePage

#Whales #People #Maine

I have been honored to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me. These beings have spoken to me, touched me, and I have been rewarded by friendship with many members of different species. If the whales survive and flourish, if the seals continue to live and give birth, and if I can contribute to ensuring their future prosperity, I will be forever happy.
-- Paul Watson

#Whales #Giving #Forever

All of the great whales are endangered.
-- Paul Watson

#Whales

This isn't a hunt that's going to kill just four or five gray whales. The repercussions of this will have an effect on tens of thousands of whales that will be killed by the Japanese and Norwegians.
-- Paul Watson

#Animal #Whales #Four

I can assure you no whales are going to be killed today.
-- Paul Watson

#Animal #Whales #Today

We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales.
-- Paul Watson

#Thinking #Animal #Whales

It is pretty clear in the Bible story that the whale swallowing Jonah wasn't meant as a punishment from God, it was God saving him from drowning. So it was actually provision to give him a second chance. The whale itself was the start of Jonah's second chance.
-- Phil Vischer

#Second Chance #Whales #Punishment

We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.
-- Pierce Brosnan

#Children #Ocean #Whales

If you are looking for a whale you cannot search for a whale in a pond. You must go to deep waters.
-- Prashant Iyengar

#Whales #Water #Ponds

So concisely, musically we are the herb So sit back and light me. Inhale... My style's kinda fat, reminiscent of a whale.
-- Q-Tip

#Rap #Whales #Light

Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with wonder and curiosity, compounded with an unconscious recognition of his lineage. He could not physically re-enter the ocean as the seals and whales had done. But over the centuries, with all the skill and ingenuity and reasoning powers of his mind, he has sought to explore and investigate even its most remote parts, so that he might re-enter it mentally and imaginatively.
-- Rachel Carson

#Ocean #Men #Whales

The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
-- Rachel Hunter

#Believe #Whales #Killers

My wife says I'm making a noise like a stranded whale. I think I have a major snoring problem.
-- Rex Hunt

#Thinking #Whales #Wife

They are a fairly aggressive conservation organization that was started to protect the great whales particularly, but in general all marine life around the world. So those are the people I'm trying to attach my name to.
-- Richard Dean Anderson

#Marine #Whales #Names

Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales with spear guns.
-- Rick Danko

#Hunting #Gun #Whales

I had whale tartare when I was in Japan, but I probably wouldn't have it again.
-- Sasha Cohen

#Japan #Whales

America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these.
-- Simon Hoggart

#Hero #Whales #America

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

#Tattoo #Children #Whales

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

#Fun #Whales #Ideas

In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.
-- Sri Yukteswar Giri

#Inspiration #Men #Whales

While it might surprise many ecologists to hear, capitalism is itself the ultimate form of conservationism. Capitalists seek to conserve resources, not because of sentimental feelings about nature or the earth or whales or worry about the well-being of future generations, but simply because every drop of oil, every ton of ore, every shipment of wood saved is a cost reduction and money in the pocket.
-- Steven Plaut

#Funny #Animal #Whales

I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.
-- Steven Tyler

#Beautiful #Children #Whales

Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.
-- Sylvia Earle

#Blue #Oysters #Whales

Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the water in a move known as a spy hop. They find playthings and are particularly fond of swimming repeatedly through clumps of seaweed, which slides over them like a feathered boa.
-- Tim Cahill

#Moving #Swimming #Whales

So, too, if, to our surprise, we should meet one of these morons whose remarks are so conspicuous a part of the folklore of the world of the radio--remarks made without using either the tongue or the brain, spouted much like the spoutings of small whales--we should recognize him as below the level of nature but not as below the level of the imagination.
-- Wallace Stevens

#Whales #Imagination #Brain

Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.
-- Wavy Gravy

#Whales #Television #Documentaries

It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales.
-- Wavy Gravy

#Hunting #Whales #Impact