Quotes about harpooner

A collection of quotes on the topic of harpooner.

    Quotes about harpooner

    “.. I tell you Dain is a splendid catch. I advise you to set your hooks and reel him in.”

    Jessica took a long swallow of her cognac. “This is not a trout, Genevieve. This is a great, hungry shark.”

    “Then use a harpoon.”

    Loretta Chase book Lord of Scoundrels

    Source: Lord of Scoundrels

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    “Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.”

    Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author

    Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes

    Daniel Handler photo

    “Never mind what you were doing, Olaf said. You're fired!
    You can't fire me! Esme growled. I quit!
    Well, you can leave by mutual agreement, Olaf grumbled and then with another succinct Ha! he lifted the harpoon gun and pointed it at Dewey Denouement.”

    Daniel Handler book The Penultimate Peril

    The Penultimate Peril (2005)

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    “The capitalist has no heart, but harpoon him in the pocketbook and you will draw blood.”

    Bill Haywood (1869–1928) Labor organizer

    Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and The Struggle for the American Dream, Bruce Watson. Viking-Penguin, 2005; pg. 93.

    Heart, Drawing
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    “So I'm at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon.”

    Emo Philips (1956) American comedian

    The Guardian - The best God joke ever - and it's mine! (September 1980)

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    “It was my lot to plant the harpoon of algebraic topology into the body of the whale of algebraic geometry.”

    Solomon Lefschetz (1884–1972) American mathematician

    [Carl C. Gaither, Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither, Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations: A Collection of Approximately 27,000 Quotations Pertaining to Archaeology, Architecture, Astronomy, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Cosmology, Darwinism, Engineering, Geology, Mathematics, Medicine, Nature, Nursing, Paleontology, Philosophy, Physics, Probability, Science, Statistics, Technology, Theory, Universe, and Zoology, https://books.google.com/books?id=zQaCSlEM-OEC&pg=PA29, 5 January 2012, Springer Science & Business Media, 978-1-4614-1114-7, 29]