100+ Sharks Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Oceans Activist Ted Danson on California's Shark Fin Ban (Exclusive Q&A)". Interview with Degen Pener, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 10, 2011.

topic: Ocean, Sharks, Years

The only use for a knife during a shark attack is pure treachery: Stab your buddy, swim like hell, and hope the munchies take him.

- Tim Cahill

topic: Sharks, Knives, Swim, Shark Attacks

I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.

- Tracy Morgan

topic: Strong, Powerful, Sharks

Live every week like it's shark week.

- Tracy Morgan

topic: Sharks, Week

If you are in the job for glamour, you're in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool.

- Trisha Goddard

topic: Jobs, Sharks, Media

Only the strongest players can swim in the shark-infested waters of the Masters' Seas.

- Victor Niederhoffer

source: Victor Niederhoffer (1998). “The Education of a Speculator”, p.168, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Player, Sea, Sharks

I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo.

- Wyndham Lewis

source: Wyndham Lewis (1967). “Blasting & Bombardiering”, p.12, Univ of California Press

topic: Running, Zoos, Sharks, Sardonic

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

- Alan Clark

source: 1990 Diary entry, 30 Nov.

topic: True Friend, Sharks, Blood, No True Friends

Some people like being a big fish in a small pond, others a ferocious shark in the ocean, I rather be the ocean. In the end, fish die.

- Behdad Sami

topic: Ocean, Sharks, People

And it was there that I saw the most appealing creature in the whole shop. He had a slight chink out of one foot and his 'topknot' was missing (a 'topknot' is on the top of a dragon's head and looks a bit like a shark's fin) but I bought him in an instant.

- Chris d'Lacey

topic: Dragons, Sharks, Feet, Fins, Chinks

Sharks attack surfers because they look like a seal. Apparently, when you're layng on your board and you have your arms and legs hanging off, from underneath you look like a seal. So I just got a picture of a seal and put a red line through it and put it underneath my board.

- Henry Cho

topic: Sharks, Red, Boards, Arms And Legs, Red Lines

You can't afford to make the shark look good so you do most of it with ominous music and a fin.

- Jim Howick

source: Source: www.denofgeek.com

topic: Sharks, Looks, Fins

When you come to 'Shark Tank,' the only person you should listen to is me, because you know you're getting the truth. I'll decide if it's worth it, and after I'm finished, the rest of the people can look into it.

- Kevin O'Leary

topic: Sharks, People, Tanks

I thought beforehand, if [Marie] Henein is going to be a shark, I'm going to be a jellyfish, because you can't catch a jellyfish. Not that I didn't want to be caught, I just wanted to present solid.

- Lucy DeCoutere

topic: Sharks, Want, Caught, Jellyfish

Anything in the entertainment business, there's sharks coming around. It's about staying true to yourself and making sure that, when you look in the mirror, you're happy with what you see.

- O'Shea Jackson, Jr.

topic: Mirrors, Sharks, Looks, Entertainment Business, Stay True To Yourself

When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die.

- Adam Shankman

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Creativity, Swimming, Sharks

With acting, there are a lot of subtleties and non-verbals involved. If someone is over there, getting eaten by a shark, there's a non-verbal way of how to act that. There's a certain nuance to acting that does not come intuitively to me. It's something I still have to learn.

- Mark McGrath

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Sharks, Acting, Doe

Setting off unknown to face the unknown, against parental opposition, with no money, friends, or influence, ran it a close second. Clichés like "blazing trails," flying over "shark-infected seas," "battling with monsoons," and "forced landings amongst savage tribes" became familiar diet for breakfast. Unknown names became household words, whilst others, those of the failures, were forgotten utterly except by kith and kin.

- Amy Johnson

topic: Sharks, Sea, Names, Monsoons

The ground is my ocean, I’m the shark, and most people don’t even know how to swim.

- Carlos Machado

topic: Ocean, Sharks, People

That's not news! When a shark comes out of the water, walks into a 7-11, and bites you in the ass, then it's news!

