Top Whales Quotes Collection

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Image of Daniel Quinn
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
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Image of John Vaillant
What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?
- John Vaillant
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Image of Joe Morgenstern
I’ve long been a fan of IMAX nature documentaries, but Humpback Whales, directed by Greg MacGillivray, is something special.
- Joe Morgenstern
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Image of Andre Nickatina
I'm a Pisces but I'd rather be a killa whale.
- Andre Nickatina
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Image of Paul Watson
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
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Image of Matt Walsh
I'm more of a fisherman as opposed to a scientist perhaps and chasing the whale. But I've had some success.
- Matt Walsh
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Image of Paul LePage
I'm working for the people of Maine, not the whales of Maine.
- Paul LePage
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Image of Owsley Stanley
How did the dolphins and whales get such big brains? They obviously don't need such big brains to catch fish.
- Owsley Stanley
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Image of Owsley Stanley
The dolphins and whales have a brain that is actually bigger in proportion to their size than we do. They are very complex. They are thinkers.
- Owsley Stanley
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Image of Andy Weir
How come Aquaman can control whales? They’re mammals! Makes no sense.
- Andy Weir
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Image of Jim Starlin
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
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Image of Henry Kravis
Whales who come up and spout off get harpooned.
- Henry Kravis
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Image of James Lovelock
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
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Image of Wallace Stevens
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
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Image of Christopher Moore
Shoes off in the whale! And don't try and make a break for the anus.
- Christopher Moore
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Image of Kurt Vonnegut
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
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Image of Thomas Paine
The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale.
- Thomas Paine
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Image of Karl Pilkington
I mean, I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.
- Karl Pilkington
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Image of Christopher Moore
All killer whales are named Kevin. You knew that, right?
- Christopher Moore
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Image of J. K. Rowling
Dudley had reached roughly the size and weight of a young killer whale.
- J. K. Rowling
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Image of Max Brooks
Whatever bro, tell it to the whales
- Max Brooks
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Image of Christopher Moore
Actually, orcas aren't quite as complex as scientists imagine. Most killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car.
- Christopher Moore
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Image of George Carlin
Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.
- George Carlin
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Image of Joseph Campbell
We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows.
- Joseph Campbell
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Image of Bill Bryson
Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.
- Bill Bryson
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Image of Paul Watson
All of the great whales are endangered.
- Paul Watson
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Image of Lupe Fiasco
The rewards we get by being those weird guys going against the grain to me are way more massive than selling a million billion records. I like climbing mountains or going on undersea dives for whales and stuff like that.
- Lupe Fiasco
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Image of Roger Ebert
All I know is, it is better to be the whale than the squid.
- Roger Ebert
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Val Kilmer
Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing back in Los Angeles, but when you look out there... How can you complain when you see a whale cresting, matter-of-factly, as you make your breakfast?
- Val Kilmer
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Image of Herman Melville
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
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Image of P. T. Barnum
Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.
- P. T. Barnum
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Image of Herman Melville
It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.
- Herman Melville
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Image of Demetri Martin
I went whale watching once. It was very similar to watching people on a boat become disappointed.
- Demetri Martin
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