Quotes by Peter Benchley

About Peter Benchley:

Peter Bradford Benchley was an American author, best known for his novel Jaws and its subsequent film adaptation, the latter co-written by Benchley (with Carl Gottlieb) and directed by Steven Spielberg. Several more of his works were also adapted for cinema, including The Deep, The Island, Beast, and White Shark.
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Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.

Peter Benchley

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

Peter Benchley

Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.

Peter Benchley

If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing.

Peter Benchley

I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet.

Peter Benchley

We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us.

Peter Benchley

There was a minor burst of macho nuttiness after 'Jaws' came out, in which people would go off in shark tournaments and come back holding the bloody heads of these animals and say, 'Look what I did.' But they've been doing that for hundreds of thousa...

Peter Benchley

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

Peter Benchley

It's hard to care deeply for something that might turn on you and eat you.

Peter Benchley

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.

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 explosion of elk, and then you have a lack of the food source for the elk, so they strip all the ground bare and that takes away the cover, on and on and on a...

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If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we ...

Peter Benchley

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.

Peter Benchley

A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by shark attack. We do not execute the perpretrators of death by car. We should not butcher an animal for an inadvertent homicide.

Peter Benchley

Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could make you bleed to death. But they don't.

Peter Benchley

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

Peter Benchley

Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about.

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 know any more than if I were to go into the jungle, I would have a fear of tigers, that I would try to lower the odds.

Peter Benchley

We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.

Peter Benchley

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.

Peter Benchley

Author Bio

  • NamePeter Benchley
  • DescriptionAmerican author
  • AliasesPeter Bradford Benchley
  • BornMay 8, 1940
  • DiedFebruary 11, 2006
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Author; Novelist