#whales

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#cities #continent #immense #land #lie

It was then I truly realised the whale is no more a fish than I am. So much blood. This was not like the fish on the quay, fresh caught, lying flipping and flopping, death on a simmer. This was a fierce, boiling death. She died thrashing blindly in a slick of gore, full of pain and fury, gnashing her jaws, beating her tail, spewing lumps of slime and half-digested fish that fell stinking about us. It was vile. So much strength dies slowly. ↗

— Carol Birch

#pain #strength #whales #death

Nate had been born and raised in British Columbia, and Canadians hate, above all things, to offend. It was part of the national consciousness. "Be polite" was an unwritten, unspoken rule, but ingrained into the psyche of an entire country. (Of course, as with any rule, there were exceptions: parts of Quebec, where people maintained the "dismissive to the point of confrontation, with subsequent surrender" mind-set of the French; and hockey, in which any Canadian may, with impunity, slam, pummel, elbow, smack, punch, body-check, and beat the shit out of, with sticks, any other human being, punctuated by profanities, name-calling, questioning parentage, and accusations of bestiality, usually-coincidentally- in French.) ↗

— Christopher Moore

#humor #whales #humor

No theory ever benefited by the application of data, Amy. Data kills theories. A theory has no better time than when it's lying there naked, pure, unsullied by facts. Let's just keep it that way for a while." "So you don't really have a theory?" "Clueless." "You lying bag of fish heads." "I can fire you, you know. Even if Clay was the one that hired you, I'm not totally superfluous to this operation yet. I'm kind of in charge. I can fire you. Then how will you live?" "I'm not getting paid." "See, right there. Perfectly good concept ruined by the application of fact. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#whales #humor

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#like #little #make #talk #were

It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales. ↗

— Wavy Gravy

#documentary #endangered #endangered species #enormous #had

The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is. ↗

— Rachel Hunter

#difficult #fidelity #killer #made #me

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

— Dave Barry

#many #real #real threat #species #threat

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

— Paul McCartney

#creatures #cruel #end #leave #magnificent

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