- Carlos Mencia

source: TV Series "Mind of Mencia", www.imdb.com. (2005- ).

topic: Sharks, Water, News

I often prefer the shapes within the raw materials to ‘do their thing’, as this makes it movre interesting for me. Sometimes a piece of hubcap fits in such a way that the shark becomes almost alive in my hands, climbing, twisting or just hanging motionless and predatory, and this gives me a buzz. It makes me feel like a vehicle for the creation process rather than a controller, and not knowing the exact outcome is exciting.

- Ptolemy

topic: Knowing, Climbing, Sharks, Predatory

In the Mediterranean of my childhood, there were no large groupers, sharks, or whales. All I saw was seaweed and a few fish, smaller than my little diving mask. All the large animals were gone, simply because we had eaten them.

- Enric Sala

topic: Animal, Sharks, Whales, Seaweed

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

- Patrick Rothfuss

topic: Reading, Swimming, Sharks

When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.

- Lewis Carroll

source: Lewis Carroll (1913). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.62, PDFreeBooks.org

topic: Gay, Sharks, Voice, Contemptuous

The only thing on the mind of a shark is to eat.

- Lil Wayne

topic: Sharks, Mind

Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine.

- Cher

topic: Sharks, Acting, Machines

I hate the beach - I'm a mountain guy. I'd much rather face a bear than a shark.

- Jeff Dunham

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Beach, Hate, Sharks

I swear on St. Francis, the patron saint of all animals.” Seeing Poppy’s hesitation, Beatrix added enthusiastically, “If a band of pirates kidnapped me and took me to their ship and threatened to make me walk the plank over a shiver of starving sharks unless I told them your secret, I still wouldn’t tell it. If I were tied by a villain and thrown before a herd of stampeding horses all shod in iron, and the only way to keep from being trampled was to tell the villain your secret, I—

- Lisa Kleypas

source: Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.54, Macmillan

topic: Horse, Animal, Sharks

My position is this. If we can't protect sanctuaries, if we can't save the whales, the sharks, the fish, our oceans will die.

- Paul Watson

topic: Ocean, Sharks, Whales

I think I'm a bit like a kind of shark, that if I stop swimming, I won't be able to breathe, something like that.

- Alan Moore

source: "Boy from the boroughs". Interview with Pádraig Ó Méalóid, www.3ammagazine.com. March 17, 2011.

topic: Swimming, Thinking, Sharks

I did 50 takes on Robert Shaw assembling the Greener Gun on 'Jaws.' The shark wasn't working, so I just kept shooting to make the production report look like we were accomplishing something and to keep cast and crew from going crazy from boredom. It was a strategic indulgence.

- Steven Spielberg

source: Source: www.indiewire.com

topic: Crazy, Gun, Sharks, Assembling, Greener

Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.

- Peter Benchley

topic: Sharks, Target, Grudge

Even a mentally challenged shark would figure out that sea turtles did not wear boxer shorts printed in flying piggies, and no sea turtle would be yattering streams of obscenities between chain-smoker gasps of breath.

- Christopher Moore

source: Christopher Moore (2009). “Island Of The Sequined Love Nun: A Novel”, p.173, Hachette UK

topic: Turtles, Sharks, Sea, Piggy, Sea Turtle

Winter near the shore is cold. The wind kicks up a salty mist and elephant seals come to shore to trumpet and rut and birth their pups. Retired people put sweaters on their lap dogs and drag them down the street on retractable leashes in a nightly parade of doggy humiliation. Surfers don their wetsuits against the chill of storm waves and white sharks adjust their diets to include shrink-wrapped dude-snacks on fiberglass crackers.

- Christopher Moore

topic: Dog, Winter, Sharks, Lap Dogs, Pups

We still have 10 percent of the sharks. We still have half of the coral reefs. However, if we wait another 50 years, opportunities might well be gone.

- Sylvia Earle

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Opportunity, Sharks, Years, Coral Reefs

There is this sweet spot in time when we have an opportunity to stop killing sharks and tunas and swordfish and other wildlife in the sea before it's too late.

