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Peter Benchley Quotes

Peter Benchley quotes

American Author May 8, 1940 – February 11, 2006

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Peter Benchley quote: "Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have..."
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline. Peter Benchley
Peter Benchley quote: "Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth."
Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth. Peter Benchley
Brody felt a shimmy of fear skitter up his back. He was a very poor swimmer, and the prospect of being on top of—let alone in—water above his head give him what his mother used to call the wimwams: sweaty palms, a persistent need to swallow, and a ache in his stomach—essentially the sensation some people feel about flying. In Brody's dreams, deep water was populated by slimy, savage things that rose from below and shredded his flesh, by demons that cackled and moaned. Peter Benchley
Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful. God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They're as graceful as any bird. They're as mysterious as any animal on earth. No one knows for sure how long they live or what impulsesexcept for hungerthey respond to. There are more than two hundred and fifty species of shark, and everyone is different from every other one. Peter Benchley
The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future. Peter Benchley
The fish was an enemy. It had come upon the community and killed two men, a woman, and a child. The people of Amity would demand the death of the fish. They would need to see it dead before they could feel secure enough to resume their normal lives. Peter Benchley
Peter Benchley quote: "If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest..."
If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct. Peter Benchley
Peter Benchley quote: "The great fish moved silently through the night water."
The great fish moved silently through the night water. Peter Benchley
The fish might well have disappeared already, but Brody wasn't willing to gamble lives on the possibility: the odds might be good, but the stakes were prohibitively high. Peter Benchley
Peter Benchley quote: "I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't..."
I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me. Peter Benchley
Peter Benchley quote: "I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish..."
I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins. Peter Benchley
There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear. Peter Benchley
Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while. Peter Benchley
Peter Benchley quote: "I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is..."
I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal. Peter Benchley
Peter Benchley quote: "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water..."
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water... Peter Benchley

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