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Shark Quotes

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
Sharks will scare me. I went out to Malibu a couple of weeks ago. Beautiful, clear day, out in five feet of water, going to surf, and there was this big ol' freakin' leopard shark... I'm looking at him and I'm thinking, 'OK, he won't hurt me.' Timothy Olyphant
Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent. Dave Barry
When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice. Taylor Lautner
You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'. Gary Larson
They said it was only a ground shark; but I was not wholly reassured. It is as bad to be eaten by a ground shark as by any other. Winston Churchill
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. Lewis Carroll
Newspapers will run a headline: 'Shark kills human.' You never see a headline from the other perspective: 'Man swims in shark-infested water, forgets he's shark food. Gary Larson
Jules Verne quote: "Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of..."
Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men. Jules Verne
Well, everyone, welcome to Shark Week. Oh that's on CBS and there's been a lot of cutbacks, so it's just Friday night for a couple of minutes. And we don't have any sharks, just an immigrant with a puppet. Hey, but it's a start! Craig Ferguson
Herman Melville quote: "if you gobern de shark in you, why den you be angel; for all..."
...if you gobern de shark in you, why den you be angel; for all angel is not'ing more dan de shark well goberned. Herman Melville
Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know. Ernest Hemingway
I mention this fact as tending to support what I have often heard stated, namely, that a shark's sense of smell is so keen that, if men ever bathe in seas where they are found, a shark is almost sure to appear directly afterwards. George Grey
Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by holding her hand against the sun, and so brought darkness and desolation, like God himself, to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures, and then took her hand away suddenly and let the sun stream down. Virginia Woolf
Ernest Hemingway quote: "It was an hour before the first shark hit him."
It was an hour before the first shark hit him. Ernest Hemingway

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