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Quotes About Shark

There was one, a Mr. Omuro, who had bought control of a great area of rental property in downtown San Francisco, and who for a time had been Frank's landlord. There was a bad apple, he thought. A shark who had never made repairs, had partitioned rooms smaller and smaller, raised rents
~ Philip K. Dick
when he smiled, displayed a set of white teeth which would have done credit to a shark.
~ Honore de Balzac
The swimmer and the shark whose life he has saved find themselves face to face. They look into each other's eyes for several minutes, and each is amazed to find such fierceness in the gaze of the other. They swim in a circle, not losing sight of each other, and they both say to themselves: 'I was wrong until now; here is one more wicked than I.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
Je suis fils de l'homme et de la femme, d'après ce qu'on m'a dit. Ça m'étonne... je croyais être davantage! Au reste, que m'importe d'où je viens? Moi, si cela avait pu dépendre de ma volonté, j'aurais voulu être plutôt le fils de la femelle du requin, dont la faim est amie des tempêtes, et du tigre, à la cruauté reconnue: je ne serais pas si méchant.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
The ethereal beauty of the female semblance conceals that they really are dangerous like a great white shark in the most peaceful and deep water.
~ Unknown
The stereotype imagines a Wall Street populated by bulls and bears. In reality, the Street itself is neither bull nor bear but shark, constantly shifting direction in an eternal search for food.
~ Unknown
I wish I were a shark so I could hold "cage tours" for people to see me.
~ Unknown
I wish I were a shark so humans would play with me with strange toys.
~ Unknown
Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes.
~ Luigi Pirandello
Is it a shark made of ice? Hanoen asked. Or a shark that lives in ice?
~ John Scalzi
And as luck would have it, a position opened up here." "It wasn't luck," Mbeke said. "It was a Longranian Ice Shark," Cassaway said.
~ John Scalzi
You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'.
~ Gary Larson
They call me, The Sharkalator
~ James Patterson
If you swim in the ocean every day for 100 years, you are more likely to be struck by lightning than swallowed by a shark.
~ Unknown
It is riskier to swim with another human than with a shark. Humans aren't just more likely to drown you - they're more likely to bite you.
~ Unknown
Television is a dirty business. To survive in it you have to be part weasel, part python, and part wolf. To succeed in it, you have to be 99.9 percent great white shark. The capacity for barefaced lying also comes in handy, particularly if you are freelance.
~ Unknown
If any man in the Gilded Age could best the shark, it would be a man who possessed Vanderbilt's wealth and Roosevelt's vigor and an unsurpassed reputation for prowess at sea. Such a man was Hermann Oelrichs.
~ Unknown
I blinked, and clamped my jaw shut to keep from answering, fishing through a school of thoughts like a greedy shark, watching them all dart just out of reach before I could sink my teeth into one.
~ Unknown
A shark without teeth is just a mermaid.
~ Paul Levine
A shark that can't bite is nothing but a mermaid.
~ Paul Levine
Don't go into the water if you're bleeding—at all, from anything, anywhere on your body.
~ Peter Benchley
At this point, if someone came in here and said he was Superman and he could piss that shark away from here, I'd say fine and dandy. I'd even hold his dick for him.
~ Peter Benchley