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

• For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.

  

  Beah Richards
  • Life
  • Live
  • Challenge

• 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

• Life is full of joys and sorrows, much of it our own making. Sadly, the West has voted time and time again for bigger government, more inflation, higher taxes and excessive regulation - all policies that have kept us from Adam Smith's vision of an opulent society.

  

  Mark Skousen
  • Life
  • Time
  • Society

• 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

• When I read a good story, I often start thinking, 'Should I live my life according to what this character chooses and values?' It makes me think. I feel like I grew up to be a more mature person while thinking about character development in these fictional situations.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • American
  • Freedom
  • Passion

• 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

• Bloodshed kept pace with iron production: in essence, the entire paleotechnic period was ruled, from beginning to end, by the policy of blood and iron. The brutal contempt for life was equalled only by the the almost priestly ritual it developed for inflicting death. Its 'peace' was indeed the peace that passeth understanding: what was it but latent warfare.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

• Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves, and they're younger and cool. I'm not quite sure I could ever write songs like any of them, but if I could, I would.

  

  Jennifer Damiano
  • Amazing
  • Cool

• Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Freedom
  • Hatred
  • Satisfy

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

  

  Peter Benchley