- Sylvia Earle

source: "Her Majesty of the Deep Blue Sea: An Interview with Dr. Sylvia Earle, Part One". Interview with Dan Linehan, www.mission-blue.org. January 23, 2013.

topic: Sweet, Opportunity, Sharks, Before It's Too Late

Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.

- Sylvia Earle

topic: Sharks, Sea, Ecosystems, Extraction

We still have the illusion that the ocean will recover. That even if we do have to lose sharks, people don't understand why this matters. The evidence is in front of us, and we fail to take it in and say, "Now I get it. Now I understand."

- Sylvia Earle

source: "Her Majesty of the Deep Blue Sea: An Interview with Dr. Sylvia Earle, Part One". Interview with Dan Linehan, www.mission-blue.org. January 23, 2013.

topic: Ocean, Sharks, People

Since I began exploring the ocean in the 1950s, 90 percent of the big fish have been stripped away. Tuna, sharks, swordfish, cod, halibut, you name it, the numbers have just collapsed. Also, about half of the coral reefs are gone, globally, from where they were just a few decades ago.

- Sylvia Earle

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Ocean, Sharks, Names, Coral Reefs, Halibut

By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.

- Sylvia Earle

topic: Turtles, Sharks, Years, Overfishing

I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls 'tomorrow's child,' asking why we didn't do something on our watch to save sharks and bluefin tuna and squids and coral reefs and the living ocean while there still was time. Well, now is that time.

- Sylvia Earle

topic: Children, Ocean, Sharks, Coral Reefs, Asking Why

You're more likely to drown in the sea of sameness than get eaten by a shark while navigating new waters.

- Amy Jo Martin

source: Twitter post from Aug 29, 2014

topic: Sharks, Sea, Water, Sameness

We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat.

- Margaret Atwood

source: Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

topic: Sharks, Lifeboats, Has Beens

What we share may be a lot like a traffic accident but we get one another. We are survivors of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Sharks, Survivor, May, Lifeboats

I've always been freaked out in deep open water if there's a potential of sharks around.

- Theo James

source: "‘Divergent’ Interview: Theo James Talks Personal Fears & Complex Characters". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. March 17, 2014.

topic: Sharks, Water, Ifs

Writing and performing are to me what water and movement are to sharks.

- Rachael Yamagata

source: Interview with Monica Melsness, nicheandnook.com. November 3, 2015.

topic: Writing, Sharks, Water

The pointless snide remarks of hammerheaded sharks

- Thom Yorke

topic: Sharks, Remarks, Pointless

By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.74, Harvard University Press

topic: Angel, Men, Sharks, Deluge, Future Possibilities

The reason I do Shark Tank isn't to try take make more money of the deals, even though every deal I want to make money off of and even more so I want the entrepreneurs to be very successful and make money, but Shark Tank sends a message to everybody that the American Dream is alive and well.

- Mark Cuban

topic: Dream, Successful, Sharks

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

- Dave Barry

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Football, Intelligent, Sharks, Shirt Off, City Of Chicago

I have come up with a sure-fire concept for a hit television show, which would be called `A Live Celebrity Gets Eaten by a Shark'.

- Dave Barry

source: Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.171, Ballantine Books

topic: Fire, Sharks, Would Be

I'm actually very scared of sharks. I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was young, which may not have been compatible with that fear.

- Gillian Anderson

source: "X-Files Archive: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in conversation". Interview with Nick De Semlyen, www.empireonline.com. January 1, 2013.

topic: Marine, Sharks, May, Biologist, Marine Biologist

My tattoo is a cross, a rose and a shark. A cross is a cross, a rose like love and a shark is a pretty tough animal.

- Goran Ivanisevic

topic: Tattoo, Animal, Sharks

I didn't care about the backlash. I think the reason it was so severe was because they didn't know anything about me in New Zealand. If I had made jokes about a shark attack in the US, no one would have cared.

- Anthony Jeselnik

topic: Thinking, Sharks, Care, Shark Attacks

Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.

