Ishmael Queequeg Quotes & Sayings

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting. — Viggo Mortensen

For a long time, because I'm pretty tall, I was scared to wear heels, but now I wear them all the time. I feel like I'm still discovering my stage style, but I love - well, I'm not a huge color person onstage, but I am in real life. I like short stuff, big heels, fringe, lots of fringe, sometimes sparkle, yeah! — Kelsea Ballerini

Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life. — Michael Jordan

Morning to ye! Morning to ye! — Herman Melville

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good. — Harry Lloyd

One day he reads his friend's novel and discovers that Ishmael's account and his own memories of what happened are completely different. So he writes his own version of the story. Call me Queequeg the story begins, and he titles it A Whale. From the harpooner's point of view, Ishmael was a pedantic scholar who blew things out of proportion. Moby Dick wasn't to blame, he was a whale like any other. It was all a matter of an incompetent captain wanting to settle a personal score instead of filling barrels with oil. "What does it matter who tore his leg off?" writes Queequeg. — Arturo Perez-Reverte

If you invest in your critics more than you invest in your dreams, you have successfully invested in your failure. — Matshona Dhliwayo