If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a rive...
PETER BENCHLEY Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.
PETER BENCHLEY Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could m...
PETER BENCHLEY Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.
PETER BENCHLEY If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extin...
PETER BENCHLEY We are already perilously close to killing off the top of the oceanic food chain - with catastrophic...
PETER BENCHLEY We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fabl...
PETER BENCHLEY A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile acci...
PETER BENCHLEY Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.
PETER BENCHLEY If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosio...
PETER BENCHLEY I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs...
PETER BENCHLEY Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solit...
PETER BENCHLEY We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean...
PETER BENCHLEY Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife ...
PETER BENCHLEY I hope that 'Jaws' will have brought sharks into the public interest at a time when we despe...
PETER BENCHLEY In a deeply tribal sense, we love our monsters, and I think that is the key to it right there. It is...
PETER BENCHLEY I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.
PETER BENCHLEY I didn't invent the fear of sharks; it's as old as mankind, and that - to take that responsi...
PETER BENCHLEY You're much more likely to be attacked by lightning or by your own toilet than you are by a shark,
PETER BENCHLEY What was it? What could it--

His last thought was surprise.
PETER BENCHLEY You're gonna need a bigger boat.
PETER BENCHLEY Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.
PETER BENCHLEY I don't think there's such a thing as an unprovoked shark attack.
PETER BENCHLEY I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
PETER BENCHLEY It is not that I don't have a fear of sharks, it is that I have a respect for them, so that I kn...
PETER BENCHLEY The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never...
PETER BENCHLEY The fish was an enemy. It had come upon the community and killed two men, a woman, and a child. The ...
PETER BENCHLEY There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their ins...
PETER BENCHLEY I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.
ROBERT BENCHLEY In America there are two classes of travel--first class, and with children.
ROBERT BENCHLEY Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fa...
ROBERT BENCHLEY This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promot...
ROBERT BENCHLEY Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
ROBERT BENCHLEY It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up bec...
ROBERT BENCHLEY For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, w...
ROBERT BENCHLEY A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
ROBERT BENCHLEY A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
ROBERT BENCHLEY Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
ROBERT BENCHLEY It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I coudn't give it up beca...
ROBERT BENCHLEY The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
ROBERT BENCHLEY It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up, because...
ROBERT BENCHLEY The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
ROBERT BENCHLEY As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.
ROBERT BENCHLEY I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one t...
ROBERT BENCHLEY There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the w...
ROBERT BENCHLEY Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
ROBERT BENCHLEY I must get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini.
ROBERT BENCHLEY Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with it's just compounding t...
ROBERT BENCHLEY Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a len...
ROBERT BENCHLEY I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
ROBERT BENCHLEY Tell us your phobias, and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
ROBERT BENCHLEY Go jogging? What, and get hit by a meteor?
ROBERT BENCHLEY The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
ROBERT BENCHLEY The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is...
ROBERT BENCHLEY We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born. We are constantly...
ROBERT BENCHLEY Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fa...
ROBERT BENCHLEY For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, w...
ROBERT BENCHLEY In America there are two classes of travel: first class and with childen.
ROBERT BENCHLEY Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it
ROBERT BENCHLEY Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding ...
ROBERT BENCHLEY Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
ROBERT BENCHLEY Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not pres...
ROBERT BENCHLEY A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three tim...
ROBERT BENCHLEY Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
ROBERT BENCHLEY An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter wha...
ROBERT BENCHLEY In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curio...
ROBERT BENCHLEY In America there are two classes of travel -- first class, and with children.
HORACE BENCHLEY Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse ...
ROBERT BENCHLEY I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing p...
ROBERT BENCHLEY Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
ROBERT BENCHLEY Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment...
ROBERT BENCHLEY The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat...
ROBERT BENCHLEY I can't seem to bring myself to say, "Well, I guess I'll be toddling along." It isn't that I can't t...
ROBERT BENCHLEY The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machiner...
ROBERT BENCHLEY It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up bec...
ROBERT BENCHLEY I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. I...
ROBERT BENCHLEY Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment...
ROBERT BENCHLEY Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compoundi...
ROBERT BENCHLEY The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
ROBERT BENCHLEY Spielberg certainly made the most superb movie; Peter was very pleased. But Peter kept telling peopl...
WENDY BENCHLEY Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a len...
ROBERT BENCHLEY In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
ROBERT BENCHLEY Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
ROBERT BENCHLEY Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people
ROBERT BENCHLEY Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a...
ROBERT BENCHLEY Then it's merrily, merrily, merrily, whoa! To the old gray church they come and go, Some to be marri...
ROBERT BENCHLEY Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present ...
ROBERT BENCHLEY So who's in a hurry?
ROBERT BENCHLEY In America,
ROBERT BENCHLEY STREETS FULL OF WATER. PLEASE ADVISE.
ROBERT BENCHLEY I didn't ought to have went
ROBERT BENCHLEY There are two kinds of people in this world - those who divide everything into two and those who don...
ROBERT BENCHLEY A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still kee...
