Jaws Quotes

116 Jaws quotes by 108 unique authors

Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet. — Pam Brown
It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost… — Edith Wharton
The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal; he is proud of the lustre of his coat, and cannot endure that a… — Champfleury
My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands. — Kin Hubbard
Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us...… — Joss Whedon
The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step… — Thomas Jefferson
Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still… — Ashley Scott
People think that I reached the top overnight; well, it took me fourteen years. I was twenty-nine before I really made it. I've had my… — Larry Holmes
I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about JAWS is that… — David Fincher
I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central… — Edward Abbey
Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released,… — Gautama Buddha
What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the… — William James
The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out… — Heinrich Heine
You have never seen such animals as these who without a sound or a sign carry you off. You race with them across the long… — Joy Williams
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 attacked… — Peter Benchley
Pasteur himself was absolutely fearless. Anxious to secure a sample of saliva straight from the jaws of a rabid dog, I once saw him with… — Axel Munthe
When the mouth is closed it looks very voluptuous, beautiful. But when it opens its jaws the tongue inside the mouth is more like a… — H R Giger
I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damn scoundrel, and if you were any… — Nathan Bedford Forrest
Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of… — Mahatma Gandhi
During Richard Nixon’s first term, when I served as secretary of defense, we withdrew U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the South’s ability to… — Melvin Laird
The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately, be very appealing. If you… — Mary Roach
Kipling said that Success and Failure are both imposters, and we should all listen to Kipling, if only because none of us are likely to… — Rupert Holmes
No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are… — Peter Benchley
Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my… — Richard Bach
Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl. — Saadi

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