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Jaws (Jaws #1) QUOTES

Jaws (Jaws #1) QUOTES

1 " Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful―God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They're as graceful as any bird. They're as mysterious as any animal on earth. No one knows for sure how long they live or what impulses―except for hunger―they respond to. There are more than two hundred and fifty species of shark, and everyone is different from every other one. "

― Peter Benchley , Jaws (Jaws #1)

2 " 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. "

― Peter Benchley , Jaws (Jaws #1)

3 " 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 , Jaws (Jaws #1)

4 " 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. It's depressing if you spend too much time reliving old joys. You think you'll never have anything as good again. "

― Peter Benchley , Jaws (Jaws #1)

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

― Peter Benchley , Jaws (Jaws #1)

6 " 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 , Jaws (Jaws #1)

7 " The fish was an enemy. It had come upon the community and killed two men, a woman, and a child. The people of Amity would demand the death of the fish. They would need to see it dead before they could feel secure enough to resume their normal lives. "

― Peter Benchley , Jaws (Jaws #1)

8 " Brody felt a shimmy of fear skitter up his back. He was a very poor swimmer, and the prospect of being on top of—let alone in—water above his head give him what his mother used to call the wimwams: sweaty palms, a persistent need to swallow, and a ache in his stomach—essentially the sensation some people feel about flying. In Brody's dreams, deep water was populated by slimy, savage things that rose from below and shredded his flesh, by demons that cackled and moaned. "

― Peter Benchley , Jaws (Jaws #1)

9 " The fish might well have disappeared already, but Brody wasn't willing to gamble lives on the possibility: the odds might be good, but the stakes were prohibitively high. "

― Peter Benchley , Jaws (Jaws #1)

10 " God isn't going to scribble across the sky. "The shark is gone. "

― Peter Benchley , Jaws (Jaws #1)

11 " Suppose you fell over with this fish. Is there anything you could do? Sure. Pray. It'd be like falling out of an airplane without a parachute and hoping you'll land in a haystack. The only thing that'd save you would be God, and since He pushed you overboard in the first place, I wouldn't give a nickel for your chances. "

― Peter Benchley , Jaws (Jaws #1)

12 " Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water... "

― Peter Benchley , Jaws (Jaws #1)

13 " The great fish moved silently through the night water. "

― Peter Benchley , Jaws (Jaws #1)

14 " 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. It’s depressing if you spend too much time reliving the old joys. You think you’ll never have anything as good again. "

― Peter Benchley , Jaws (Jaws #1)

15 " Come up fish. Come to Quint. "

― Peter Benchley , Jaws (Jaws #1)

16 " 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 , Jaws (Jaws #1)

17 " What had once seemed shallow and tedious now loomed in memory like paradise. "

― Peter Benchley , Jaws (Jaws #1)

18 " Hooper ladled chum, which sounded to Brody, every time it hit the water, like diarrhea. "

― Peter Benchley , Jaws (Jaws #1)

19 " ...pot roast. It could be reheated. It might
taste like a sneaker, but it would be warm. "

― Peter Benchley , Jaws (Jaws #1)

20 " The young man was tall and slim. He wore sandals and a bathing suit and a short-sleeved shirt with an alligator emblem stitched to the left breast, which caused Brody to take an instant, instinctive dislike to the man. In his adolescence Brody had thought of those shirts as badges of wealth and position. All the summer people wore them. Brody badgered his mother until she bought him one—“a two-dollar shirt with a six-dollar lizard on it,” she said. "

― Peter Benchley , Jaws (Jaws #1)