- Tom Robbins

source: "Still Life with Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, 1980.

topic: Sharks, Sea, Dolphins, Still Life With Woodpecker

There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second is the immortality of the human soul; and the third is a future state of rewards and punishments. Suppose it possible for a man to disbelieve either of these three articles of faith and that man will have no conscience, he will have no other law than that of the tiger or the shark. The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

- John Quincy Adams

source: Abigail Adams, John Quincy Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1848). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.432, Boston, Wilkins, Carter,

topic: Wise, Men, Sharks, Moral Virtues, Reward And Punishment

Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.

- David Mitchell

topic: Love, Sharks, Joy

Relationships are like sharks. They've got to keep going into deeper, colder water, sometimes scarier, darker territories ... to stay alive.

- Richard Gere

topic: Sharks, Water, Alive

I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get all gooey. I start salivating.

- Tori Amos

topic: Death, Sharks, Obsession, Crocodiles

I give [Barack Obama] a 10 [on a scale of 1 to 10] because he's not God, and he inherited a couple of wars, and a financial mess.I want to see him curse somebody out on TV. You can't finesse a bull. He's gotta throw down. He's in the shark tank.

- Tracy Morgan

topic: Couple, War, Sharks, Finesse

I'm afraid of sharks - but only in a water situation.

- Demetri Martin

source: "All quirk and no pay" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2003.

topic: Sharks, Water, Situation

I am a shark, Cassie," he says slowly, drawing the words out, as if he might be speaking to me for the last time. Looking into my eyes with tears in his, as if he's seeing me for the last time. "A shark who dreamed he was a man.

- Rick Yancey

source: Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.307, Penguin

topic: Eye, Men, Sharks

He asks me what happened to my leg. I told him I was shot by a shark. He doesn't react. Doesn't seem confused or amused or anything. Like getting shot by a shark is a perfectly natural thing in the aftermath of the arrival.

- Rick Yancey

source: Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.385, Penguin

topic: Confused, Sharks, Aftermath, Perfectly Natural

I am a shark, the ground is my ocean, and most people can't even swim.

- Rickson Gracie

topic: Ocean, Sharks, People, Mixed Martial Arts

I'm like a shark, right at the top of the food chain. I take what I want, when I want. I truly am the reflection of perfection.

- Ricky Martin

source: "The Apprentice: Grace Dent's TV OD" by Grace Dent, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2012.

topic: Reflection, Sharks, Perfection, Apprentice

Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

source: "Preying on the Poor". www.tomdispatch.com. May 17, 2012.

topic: Taken, Sharks, Roles, Street Corners, Payday

Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by holding her hand against the sun, and so brought darkness and desolation, like God himself, to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures, and then took her hand away suddenly and let the sun stream down.

- Virginia Woolf

source: Virginia Woolf (2015). “To the Lighthouse”, p.58, Virginia Woolf

topic: Clouds, Sharks, Hands, Desolation, Minnows

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

topic: Sharks, Long, Mouths

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries.

- Robert Kiyosaki

topic: Gun, Sharks, People, Fries, French Fries

Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men.

- Jules Verne

source: Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.120, Jules Verne

topic: Sleep, Men, Sharks

What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives.

- Bernie Sanders

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Wall, Sharks, People, Predatory

Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.

- Herman Melville

source: Herman Melville (2015). “Annotated Moby Dick or, the Whale with English Grammar Exercises: by Herman Melville (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.438, Powell Publications, LLC

topic: War, Sharks, Sea, Remorseless, Dainty

I'm a blowfish. I'm not a shark, I'm a blowfish.

- Kanye West

source: "Kanye West: A Brand-New Ye". Interview with Zach Baron, www.gq.com. July 20, 2014.

topic: Stupid, Sharks, Blowfish

So the hotel tells us that it is not safe to go in the water because its shark mating time. I know how I'd feel if someone interrupted me.

- Bill Engvall

source: Twitter post from May 29, 2013

topic: Sharks, Water, Safe, Mating

Being nearly naked around Barrons felt a lot like going to a shark convention lightly basted in blood.

- Karen Marie Moning

source: Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.115, Delacorte Press