82 Quotes About Whales

  • Author Demetri Martin
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    I went whale watching once. It was very similar to watching people on a boat become disappointed.

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  • Author Gabriel García Márquez
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    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.

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  • Author Nelson Mandela
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    Isimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (rhinoceros) and the world biggest terrestrial mammal (elephant) share an ecosystem with the world's oldest fish (coelacanth) and the world's biggest marine mammal (whale)

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  • Author Max de Pree
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    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.

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  • Author Thomas Paine
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    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.

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  • Author Olesya Rulin
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    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!

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  • Author Spider Robinson
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    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.

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

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