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Áine.

Here’s the AO3 and the link to Moon Hair e Fire Eyes. I was listening to this while writing.

Chapter 38

In a sea of promises, an ocean of desires.

Leliana,

I am so sorry to inform you that from this day on I will no longer be part of the Inquisition.

I thank you for the opportunity, but I feel that there is nothing else I can do to help.

As far as I know you, I’m sure you are aware of the reasons I have chosen to do so. It is with a heavy heart that I must depart and try to gather the little I have left.

My family – Mother, Finley, Dudu, First and Nevan – will continue working under your orders, despite the discussion we had about my departure.

I hope they can do what I can’t any longer. You have my word and vouch for them. They may be a bit loud and full of opinions, but they are loyal and wish to help.

I don’t know what I am going to do or where I am going, but I will make sure to spread news of the Inquisition’s good work, if I happen to stumble on someone I think is trustworthy and capable, I will direct him/her to Skyhold.

In a more personal tone, I want to thank you for being there for me even from the shadows. I know that you have helped me the way you can.

I am grateful for everything you’ve done in my life; without you I wouldn’t be here. And although I am not at the happiest moment, I had great experiences and could enjoy things I would never be able to if you hadn’t intervened when you did.

Your friend,

Áine.

The day Leliana received the news her heart cried for the friend she was ‘losing’, but she understood her reasons and made no further questions. In her farewell letter, she wished Áine a good departure and the Maker’s blessings.

That was the reason she was reluctant to contact the mage again, but the situation in Emprise du Lion was direr than anticipated.

Scout Lace Harding’s report was worrisome, and Leliana had to, somehow, have someone she fully trusted to keep things under control, and no other than her friend’s name came to her mind.

Áine hadn’t sent any news since her resignation letter eight months before, but she had sent two new agents to Skyhold, and with the information they were able to provide, she was capable of narrowing down her position. After weeks and a lot of trouble, her pursuit had results.

Scouts had been sent to find her, and they brought good news with them. Áine had last been seen in Lothering. An apple never falls far from its tree, and as a Fereldan, Áine wouldn’t be outside her home.

Dear friend,

I hope finding me wasn’t as easy as you made it seem. I would be extremely upset if it were.

Your scouts have contacted me, and I have one request if I may. My return to the Inquisition must remain secret. I don’t want anyone to know I am back, including my family. If my request isn’t considered too much, I will gladly help you in that cold and forsaken place.

I don’t know what you want me to do about the dragons though, that is Bull’s line of expertise, and I’m sure Dorian is not happy about it.

Your friend,

Áine.

P.S.: I missed you greatly.

Leliana laughed with her reply, and within minutes a raven was leaving Skyhold with her answer.

“But do we really need to go… again? Everything is frozen in that place, the trees, the animals, the people!”

“C’mon Dorian, you know that’s not true. The place is under a lot of trouble, the presence of Red Templars and cases of missing people have increased, and we are the Inquisition and cannot let it slide.”

“I know, I just wish it could be a little hotter. Skyhold is not one of the warmest places I’ve been…”

“Look, I promise you I’ll take you somewhere sunny…”

“No way, don’t give me that bullshit, I am not going to the Western Approach with you.”

“Don’t lie to yourself, we all know you are going. Especially because Bull has volunteered.”

“Fasta vass!”

Varric chuckled behind his cards.

“There’s no escape Sparkler, at least I haven’t found one… yet.” – He lowered his cards with a grin. – “I think this round is mine.”

“Kaffas” – He gave Alessa a side glance.

“And here I thought you were friends with Cullen… tsk tsk … I will tell him about it.” – She scratched her head.

“I don’t see why Cullen should be mentioned in this conversation.” – The mage rested his hand on the table and turned to look at her.

“He is coming with us. He wants to see how much Samson has fallen.” – She lowered her eyes to the table.

“Hmm… I see. It will do him good to leave Skyhold for some time.” – Dorian looked at the tavern’s window, lost in thought.

“He has been working a lot in the last months… Is he eating properly?” – Varric asked himself.

Cullen was walking the battlements; he needed some fresh air. Two soldiers talked ahead of him; he could tell they were drunk by the volume of their voices.

“I don’t want to go back… I can barely sleep when I’m there.”

“I know! But you shouldn’t be complaining, you have your wife to warm your nights.”

“The last time we were there, we worked on different shifts, and I rarely spend a night with her.” – He sighed. – “Hey, I saw you talking to the new girl the other day. C’mon, don’t play innocent.”

Cullen was watching the soldiers lightening the braziers on the walls.

“Oh yes, she’s beautiful. She has the most interesting hazel eyes, and I can’t stop staring at her lips.” – He chuckled. – “Her sense of humor is amazing, and I love to hear her laughter.” – He put his hands in his pockets.

