Because the Asian market is so omnivorous, it affects all the shark populations up and down the Central and South American coast,… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
There was a minor burst of macho nuttiness after 'Jaws' came out, in which people would go off in shark tournaments and… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
“Any weapon's only as good as the man using it, and a good man can make a good weapon out of most… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could make… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain. — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
“Intellectually, they knew a great deal. Practically, they chose to know almost nothing.” — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Oceanography is a terrific career because gradually we seem to be coming around to realize that we had better become as acquainted with the… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
“He felt at once betrayed and betrayer, deceived and deceiver. He was a criminal forced into crime, an unwilling whore.” — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
In a deeply tribal sense, we love our monsters, and I think that is the key to it right there. It is monsters; it… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
There was a minor burst of macho nuttiness after 'Jaws' came out, in which people would go off in shark tournaments and come back… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
The fish was an enemy. It had come upon the community and killed two men, a woman, and a child. The people of Amity… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
