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Best Captain Ahab Quotes By Herman Melville

Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock. — Herman Melville

Best Captain Ahab Quotes By Stephen King

She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale. — Stephen King

Best Captain Ahab Quotes By Herman Melville

To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous. — Herman Melville

Best Captain Ahab Quotes By Nathaniel Philbrick

As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, "All mortal greatness is but disease. — Nathaniel Philbrick

Best Captain Ahab Quotes By Greil Marcus

Every time Elvis sings, he makes a bargain with the devil -- just like Captain Ahab in MOBY DICK! — Greil Marcus

Best Captain Ahab Quotes By Eugene H. Peterson

The cosmic conflict between good and evil is joined; chaotic sea and demonic sea monster verses the morally outraged man, Captain Ahab. In this boat, however, there is one man who does nothing. He doesn't hold an oar; he doesn't perspire; he doesn't shout. He is languid in the crash and the cursing. This man is the harpooner, quiet and poised, waiting. And then this sentence: 'To insure the greatest efficiency in the dart, the harpooners of his world must start to their feet out of idleness, and not out of toil.' Was this the confirmation to cultivate what I had named an 'unbusy pastor'? — Eugene H. Peterson

Best Captain Ahab Quotes By Herman Melville

Over his ivory-inlaid table, Ahab presided like a mute, maned sea-lion on the white coral beach, surrounded by his warlike but still deferential cubs. In his own proper turn, each officer waited to be served. — Herman Melville

Best Captain Ahab Quotes By Salman Rushdie

Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived. — Salman Rushdie

Best Captain Ahab Quotes By Herman Melville

Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck. — Herman Melville

Best Captain Ahab Quotes By Herman Melville

His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab. And then it was, that suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw benieath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab's leg. — Herman Melville

Best Captain Ahab Quotes By Herman Melville

One captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six-inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab. — Herman Melville

Best Captain Ahab Quotes By Edward Said

Captain Ahab was a man possessed with an obsessional drive to pursue the white whale which had harmed him - which had torn his leg out - to the ends of the Earth, no matter what happened. In the final scene of the novel, Captain Ahab is being borne out to sea, wrapped around the white whale with the rope of his own harpoon and going obviously to his death. It was a scene of almost suicidal finality. — Edward Said