Quotes About Sharks

#1. You're more likely to drown in the sea of sameness than get eaten by a shark while navigating new waters.

Amy Jo Martin

#2. When I first came to NBC, I thought it was going to be swimming with the sharks, all men for themselves, be careful and all that. I have to tell you I learned that you can be kind and a hard worker and move up. You don't have to play dirty or do things that you think happens at big corporations.

Hoda Kotb

#3. Rule number four for me as a writer? Plotlines are like sharks: They either keep moving or they die. ~J.R. Ward

J.R. Ward

#4. I am a shark, the ground is my ocean, and most people can't even swim.

Rickson Gracie

#5. The only use for a knife during a shark attack is pure treachery: Stab your buddy, swim like hell, and hope the munchies take him.

Tim Cahill

#6. I've been on swims where people have freaked out about sharks. You have to think about something else, otherwise it will absolutely paralyze you. I do math problems, anything.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

#7. The only sharks I'm afraid of are the ones that wear three-piece suits and write memos.

Laurie Nadel

#8. Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans, and migrating whales. Here, at the edge of the continent, time and distance stopped; in the lull between sets of waves I could get a fresh start.

Gretel Ehrlich

#9. I did 50 takes on Robert Shaw assembling the Greener Gun on 'Jaws.' The shark wasn't working, so I just kept shooting to make the production report look like we were accomplishing something and to keep cast and crew from going crazy from boredom. It was a strategic indulgence.

Steven Spielberg

#10. I welcomed the circling sharks but they avoided me as if knowing I preferred their teeth to the chains around my neck my waist my ankles

Toni Morrison

#11. Sharks are workers like the critics remoras.

Valgame

#12. Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.

Tom Robbins

#13. Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator-prey balance dramatically shifts, and the health of our oceans declines.

Brian Skerry

#14. The great white sharks with their rough, pale sides, the killer whales striped in black and white like an Edwardian garden chaise.

Cassandra Clare

#15. I give [Barack Obama] a 10 [on a scale of 1 to 10] because he's not God, and he inherited a couple of wars, and a financial mess.I want to see him curse somebody out on TV. You can't finesse a bull. He's gotta throw down. He's in the shark tank.

Tracy Morgan

#16. Fetch me more sharks that I might jump them!

Matthew Catania

#17. But there are frogs deadlier than sharks

Brian McGreevy

#18. I would rather be a shark in a small pond with small fishis then a shark with bigger sharks then you

Beto Jimenez

#19. Fraj-ile, I say, pronouncing it the way she does - as if it might be a popular tourist destination in the Pacific, beautiful Fraj Isle, with its white sandy beaches and shark-filled coves.

Dan Chaon

#20. Don't Trust Blindly
If in shark infested waters, don't assume the fin coming toward you is a dolphin.

Mary Russel

#21. Half fish," he said. "Fish that you were. I am sorry that I went too far out. I ruined us both. But we have killed many sharks, you and I, and ruined many others. How many did you ever kill, old fish? You do not have that spear on your head for nothing.

Ernest Hemingway,

#22. If sharks could smile, they'd smile like he was now.

Kathleen Peacock

#23. Sharks are among the most perfectly constructed creatures in nature. Some forms have survived for two hundred million years.

Eugenie Clark

#24. Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet's sharks combined.

Paul Watson

#25. Pretty great view. You think they'd do something about the sharks.

Elle Lothlorien

#26. Sharks don't eat seafood because they like it, but because chicken can't swim.

Michael J. Sullivan

#27. Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish?

Erica Jong

#28. Sharks are the lions of the sea.They glamorize the oceanic glory.

Munia Khan

#29. A boxer is like a lion, the greatest predator on land, but you throw him in the shark tank and he's just another meal.

Renzo Gracie

#30. As an entrepreneur, you can always find a solution if you try hard enough.

Lori Greiner

#31. For a photographer, sharks are a stirring subject, possessing a perfect blend of grace and power. They have been sculpted by evolution and are ideally suited for whichever ecosystem they inhabit, from coral reefs to the open ocean.

Brian Skerry

#32. That's not news! When a shark comes out of the water, walks into a 7-11, and bites you in the ass, then it's news!

Carlos Mencia

#33. I've been diving for about 30 years, and I can honestly say that I've had some amazing encounters with sharks, squids, and other whales. But the encounter with the right whales in the Auckland Islands was probably the best thing I've ever done. It was just that amazing.

Brian Skerry

#34. His lips crashed against hers. If there had been air in her lungs, she wouldn't have known what to do with it. He kissed her fiercely, making her head spin wilder than a whirlpool, knocking every last puff of breath from her body.

