Peter Benchley Quotes

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

Peter Benchley

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• Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Sometimes
  • Laugh
  • I Can

• Fashion breaks my heart.

  

  Kanye West
  • Heart
  • Fashion
  • Breaks

• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Work
  • Great
  • Experience

• Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Life
  • Man
  • Food

• Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Value
  • Like
  • Proverbs

• You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Perfect
  • Tired
  • Mood

• I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Book
  • Happy
  • College

• I don't think that I could have survived in my family without a naughty sense of humor; yeah, absolutely. I think my brother and I both get our senses of humor from our parents. I mean, my mother was absolutely hilarious and foul. She had the most ridiculously off color sense of humor, so that was sort of what we grew up with.

  

  Rachael MacFarlane
  • Up
  • Family
  • She

• No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • Thinking
  • Simple
  • Problem

• I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Strong
  • Always
  • Inspire

• I have entered on an enterprise which is without precedent, and will have no imitator. I propose to show my fellows a man as nature made him, and this man shall be myself.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Nature

• One moves more slowly in heels. Walking fast is neither sexy nor engaging. Nobody notices the people who race around. If you're walking in heels, you've got time. It's much more attractive.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • People
  • Time
  • Walking

• I was putting all those pressures on myself.

  

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

• I traveled nonstop in 2009, so when my son popped out and my passport expired for a while, I felt more than happy just to be at home here in Canada.

  

  Emm Gryner
  • Home
  • Happy
  • Son

• Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Love
  • Hope
  • For Her

• As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve the health care crisis facing our Nation by themselves.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Work
  • Important
  • Community

• I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

  

  Joan Miro
  • Music
  • Words

• Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

  

  Epicurus
  • Remember

• The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.

  

  John Templeton
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Sea

• We do not argue with the critic who urges that the stars are not hot enough for this process; we tell him to go and find a hotter place.

  

  Arthur Eddington

• Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

  

  Mel Brooks
  • Life
  • Death
  • Jump

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

  

  Peter Benchley