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paper-pushers can't figure me out. all they understand is bullshit and politics, which amounts to the same thing. — Peter Benchley

don't mind. I just thought you might not want to." The three men — Peter Benchley

Intellectually, they knew a great deal. Practically, they chose to know almost nothing. — Peter Benchley

You're gonna need a bigger boat. — Peter Benchley

I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins. — Peter Benchley

If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing. — Peter Benchley

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal. — Peter Benchley

God isn't going to scribble across the sky. The shark is gone. — Peter Benchley

odds might be good, but the stakes were prohibitively high. He — Peter Benchley

Ideas for stories come to me based on my life, so who knows? If somebody sends me to become an astronaut, that's what I'll end up writing. — Peter Benchley

We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us. — Peter Benchley

mean anything." She seemed subdued, sad. — Peter Benchley

To fantasies', he said. 'Tell me about yours.' His eyes were a bright, liquid blue, and his lips were parted in a half smile. — Peter Benchley

Ellen Brody:
Wanna get drunk and fool around?

Brody:
Oh Yeah. — Peter Benchley

Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival. — Peter Benchley

Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about. — Peter Benchley

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides. — Peter Benchley

Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could make you bleed to death. But they don't. — Peter Benchley

The great fish moved silently through the night water. — Peter Benchley

We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory - it's theirs. — Peter Benchley

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water ... — Peter Benchley

He felt at once betrayed and betrayer, deceived and deceiver. He was a criminal forced into crime, an unwilling whore. — Peter Benchley

We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them. — Peter Benchley

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct. — Peter Benchley

I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction. — Peter Benchley

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me. — Peter Benchley

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

Don't go into the water if you're bleeding - at all, from anything, anywhere on your body. — Peter Benchley

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future. — Peter Benchley

I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet. — Peter Benchley

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

I dive as much as I can. — Peter Benchley

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth. — Peter Benchley

I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything. — Peter Benchley

I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs. — Peter Benchley

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline. — Peter Benchley

What had once seemed shallow and tedious now loomed in memory like paradise. — Peter Benchley

Come up fish. Come to Quint. — Peter Benchley

We're going to need a bigger boat. — Peter Benchley

I hope that 'Jaws' will have brought sharks into the public interest at a time when we desperately need to reevaluate our care for the environment. — Peter Benchley

What was it? What could it
His last thought was surprise. — Peter Benchley

Hooper ladled chum, which sounded to Brody, every time it hit the water, like diarrhea. — Peter Benchley

Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain. — Peter Benchley

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks. — Peter Benchley

It's hard to care deeply for something that might turn on you and eat you. — Peter Benchley

I don't think there's such a thing as an unprovoked shark attack. — Peter Benchley