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Quotes About Sharks

Out here in California, in the Pacific Ocean, the sharks have a bad attitude.
~ Katy Mixon
I've swam with great white sharks.
~ Rob James-Collier
Shanghai is an amazing city. The fans were so nice to my family and to myself and just treated us as their own. I'm extremely grateful to the Sharks for that opportunity.
~ Jimmer Fredette
Some eco groups suggest that as many as 73 million sharks are killed globally every year. Hammerheads, blue sharks, mako sharks - they're disappearing, and they ain't coming back.
~ Stephen Rodrick
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
Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could make you bleed to death. But they don't.
~ Peter Benchley
The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood.
~ Don Bluth
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
~ Ken Dodd
You're more likely to die from a falling coconut than from a shark attack, and more likely to die on your birthday than any other day of the year. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes and, over a lifetime, spends twenty-five years sleeping. About 11 percent of the population are left-handed. The most typical human face on Earth is that of a 28-year-old Chinese man.
~ David Darling
There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.
~ Charles Saatchi
I love shark week, all kids swim for free
~ Josh Stern
Sharks to not eat Chinese people because they get hungry thirty minutes later".
~ R. Alan Woods
I will write about the season of peril. I was put in hospital because a great gap opened in the ice floe between myself and the other people whom I watched, with their world, drifting away through a violet-coloured sea where hammerhead sharks in tropical ease swam side by side with the seals and the polar bears. I was alone on the ice.
~ Janet Frame
I could tell by their audible gasps that the people on the beach were jealous of me when I found five shark's teeth. Locating them wasn't really the problem, but pulling them out of my leg was.
~ Jarod Kintz
We're humans. We live on land. Sharks live in water. So if you're swimming in the water and a shark bites you, that's called trespassing. That is called trespassing. That is not a shark attack.
~ Gilbert Arenas
Most people catch them breaching from the surface when they're shooting out of the water. I have them breaching from underwater in a 16-time sequence, a shark leaving the water and then reentering the water.
~ Michael Muller
Sharks don't particularly have a great interest in divers. It seemed that in a normal dive, I would jump in the water, and one or two gray reef sharks would swim in and kind of check me out - and then they would keep their distance. So they weren't particularly threatening or anything to be afraid of.
~ Brian Skerry
I don't use cages - I've been surrounded by 150 to 200 sharks, not once ever been close to being bitten.
~ Michael Muller
I think the 'Jaws' shark and the 'Shark Night' shark would fall in love and make sweet babies.
~ Chris Carmack
I don't like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by 'Jaws.'
~ David Duchovny
When you retire, you don't get fat and old. C'mon: it's like a shark. Sharks never stop swimming; that's when they die. You gotta keep moving.
~ Reggie Miller
Just stay still, if you stay still it can't find you. That's sharks, you idiot. Sharks and dinosaurs. This isn't Jurassic Park.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Only the debris of wreckage, and not much of that, was left behind by the sharks who fed on tragedy: the fishermen, too, mourned the death of a living child.
~ William Trevor
If the world's oceans have had nearly half a billion years with sharks as the apex predators, then the delicate balance of its food webs must rely on their presence in complex ways we cannot possibly predict.
~ Steve Backshall