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Quotes About Shark

Every soul is like a minnow Every mind is like a shark
~ Leonard Cohen
How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark. A whale isn't a fish, Thursday. A whale shark is--sort of. All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish. A crayfish isn't a fish. A starfish, then. Still not a fish. This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.
~ Jasper Fforde
I love pool because it's a game of strategy, a game of the eye, and your whole universe is like this. I really want to become a pool shark.
~ Peggy Lipton
Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.
~ Jeremy Piven
I was scarred in 1977 by watching Jaws, and I've never got over it.
~ Greg Davies
It wasn't Glen's jealousy that surprised him. "You owe Roy money?" "Yep. Borrowed it to get my truck painted." "Roy's a loan shark, too?" "You ever see JAWS ?" Snakebite asked. Glen said he had. "How 'bout THE GODFATHER ?" "Yeah." "Well, if Michael Corleone waded out in the ocean and fucked that shark, then you'd have old Roy." from the Tom Franklin short story "Grit" (page 31) from POACHERS:STORIES
~ Unknown
Right, Tsunami thought. "Soft" is definitely how I'd describe Shark.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Shark snorts. " Hope ? What's that? I heard about it once, in a fairy tale.
~ Darren Shan
Yes, but in this case, the fatality was a shark. The tractor-trailer was carrying four sharks from the Florida Keys to an aquarium in Coney Island in New York City and one of the sharks was ejected during the crash. Fortunately, it didn't hit anybody, but the fact remains that there was, briefly, an airborne shark on Interstate 95, and it could have hit a car, which would have been tragic, by which I mean pretty funny.
~ Dave Barry
There's less need to slowly acclimate these guys to the tank," Bailey said. "They'll be food pretty soon, so their happiness is less important than the shark's.
~ Dave Eggers
Prince Cardan watched me all night, a shark restlessly circling, waiting for the right moment to bite. Even now I can conjure the memory of the scorched black of his eyes. And if I laughed louder for the sake of angering him, if I smiled wider, and kissed Locke longer, that is a kind of deceit that even the Folk cannot condemn.
~ Holly Black
Hey, Hazel?" he called softly in the upstairs hall, and she turned. "What did he kiss like?" There was a confusion of emotions on his face—longing and maybe a little jealousy and a whole lot of curiosity. She snorted a surprised laugh, her bad mood dissolving. "Like he was a shark and I was blood in the water." "That good?" he asked, grinning.
~ Holly Black
However, if a person bothers a shark it will fight back and will cause severe injuries, or even kill a person. It is best to leave this shark
~ Unknown
After the Versailles treaty, the U.S. could have chosen to become a global economic loan shark, but we didn't, and let a lot of the tab slide. So not all lending and borrowing is bad.
~ Louis Navellier
I smiled at her, my most comforting, challenging, I'm-not-really-a-shark smile.
~ Jeff Lindsay
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.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Let's be perfectly clear, shall we. The fox is not a little orange puppy dog with doe eyes and a waggly tail. It's a disease-ridden wolf with the morals of a psychopath and the teeth of a great white shark.
~ Jeremy Clarkson
I get asked to do panel shows, and reality stuff, like getting in a cage with a shark. I got asked to do a 'Strictly' special, but it's not my bag. If I'm being interviewed, that's OK, but anything else fills me with dread.
~ Suranne Jones
I swam with my first shark in the 1980s. I was 20 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, working with a group of marine scientists. Late in the day, a 5-foot long blue shark swam into our chum slick. For the next hour, I marveled at the animal's stunning indigo color and the elegant way she moved effortlessly through the sea.
~ Brian Skerry
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~ Unknown
A lawyer is basically a mouth, like a shark is a mouth attached to a long gut. The business of lawyers is to talk, to interrupt one another, and to devour each other if possible.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...
~ Peter Benchley
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
Come up fish. Come to Quint.
~ Peter Benchley