Captain Ahab: Birds... the birds... *He rises*! - Gregory Peck (as Captain Ahab) in Moby Dick (1956)

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Captain Ahab: Blacksmith, I set ye a task. Take these harpoons and lances. Melt them down. Forge me new weapons that will strike deep and hold fast. But do not douse them in water; they must have a proper baptism. What say ye, all ye men? Will you give as much blood as shall be needed to temper the steel? - Gregory Peck (as Captain Ahab) in Moby Dick (1956)

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Captain Ahab: By heavens man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and fate is the handspike. - Gregory Peck (as Captain Ahab) in Moby Dick (1956)

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Captain Ahab: Captain Gardner, I seek the white whale, your own son's murderer. I am losing time... Goodbye, and fare thee well, I say. God help you, Captain Gardiner. Captain Gardiner: God forgive you, Captain Ahab. - Gregory Peck (as Captain Ahab) in Moby Dick (1956)

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Captain Ahab: From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned whale. - Gregory Peck (as Captain Ahab) in Moby Dick (1956)

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Captain Ahab: I don't give reasons. I give orders! - Gregory Peck (as Captain Ahab) in Moby Dick (1956)

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Captain Ahab: I'll follow him around the Horn, and around the Norway maelstrom, and around perdition's flames before I give him up. - Gregory Peck (as Captain Ahab) in Moby Dick (1956)

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Father Mapple: Delight is to him who coming to day him down can say, "O Father, mortal or immortal, here I die. I have striven to be Thine, more than to be this world's. Yet this is nothing. I leave eternity to Thee. For what is man, that he should live out the lifetime of his God?" - Orson Welles (as Father Mapple) in Moby Dick (1956)

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Ishmael: [in voice-over narration] He did not feel the wind, or smell the salt air. He only stood, staring at the horizon, with the marks of some inner crucifixion and woe deep in his face. - Richard Basehart (as Ishmael) in Moby Dick (1956)

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Ishmael: [in voice-over narration] Long days and nights we strained at the oars while a white whale swam freely on, widening the waters between himself and Ahab's vengeance. - Richard Basehart (as Ishmael) in Moby Dick (1956)

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