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" As long as there is a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Sea Shepherd crew will continue to patrol and defend it. "

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

Herman Melville

" Being lampooned on 'South Park' is hardly something to complain about. They brought the issue of the dolphin and whale slaughter by the Japanese to a very large audience. I could not really care less how I was portrayed. "

" By 1760, the Nantucketers had virtually exterminated the local whale population. "

Nathaniel Philbrick

" Divine was like a 400-pound beached whale. He was one of my favorite leading ladies, I've got to tell you. He was really terrific. "

" 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

" I'd like to play the whale in 'Moby Dick.' If I keep eating, I may end up getting there. "

Richard Jenkins

" I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness. "

" If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it. "

William Jennings Bryan

" I had whale tartare when I was in Japan, but I probably wouldn't have it again. "

" I love 'Sky Whale!' I play it in bed, I play it in church, I even play it on the toilet! "

" In 1939, Orwell wrote a long essay titled 'Inside the Whale,' about modernism, the nineteen-thirties, Henry Miller, and 'Tropic of Cancer.' "

" I played trumpet for Noah and the Whale a couple of times. "

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

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

" I will not watch a whale die. I've not seen a whale die since I left Greenpeace in 1977. "

" I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so. "

" Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast. "

" My commitment is to my kids and my mum and I'm having a whale of a time. "

Carol Vorderman

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

" People sometimes feel frustrated about what's going on in our oceans and environment, and 'Whale Wars' shows that ordinary people can take action and make things happen. "

" Right whales - so named because they were 'the right whale to kill' - grazed the waters off Nantucket as if they were seagoing cattle, straining the nutrient-rich surface of the ocean through the bushy plates of baleen in their perpetually grinning mouths. "

Nathaniel Philbrick

" The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua. "

Lawrence M. Krauss

" The fin whale is the second largest whale species on Earth, weighing up to 80 tons. "

" The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species. "

" 'The Squid and the Whale' I shot in 23 days. I would have loved more time for it at the time, but in some ways that kind of kamikaze way of shooting was right for that movie. "

" The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine. "

" To have a huge, friendly whale willingly approach your boat and look you straight in the eye is without doubt one of the most extraordinary experiences on the planet. "

Mark Carwardine

" To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme. "

" We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale. "

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