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Quotes About Porpoise

Leo scratched his head. Well, I dunno about enchiladas- Enceladus Piper corrected. Whatever. But Old Potty Face mentioned another name. Porpoise Fear, or something?
~ Rick Riordan
Will you walk a little faster?' said a whiting to a snail, 'There's a porpoise close behind us and he's treading on my tail. See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance! They are waiting on the shingle -- will you come and join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?
~ Lewis Carroll
They were obliged to have him with them,' the Mock Turtle said: 'no wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.
~ Lewis Carroll
On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves.
~ Joshua Slocum
Leaning over this parapet I see far out a waste of water. A fin turns. This bare visual impression is unattached to any line of reason, it springs up as one might see the fin of a porpoise on the horizon. Visual impressions often communicate thus briefly statements that we shall in time come to uncover and coax into words.
~ Virginia Woolf
The porpoise has always been a sign of renewal and of the charged magical life.
~ Pat Conroy
I cannot express how lordly and transfigured I felt at that moment. I was a prince of that harbor, a porpoise king - slim among the buoys and the water traffic.
~ Pat Conroy
Molly happy see Ammm," she said. The Porpoise language has 237 words that mean "happy," and Molly had actually chosen the one denoting the happiness derived from having one's belly tickled by seaweed.
~ Dave Barry
If that was Tom Simms," said Audrey, "I'd say he was probably drunk and his mermaid was a porpoise.
~ Philip Pullman