Quotes About Predator

He smirked at me. "Channel Hog," he said. "Biggest goddamned hammerhead shark known to man. Over twenty feet long, and always hungry. I truly would not recommend taking a swim out there, buddy.

He just got wiser, darker, as wounded predators do.

But their unsub might have underestimated her. She glanced about now with the predatory stare of a hawk, knowing she had one huge advantage over the victims. She didn't have to slip into the mind of a killer. She was the great-granddaughter of a killer. The granddaughter of a killer. And the daughter of a serial killer. She had survived among them and was well equipped to hunt them.

The future haunted but kept her alive; it remained her sustenance and also her predator.

Una vez había visto volar por encima del estuario a una garza que intentaba, mientras estaba en el aire, tragarse una anguila que acababa de pescar. La anguila, a su vez, luchaba por escapar del gaznate de la garza, y se le veía un cuarto, la mitad o, en ocasiones, tres cuartos del cuerpo colgando. La indecisión que expresaban ambas criaturas era lastimosa. Se habían propuesto demasiado.

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.

The great fish moved silently through the night water.

Sharks are like ax-murderers, Martin. People react to them with their guts. There's something crazy and evil and uncontrollable about them.

When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar.

We were swimmers in a dusty yellow smell and sometimes overpower with the occasional stink of dung. If it was from a herbivore, the dung would have a grassy smell. If it was from a predator, it had a darker stink, sometimes so bad I could smell it in the helmet. Some of the piles of dung were as tall as Marley and moist though fortunately not steaming that would have meant we were way close to something dangerous.

Within-species sexual conflict arms races are analogous to arms races between predators and prey.

Nothing feels better than being singled out by something that at best should fear you and at worst would like to eat you.

Someone once told me that time is a predator that stalks us all our lives. I'd rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment, because they'll never come again.

So you see, if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry- be assured, zoo animals are amply fed- or because it's blood thirsty, but because you've invaded it's territory.

there's a terrible silence before a predator's night sometimes an absurd airplane appears in the sky it throws out leaflets calling for surrender I would be happy to surrender but I've no one to surrender to

That the female of the species is deadlier than the male. —Rudyard Kipling

We've forgotten that we were once prey, not predator -- forgotten the intense terror, the claustrophobic horror .../ ... The ALIENATION ...

Too much kindness towards the fox may mean doom for the rabbit.

Demasiada amabilidad para con el zorro podría significar la perdición para el conejo.

We're wolves, boy, and a wolf doesn't ask for the goat it kills.

A trademark of something that works well, the cat body has hardly changed since its inception. Like with today's cats, their digestive systems could handle only flesh. The lesson of the cat is that if you are to become a full-fledged carnivore, you have to commit everything to it. A house cat fed vegetarian food will shrivel and die.

Mountain lions are psychological animals, preying on the mind with secret eyes. They know that they still dominate, that they cannot be cornered without ripping their way out. They know that they are still the heart of firceness. Being pack animals ourselves, we humans have some alliance with other pack animals, like wolves or coyotes. When I see a free wolf, I feel as if we could sit down and talk, given that the details have been worked out. Not so with the cat. The cat speaks in symbols.

The quoll is like the Australian version of the honey badger. It's a little mongrel that gets around and is pretty fierce and will take on a few things. You don't want to get that in your campsite.

Books are sharks... because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.