Quotes About Sharks

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

There may be no visible threat and yet you can feel utterly terrified. It's all intense suspense, no action. It's like Jaws without the shark. But often there are sharks. Metaphorical, invisible sharks.. Maybe we would cope with the world better if we knew where those sharks were.

They're like sharks. Circling. Cute, single guy, good job, nice car. It's all they know about me." His tone was light but his expression serious. Maybe that's because it's all you show them." Maybe it's all they want to see.

In a study of great white shark behavior by George Burgess and Matthew Callahan using data from the International Shark Attack File, no other humans were within ten feet of the victim in 85 percent of the attacks.

poverty is not the result of rapacious financiers exploiting the poor. It has much more to do with the lack of financial institutions, with the absence of banks, not their presence. Only when borrowers have access to efficient credit networks can they escape from the clutches of loan sharks, and only when savers can deposit their money in reliable banks can it be channelled from the idle rich to the industrious poor.

God, I hate this place. I mean, I love it. It's home. These are my people. But I hate it. It's like an island surrounded by sharks—except that sharks don't bother you unless you go in the water. But our land sharks are on their way in. It's just a matter of how long it takes for them to get hungry enough.

Stock market bigbulls know that most small investors are waiting for the correction or market crash to happen, so these big sharks are taking up the benefit of this opportunity to artificially inflate share prices almost every day.

Consider the credibility of your source before you take his or her criticism seriously. And remember, there are always a few sharks cruising around, looking for raw meat. Don't feed them, or they're sure to come back" (p. 224).

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

good lawyer is part con man, part priest—promising riches, threatening hell. The rainmakers are the best paid among us and have coined a remarkably candid phrase: We eat what we kill. Hey, they don't call us sharks for our ability to swim.

Just so you know,' I explained, remembering my own earlier arrogance, 'if you've ever owned a cat and therefore think you know how to handle a puma, you don't. It would be like playing with sharks because you once owned a goldfish.

seen Blue Water, White Death, the 1971 feature film that, for me, remains the finest documentary ever made about sharks.