Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.
Do you think if it was the fairy tale about a man who lived inside of a whale and it was religion that Jack built a beanstalk today, you would know the difference? Why do you believe in one fairy tale and not the other? Just because adults told you it was true and they scared you into believing it, at pain of death, at pain of burning in hell.
We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows.
Using technology merely to lower operational costs amounts to standing on a whale fishing for minnows. It just allows you to do the old thing more efficiently, where in this moment of deep transformation, it is much more likely that you should be doing something entirely new in an entirely different way.
I had whale tartare when I was in Japan, but I probably wouldn't have it again.
In clear weather the laziest may look across the Bay as far as Plymouth at a glance, or over the Atlantic as far as human vision reaches, merely raising his eyelids; or if he is too lazy to look after all, he can hardly help hearing the ceaseless dash and roar of the breakers. The restless ocean may at any moment cast up a whale or a wrecked vessel at your feet. All the reporters in the world, the most rapid stenographers, could not report the news it brings.
I'd be a whale shark. I'd like to be the biggest. The winner. Size is always important.
I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.
[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.
A whale out of water is over-run by ants.
Spain- a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.
Lovely Arra Sails, nectar to all males, how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale!
One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and bred in captivity, then released into the wild-into its ancestral sea-its limited world instantly blowing up when cast into the unknowable depths, seeing strange fish and tasting new waters, not even having a concept of depth, not knowing the language of any whale pods it might meet. It was my fear of a world that would expand suddenly, violently, and without rules or laws: bubbles and seaweed and storms and frightening volumes of dark blue that never end.
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
For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle!
He: "Whale you be my valentine?" She: "Dolphinitely.
Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.
All I know is, it is better to be the whale than the squid.
A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.