Whales Quotes - Page 7

• 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, People

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• In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes: cloud forests, rain forests, ice pack, boreal forests, coral reefs, forests of deciduous trees, conifer and palm.

  Eban Goodstein

  Rain, Home, Butterfly

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• Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

  Mark Twain

  Couple, Decision, Brain

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• When I'm awake all night, sometimes I see the people and the city waking up around me. I feel a little bit moody at them for stepping into my night-time. What I want is that feeling when you're in the rain, or a storm. It's a shiver at the edge of your mind, an atmosphere of hearing a sad, distant sound, but it seems closer - like it's just for you. Like hearing rain or a whale-song, a cry in the dark, the far cry.

  Burial

  Song, Rain, Dark

  "Only five people know I make tunes". Interview with Dan Hancox, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2007.

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• 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, Body

  Paul Fussell (1992). “Class: A Guide Through the American Status System”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• 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, Sea, Two

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• Dear Habicht, / Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some inconsequential babble... / What are you up to, you frozen whale, you smoked, dried, canned piece of soul...?

  Albert Einstein

  Air, Silence, Soul

  Letter to his friend Conrad Habicht, May 1905.

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• In the [first] fifteen years [of field work] I can remember just ten times when I had really narrow escapes from death. Two were from drowning in typhoons, one was when our boat was charged by a wounded whale; once my wife and I were nearly eaten by wild dogs, once we were in great danger from fanatical lama priests; two were close calls when I fell over cliffs, once I was nearly caught by a huge python, and twice I might have been killed by bandits.

  Roy Chapman Andrews

  Dog, Years, Two

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• [Making Moana] was like camping because we were all living together on the boat, and one night we came home and there was a whale shark. I got to go swimming with her. It was a magic, magic, magical time.

  Alan Tudyk

  Home, Swimming, Night

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If the bible myth of Jonah in the whale and the Mother Goose myth of Jack and the Beanstalk were switched at birth so that Jack in the Beanstalk were in the bible, do you think any child would notice?

  Bill Maher

  Mother, Children, Thinking

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• I'm concerned about the ocean and the environment. And I love whales.

  Mayim Bialik

  Ocean, Environment, Concerned

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• How did the dolphins and whales get such big brains? They obviously don't need such big brains to catch fish.

  Owsley Stanley

  Brain, Dolphins, Needs

  Source: medium.com

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• Time after time, on matters great and small, we are still standing on the sidelines, mutely accepting what is decided elsewhere instead of raising our voices and making our own choices. Scotland's much vaunted partnership of Jonah and the whale.

  Winnie Ewing

  Voice, Scotland, Choices

  Quoted in Michael Russell (ed) Stop the World: The Autobiography of Winnie Ewing (2004).

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• In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.

  Douglas Adams

  Lonely, Long, Enough

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.134, Del Rey

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• The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.

  Warren Farrell

  Males, Care, Saving

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• I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

  Tori Amos

  Daughter, Nursing, Months

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• 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, Looks

  Gerald Durrell (2017). “My Family and Other Animals”, p.109, Penguin UK

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• 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

  Blue, Perfect, Elements

  Whole Living Magazine, 2004.

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• 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

  Thinking, Animal, Eggs

  "Soldiering On, Part I: PETA at 20 Years". Interview with Catherine Clyne, www.satyamag.com. November/December 2000.

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• [Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length and breadth than two acres of ground." This brings up again the old question: Are the classics doomed? Our ancestors believed that four years of this sort of information would inevitably produce a President, or at least a Cabinet Member. It didn't seem to work out that way.

  Will Cuppy

  Years, Two, Long

  "The Whale". "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes". Book by Will Cuppy, 1931.

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• Dudley had reached roughly the size and weight of a young killer whale.

  J. K. Rowling

  Weight, Killers, Size

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”, p.33, Pottermore

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• It wasn't exactly like talking, but it went something like this: Could you give us a ride north, Percy asked, like as close to Portland as possible? Eat seals, the whale responded. Are you seals? No, Percy admitted. I've got a man satchel full of macrobiotic beef jerky, though. The whale shuddered. Promise not to feed me this, and I will take you north. Deal.

  Rick Riordan

  Men, Talking, Beef Jerky

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

  Rex Hunt

  Thinking, Wife, Noise

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hey man, can you talk to dolphins and pilot whales with that huge forehead of yours?

  Tucker Max

  Men, Dolphins, Hey

  "The Midget Story". The Tucker Max Stories, tuckermax.com.

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• I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.

  Bill Condon

  Past, Connections, Wanted

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