Peter Benchley quotes and sayings
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Peter Benchley quotes
- I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.
- Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about.
- Ideas for stories come to me based on my life, so who knows? If somebody sends me to become an astronaut, that's what I'll end up writing.
- It's hard to care deeply for something that might turn on you and eat you.
- Because the Asian market is so omnivorous, it affects all the shark populations up and down the Central and South American coast, and to a certain extent the East Coast of the United States as well.
- I didn't invent the fear of sharks; it's as old as mankind, and that - to take that responsibility would mean that Mario Puzo should take the blame for the Mafia.
- If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.
- Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.
- I hope that 'Jaws' will have brought sharks into the public interest at a time when we desperately need to reevaluate our care for the environment.
- Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.