#whale

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

#because #been #day #days #fiction

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#creatures #cruel #end #leave #magnificent

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it. ↗

— Herman Melville

#been #burst #chest #down #felt

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. ↗

— Herman Melville

#harvard #ship #whale #yale

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

#am #blue #few #first #had

To wake up in England and have the newspaper on your front door with a headline that says, 'Ozzie's Beach Whale of a Daughter,' doesn't really do much for your self-esteem at all. ↗

— Kelly Osbourne

#daughter #door #england #front #headline

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

#am #certain #certain feeling #creatures #feeling

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

#believed #down #i #lay #never

God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#compare #crazy #gave #go #god

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#cell #fact #family #genes #grasses