Ophelia London

#35. Sharks are so stupid. They swam right up to the boat, and they couldn't even tell that I was chumming the water with ketchup, rather than blood.

Jarod Kintz

#36. I used to be as scared of public speaking as I was of sharks. Every time I teach I get an endorphin high off the fact that I did not have a panic attack. I teach and swim in order to measure my improvement as a human. I am no longer terrified of quite so many things.

Heidi Julavits

#37. For an actor, it's great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.

Michael Douglas

#38. My position is this. If we can't protect sanctuaries, if we can't save the whales, the sharks, the fish, our oceans will die.

Paul Watson

#39. Losing is like smoking. It's habit forming"; "Fear is the basis of all mankind. In cards, you psyche 'em out, you shark 'em, you put the fear of God in 'em

Puggy Pearson

#40. I shouldn't brag, but I'm one of the top experts in my field."
She swallowed. "Of shark sex, you mean."
"Well, that, too. Anything you want to know on the subject, Sharona ... anything"
he pulled back a sexy half grin
"I'd be happy to enlighten you.

Ophelia London

#41. Well, we all have our sharks, I'm sure, and there's only one way to get them off before they hack and nibble you to death - stop feeding them; they will find other bait; you fattened them the last dozen times around - now set them out to sea.

Charles Bukowski

#42. Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear,
And he shows them pearly white.
Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear,
And he keeps them out of sight.

Kurt Weill

#43. The vast white headless phantom floats further and further from the ship, and every rod that it so floats, what seem square roods of sharks and cubic roods of fowls, augment the murderous din.

Herman Melville

#44. The job of the financial journalist was to examine the sharks who created interest crises and speculated away the savings of small investors, to scrutinize company boards with the same merciless zeal.

Stieg Larsson

#45. I am terrified of sharks, so I don't surf!

Janel Parrish

#46. Are we turning back? Because if you're just trying to solve my post-traumatic stress problem by exposing me to rock sharks until I'm desensitized, trust me - that ship has sailed.

Elle Lothlorien

#47. Sharks are really serious animals. They've been around longer than dinosaurs. They're basically prehistoric killing machines, and that's terrifying and fascinating, at the same time.

Sara Paxton

#48. I'd like to find the guy who invented the proverb 'go with the flow' and lead him to an ocean full of hungry sharks. And see how he would flow. I'd really like to know.

Dee Lestari

#49. I understand that you're a big fish in a small pond, but I'll explain that if you want to swim in the ocean, you must understand that the ocean is populated by sharks, and sharks never sleep.

Kristen Ashley

#50. The whole island was stained in blood and haunted with the dead. Horror stories lay beneath every square foot of this awful place, and at any time, hidden atrocities might surface like sharks rising from the surf to take a bite out of whatever faith he tried to maintain.

John Dixon

#51. There will always be sharks in the water. Nothing you can do about it except be careful where you swim." "Your

Maria V. Snyder

#52. buttons, and turns out his toes.' [later editions continued as follows When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark, But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.] 'That's different from what

Lewis Carroll

#53. Anything in the entertainment business, there's sharks coming around. It's about staying true to yourself and making sure that, when you look in the mirror, you're happy with what you see.

O'Shea Jackson Jr.

#54. Love is like going snorkeling ... You go along looking at pretty fish and cool plants until a wave rolls you over a coral reef ... then the sharks come.

Julie Wright

#55. Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

Bill Gates

#56. Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans.

James Lee

#57. Only the strongest players can swim in the shark-infested waters of the Masters' Seas.

Victor Niederhoffer

#58. God isn't going to scribble across the sky. The shark is gone.

Peter Benchley

#59. What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives.

Bernie Sanders

#60. I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.

Peter Benchley

#61. Sharks don't kill because they're poor, criminal, insane, or repressed. A shark kills because it's a shark.

Barry B. Longyear

#62. Mingling their mumblings with his own mastications, thousands on thousands of sharks, swarming round the dead leviathan, smackingly feasted on its fatness.

Herman Melville

#63. With acting, there are a lot of subtleties and non-verbals involved. If someone is over there, getting eaten by a shark, there's a non-verbal way of how to act that. There's a certain nuance to acting that does not come intuitively to me. It's something I still have to learn.

Mark McGrath

#64. Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.

Guy Finley

#65. I stepped free of Isambard and shoved Michael in the chest. I caught him off guard. He tumbled to the dock, and rolled into the water with a splash.
"I hope there are zombie sharks in there and they bite you and you die!" I screamed.

Lia Habel

#66. What do you do when you're swimming with sharks? You make sure you're the biggest, most badass thing in the pool.

