Sharks Quotes - Page 11

• Tobias asked. "Weird? Weird?" Marco crowed. "The talking bird wants to know if getting information on the location of an alien from a whale, that you've just saved from sharks, by turning into dolphins . . . You're suggesting that's weird?

  Katherine Applegate

  Talking, Whales, Bird

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• I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

  Alan Alda

  Blow, Volcanoes, Hands

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• Testing her sexuality, she thinks she's caught a beautiful fish, when in reality, she's netted a shark.

  Tammara Webber

  Beautiful, Reality, Thinking

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Good For You”, p.50, Tammara Webber

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• No rescue boat can save the touches I left bobbing in the wild ocean of your flesh, but if they cut open your heart, like the belly of a shark, dumped its contents on a table—would there be any trace of me?

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Ocean, Heart, Cutting

  Jeffrey McDaniel (2002). “Splinter Factory”, p.49, Manic D Press

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• I know this is your hand now,' she tells him. "Roland would have never touched me like that." Connor smiles, and Risa takes a moment to look down at the shark on his wrist. It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No- the soul of a man.

  Neal Shusterman

  Boys, Men, Hands

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• Being nearly naked around Barrons felt a lot like going to a shark convention lightly basted in blood.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Blood, Naked, Conventions

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.115, Delacorte Press

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• 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

  Moving, Numbers, Four

  J.R. Ward (2008). “The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide”, p.99, Penguin

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• Look, Chief, you can't go off half-cocked looking for vengeance against a fish. That shark isn't evil. It's not a murderer. It's just obeying its own instincts. Trying to get retribution against a fish is crazy.

  Peter Benchley

  Crazy, Evil, Trying

  Peter Benchley (2012). “Jaws 2-Book Bundle: Jaws and Shark Trouble”, p.111, Random House

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• We don’t like to think of ourselves as prey—it is a lessening thought—but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget that we are not unique. We are part of nature as much as other animals, and some animals—sharks, fever-bearing mosquitoes, wolves and bear, to name but a few—perceive us as a food source, a meat supply, and simply did not get the memo about how humans are superior. It can be shocking, humbling, painful, very edifying and sometimes downright fatal to run into such an animal.

  Gary Paulsen

  Running, Animal, Unique

  Gary Paulsen (2003). “Brian's Hunt”, p.65, Wendy Lamb Books

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• In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe as we move through a mildly good cocktail party, picking up the good bits of food or conversation, bearing with the rest, going home when it comes to seem the reasonable thing to do. Art, at those moments when it feels most like art -- when we feel most alive, most alert, most triumphant -- is less like a cocktail party than a tank full of sharks.

  John Gardner

  Art, Moving, Home

  John Gardner (2010). “The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers”, p.35, Vintage

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• The moon had risen behind him, the color of a shark's underbelly. It lit the ruined walls, and the skin of his arms and hands, with its sickly light, making him long for a mirror in which to study his face. Surely he'd be able to see the bones beneath the meat; the skull gleaming the way his teeth gleamed when he smiled. After all, wasn't that what a smile said? Hello, world, this is the way I'll look when the wet parts are rotted.

  Clive Barker

  Wall, Moon, Mirrors

  "The Great and Secret Show". Book by Clive Barker, August, 1989.

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• Relationships are like sharks. They've got to keep going into deeper, colder water, sometimes scarier, darker territories ... to stay alive.

  Richard Gere

  Water, Alive, Territory

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• No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things

  Ernest Hemingway

  Real, Book, Mean

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• Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.

  Saadi

  Fear, Thinking, Hands

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• I just believe that sometimes in life you're like a shark - you have to keep moving through water; otherwise, you'll die.

  Michelle Ryan

  Moving, Believe, Water

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• I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Reading, Swimming, Know How

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• Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Dollars, Tales, Billions

  "Shark Tales: How I Turned $1,000 Into a Billion Dollar Business". Book by Barbara Corcoran and Bruce Littlefield, February 9, 2011.

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• I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck. It's a shark-filled lagoon out there. Cross your fingers and watch your back.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Good Luck, Wish

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• EBay may be a shark in the ocean, but I'm a crocodile in the Yangtze River. If we fight in the ocean, we lose, but if we fight in the river, we win.

  Jack Ma

  Ocean, Fighting, Winning

  "Standing Up to Ebay" by Justin Doebele, www.forbes.com. April 18, 2005.

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• Seafood is simply a socially acceptable form of bush meat. We condemn Africans for hunting monkeys and mammalian and bird species from the jungle yet the developed world thinks nothing of hauling in magnificent wild creatures like swordfish, tuna, halibut, shark, and salmon for our meals. The fact is that the global slaughter of marine wildlife is simply the largest massacre of wildlife on the planet.

  Paul Watson

  Marine, Thinking, Hunting

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• Being able to turn to Jesus after the shark attack kept me alive.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Inspirational, Jesus, Alive

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• I discovered I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.

  Axl Rose

  Funny, Nature, Humorous

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• Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.

  Stanley Bing

  Business, Moving, Teeth

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• What I compare bike lanes to is swimming with the sharks. Sooner or later you're going to get bitten... Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks, not for people on bikes. My heart bleeds for them when I hear someone gets killed, but it's their own fault at the end of the day.

  Rob Ford

  Heart, Swimming, People

  Remarks on cyclist, bicycling.com, May 3, 2012.

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• It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of all mammals, a fifth of all reptiles, and a sixth of all birds are headed toward oblivion. The losses are occurring all over: in the South Pacific and in the North Atlantic, in the Arctic and the Sahel, in lakes and on islands, on mountaintops and in valleys.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Loss, Lakes, Islands

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.15, Bloomsbury Publishing

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