Peter Benchley Quotes

I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.

Peter Benchley

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• I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!

  

  Ed Harris
  • Family
  • History
  • Problems

• I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.

  

  Karla Souza
  • Night
  • Born
  • Owl

• You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mother
  • Inspiration
  • Suggestions

• I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Man
  • Technology
  • Wait

• It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Up
  • Movies
  • Building

• I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Book

• I wanted to greet people in Telugu, so I asked someone how to say 'How are you' in Telugu. In fact, I instructed my entire staff to speak to me only in Telugu. So, there were times when I would ask them to translate certain words for me in Hindi, but the effort paid off.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Words
  • Effort

• Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • Fun
  • Films
  • Fact

• I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Time
  • Long
  • Movie

• In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • World
  • Country
  • Alive

• One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Focus

• I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Great
  • Love
  • Yourself

• I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Style
  • Movies
  • Bag

• Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Me
  • Like
  • Quarter

• I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Say
  • Queen
  • Maybe

• Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Relationship
  • Obligation

• Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Dead
  • Witch
  • Wicked

• Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Best
  • Choices
  • Look

• I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My dad's a heart surgeon and goes to conferences all over the world. By the time I was seven, I traveled outside the country for the first time. We went to Paris. The next year, we went to London, and then Brussels.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Time
  • World
  • Parents

• Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever, Parting eternally.

  

  Edwin Arnold
  • Life
  • Men
  • Sea

• Fate has it in for me to be an exhibit: that funny old lady from the telly.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Funny
  • Fate

• I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn't go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • Up
  • May

• Idleness is an enemy of the soul.

  

  Benedict of Nursia
  • Soul
  • Enemy

• I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.

  

  Peter Benchley
  • Hurt
  • Sea