Pippa DaCosta

#67. I was alone and orphaned, in the middle of the Pacific, hanging on to an oar, an adult tiger in front of me, sharks beneath me, a storm raging about me.

Yann Martel

#68. There were even sand sharks, she'd read, so maybe she'd swim close to shore. But after living in Ohio

Kaira Rouda

#69. But these, wide-finned in silver, roaring, the light mist of their propellers in the sun, these do not move like sharks. They move like nothing there has ever been. They move like mechanized doom.

Ernest Hemingway,

#70. I don't get 'shark' - but who cares!

Isaac

#71. It's not normal to go into a house and see a pond in the middle of the living room full of baby sharks. It's not normal to go to someone's garage and see a private plane.

Kevin Kwan

#72. We developed microfinance to fight loan sharks - I was telling people don't go to loan sharks - not trying to take advantage and make money for myself. I would be a junior loan shark if I did ... It is not a panacea.

Muhammad Yunus

#73. Dauna inhaled a deep drag from her happy cigarette. (Yes, her cig was happy. Fuck'n euphoric.) Smoke swirled over her tongue." - Shark Fin Soup 2015

Fred Barnett

#74. Why was life so unfair that the one guy she felt uncontrollable chemistry with
even when they weren't even touching
was the only guy she had to keep her hands off?

Ophelia London

#75. I have a hard problem, being some part Native American - being a Christian: do you get burned, do you get cremated, do you get - let the sharks eat you? How do you die?

Duane Chapman

#76. I was swimming with the turd sharks in an ocean made of piss

Sam Cheever

#77. A party. What was I going to do at a party? I had a feeling I'd have been much better off in the water with the sharks.

Brandon Sanderson

#78. Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.

Peter Benchley

#79. I'm afraid of sharks - but only in a water situation.

Demetri Martin

#80. Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them." However, that one's having a rough time catching on.

Brandon Sanderson

#81. I felt nothing like a horse, whose instincts I knew were to run and run. I had mostly in life tried to stand still like a glob of coral so as not to be spotted by sharks. But now I had crawled out onto land and was somehow already a horse.

Lorrie Moore

#82. I'm in the habit of employing either sharks or mice.

Erin Jamison

#83. Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.

Sylvia Earle

#84. The Oceanic White Tip is considered one of the most dangerous sharks in the sea along with the Great White and Tiger. It is responsible for some of the most famous episodes of man-eating in history, such as when the U.S.S. Indianapolis sank in 1945.

Brian Skerry

#85. Most people don't know that humans kill 100 million sharks every year, mostly for a really expensive soup in Asia.

Michael Muller

#86. I think you look ... very nice. the way he said it, with a slight pause and that sexy accent, made Sharona forget all about jet lag. Instead, she was on high flirt alert.

Ophelia London

#87. Being mad at a drug addict for doing what drug addicts do, is like being mad at a shark for doing what sharks do, or being mad at a cockroach for doing what cockroaches do.

Oliver Markus

#88. I wanted a shark that's big enough to eat you, and in a large enough amount of liquid so that you could imagine you were in there with it.

Damien Hirst

#89. Sharks attack surfers because they look like a seal. Apparently, when you're layng on your board and you have your arms and legs hanging off, from underneath you look like a seal. So I just got a picture of a seal and put a red line through it and put it underneath my board.

Henry Cho

#90. Interceded? You threw me to the sharks!

Stephenie Meyer

#91. It comes down to finding something you love to do and then just trying to be great at it

Mark Cuban

#92. It's like going to the zoo when you come to my house. I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider.

Tracy Morgan

#93. Surrounding us is an ocean of mess and misunderstanding, full of pirates and sharks just waiting to see who slips in first

Sarah Ockler

#94. We are already perilously close to killing off the top of the oceanic food chain - with catastrophic consequences that we can't begin to imagine. Let us not, in the heat of anger, reduce the already devastated population of great white sharks by one more member.

Peter Benchley

#95. Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but you're more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark!

Ted Danson

#96. You Know the Most Dangerous Thing In the Water? A Shark Fart.

Gary Busey

#97. I don't look back. I'm like a shark - I only look forward.

Rita Rudner

#98. I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo.

Wyndham Lewis

#99. The goblins want girls who dream so hard about being pretty their yearning leaves a palpable trail, a scent goblins can follow like sharks on a soft bloom of blood. The girls with hungry eyes who pray each night to wake up as someone else. Urgent, unkissed, wishful girls. Like Kizzy.

Laini Taylor

#100. Muy Peligroso!" Bernie's choices had become as limited as the Taco Bell menu. Reason and blood had left the building, heading south, faster than reprobates to Florida." - Shark Fin Soup 2015

Fred Barnett