ROBERT BENCHLEY There is something about saying "Ok" and hanging up the receiver with a bang that kids a man into fe...
ROBERT BENCHLEY It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up bec...
ROBERT BENCHLEY I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.
ROBERT BENCHLEY Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?
ROBERT BENCHLEY A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death...
ROBERT BENCHLEY Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
ROBERT BENCHLEY Death ends a life, not a relationship.
ROBERT BENCHLEY It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation
ROBERT BENCHLEY If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came ...
ROBERT BENCHLEY After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to...
ROBERT BENCHLEY But no one has found one buried on land; this was quite a surprise to everybody.
ELIZABETH BENCHLEY It's possible that it's one of the earliest ships.
ELIZABETH BENCHLEY Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?
ROBERT BENCHLEY Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
ROBERT BENCHLEY One, two, three / Buckle my shoe.
ROBERT BENCHLEY He cared very much about sharks. He spent most of his life trying to explain to people that if you a...
WENDY BENCHLEY Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact...
ROBERT BENCHLEY Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
ROBERT BENCHLEY We don't have plans to excavate the entire ship. It's going to be very expensive because it's so dee...
ELIZABETH BENCHLEY There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.
ROBERT BENCHLEY 'Why don't you step out of those wet clothes and into a dry martini?'
ROBERT CHARLES BENCHLEY Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh.
PETER CAPALDI Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
PETER MARSHALL Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
PETER DRUCKER The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearin...
PETER DAVISON There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a ce...
PETER DINKLAGE The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot o...
PETER BENENSON My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their compa...
PETER ZUMTHOR The celebration... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your...
PETER BONDRA When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I join...
PETER COYOTE To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
IRENE PETER Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.
IRENE PETER Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
IRENE PETER Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
IRENE PETER Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
IRENE PETER Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
IRENE PETER There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The w...
PETER CAPALDI The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
PETER MARSHALL The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to k...
PETER LINDBERGH New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.
PETER JACKSON The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.
PETER SINGER Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming indi...
PETER DRUCKER My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
PETER DRUCKER Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
PETER DRUCKER I spent two years at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and then some New York types saw me there a...
PETER MACNICOL Between November 23, 2002, and January 11, 2003, al-Qahtani was interrogated for 48 days at Guantana...
PETER BERGEN I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's go...
PETER DIAMANDIS Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't...
PETER DRUCKER Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
PETER DRUCKER Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
PETER DRUCKER Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
PETER DRUCKER I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.
PETER TOSH There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.
PETER HOLLINGWORTH Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's t...
PETER SHAFFER A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had n...
PETER ABRAHAMS I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.
PETER STEELE Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.
PETER ORSZAG I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organizati...
PETER SHAFFER Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterho...
PETER DINKLAGE You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks th...
PETER SHUMLIN I love criticism. Equitable Life went down because management wouldn't brook criticism, but if y...
PETER HARGREAVES Even though Mr. Trump is a billionaire, he is still able to relate to average working men and women....
PETER NAVARRO By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except w...
PETER YORK It’s not just tougher out there. It’s become a situation where the contest is how much you can d...
PETER HART Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand forbecause unless we stand...
PETER MARSHALL In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representati...
PETER DEFAZIO My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs...
PETER HIGGS The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eatin...
PETER JACKSON I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts ...
PETER ACKROYD I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danc...
PETER DINKLAGE The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new bu...
PETER CHERNIN Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've b...
PETER HOOK When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newma...
PETER FACINELLI Pirates are the very essence of profit maximising entrepreneurs described in neoclassical economics....
PETER MIDDLEBROOK Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all...
PETER JACKSON When I founded the first Hard Rock, no one was serving American food in London; McDonald's wasn&...
PETER MORTON Let me say right off the bat that I'm not what you would call a 'tree hugger' or a '...
PETER NAVARRO Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of...
PETER DIAMANDIS It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep...
PETER SHAFFER A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I marr...
PETER CAPALDI I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, ...
PETER BEARD We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughin...
PETER MCWILLIAMS Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, fir...
PETER SINGER As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could ...
PETER WRIGHT There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack...
PETER MULLAN Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts....
PETER DINKLAGE It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. Th...
PETER CRISS Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through t...
PETER GUBER A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of...
PETER COOPER Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own ...
PETER ABRAHAMS Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.
PETER JENNINGS The best way to lift people out of poverty and boost wages is to grow our GDP faster. While Trump is...
PETER NAVARRO To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone...
PETER GAY Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other membe...
PETER SINGER Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love.
PETER WASTHOLM Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day...
PETER DIAMANDIS I was seeing a lot of entrepreneurs who were effectively working on the next photo-sharing app. I wa...
PETER DIAMANDIS When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huf...
PETER DIAMANDIS Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a grow...
PETER USTINOV Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
PETER USTINOV A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
PETER USTINOV You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can...
PETER KUMP I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and ...
PETER YORK For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past...
PETER MANDELSON The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical,...
PETER CAPALDI Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has no...
PETER OLIVER About a year after 'Bosom Buddies,' I was suddenly a regular on 'Newhart,' and I was...
PETER SCOLARI