You're gonna need a bigger boat. Peter Benchley More Quotes by Peter Benchley More Quotes From Peter Benchley Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water. Peter Benchley safe water I dive as much as I can. Peter Benchley i-can 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 sharks crazy evil I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything. Peter Benchley inanimate-objects blame believe He would have lied to himself as facilely as an alcoholic lies to himself to justify the 10 a.m. tumbler of vodka : it may be early here, but in Baghdad it's almost evening. Peter Benchley baghdad may lying I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal. Peter Benchley suicidal hopeful suicide Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth. Peter Benchley ocean earth would-be The great fish moved silently through the night water. Peter Benchley fishes water night A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by shark attack. We do not execute the perpretrators of death by car. We should not butcher an animal for an inadvertent homicide. Peter Benchley die car animal death 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 chat about just fear 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 ocean time forget water If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance. Peter Benchley river walk desert mountain We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us. Peter Benchley us afraid sharks half 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 will care hope time I don't think there's such a thing as an unprovoked shark attack. Peter Benchley shark thing attack think 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 you feet long death It is not that I don't have a fear of sharks, it is that I have a respect for them, so that I know any more than if I were to go into the jungle, I would have a fear of tigers, that I would try to lower the odds. Peter Benchley know jungle respect fear I didn't invent the fear of sharks; it's as old as mankind, and that - to take that responsibility would mean that Mario Puzo should take the blame for the Mafia. Peter Benchley old blame responsibility fear