Cullen’s mind revisited Áine’s eyes and lips. He heard her laughter in his ears and smiled.

“It’s a shame she is so shy; she never talks about herself.”

“She is a spy; it is understandable. I heard Sister Nightingale chose her herself to be the head of the Keep’s spies.”

“It’s true, but still, I don’t know anything about her.”

“Does it matter? Do you fancy her or not?” – The soldier asked.

“Yes. I don’t care about what they say… she’s special.”

“What do they say about her?” – Cullen saw the man trip on a rock.

“Well, you know she is a mage, right? And people talk about her burned arm...” – Cullen’s interested was piqued. He walked faster to catch up with them.

“Yes, I’ve seen it. But people talk about what they don’t know. She is there for what? A month and a half? Maybe two?”

“I think around two… I’m not certain.” –The soldier adjusted his helmet. – “I don’t really care about that though. When she smiles, it is all that I see. The last time we spoke I told her I was coming to Skyhold and she gave me a quick hug for good luck, the mint smell…”

Cullen stopped.

“Áine…” – Her name reached his lips.

He turned on his heels and headed to his office. He searched every report he had on Emprise du Lion and re-read them, but found no evidence of her presence.

The last he heard of her was that she had left the Inquisition, and he heard it from Sera who had received a farewell letter from her. He was upset because she didn’t send him one, but he knew the reason and couldn’t blame her.

For two months she was stationed at Emprise du Lion, and he didn’t suspect. There were no clues indicating she was back, and Cullen was sure it was a secret between her and Leliana.

Sera would, despite being warned not to, have told him the moment she found out. Their friendship had grown, and he started seeing the troublesome elf as more than a nuisance and colleague, he began to see her as part of the family. How many times had she sent him food or came to have dinner with him in the last months? He had lost count of it. Of course, he still didn’t like her pranks, but he learned that that was her way to say she cared.

He would not let the Spymaster know he was aware of her present whereabouts. If Áine wanted him out of her life, he would respect her wishes, but the possibility of seeing her again, it didn’t matter if it was from afar… He sat in his chair and let his mind wonder.

They arrived in Emprise du Lion, and Cullen understood why everyone complained about the cold. The sight of the frozen river alone froze his bones, he closed his fur coat closely on his body and continued his way to the Keep.

As much as he tried to be discreet he couldn’t; he was caught several times looking around and lost in thought.

The night approached, and he was shown to his quarters and the other facilities in the Keep. He bathed and went down for dinner. His heart beating fast in anticipation of the moment he would see her again.

He was, in the end, disappointed because she was nowhere to be seen, but a piece of information brought hope to his heart.

“Inquisitor, I am Amelia. If you need anything, let me know, and we will provide.” – The woman gave Alessa a deep bow.

“You are the one responsible for keeping this place working?” – Alessa asked touching the spy’s arm, making her blush.

“N-No.” – Alessa chuckled causing the woman to blush more. – “My superior is looking at some leads in the town and left me in charge of the place. But I assure you, she wouldn’t trust me with this if I weren’t capable. She was worried about your arrival, and made sure everything was in place herself before leaving to continue her investigation.”

“I keep hearing about this woman, but I don’t know her name.” – Alessa waited for Amelia’s reply.

Amelia looked around and started rubbing her hands.

“I am sorry Inquisitor. I can’t give you her name because no one knows, we call her Mage.” – The woman was nervous.

“Mage? You call her ‘Mage’? That is very reassuring. I will have to talk to Leliana about it.” – Alessa rested her hands on her hips.

“Leliana sent word she was coming, it had her description, and she also presented us her…” – The woman looked around once more. – “The proof she was one of us.”

“Alessa, if you allow me.” – Cullen turned to them. His heart beating faster because he knew it was Áine they were talking about. – “If Leliana thinks it’s important that this woman’s name is not known, I am sure she has good reasons. Maybe we should wait until we are back in Skyhold unless we want to intrude in their investigations.”

“Well, I am the Inquisitor, and it would be important that I knew…” – Cullen chuckled at her words.

“Has it stopped Leliana before?” – He waited for her answer, and after her ‘no’, he continued. – “Leliana is the Spymaster after all; she has her reasons for doing things the way she does.” – He returned to his meal.

“I guess you’re right.”

Cullen returned to his quarter and got ready to sleep. Thinking she could be walking around the Keep made him restless.

They spent five days in Emprise du Lion, and he wasn’t able to see her once. At every corner, every meal, he knew it would be the time they would meet, but every time his anticipation proved fruitless.

They were leaving the place the next day, and this was his last opportunity to see her one more time. He had lunch and headed to town.

On his way there he kept thinking about the things he would say:

“Hello! How have you been?”; “Hi! You look well”; “It’s nice to see you again.”; “I am glad you are well.”

As much effort as he put on the things he would say to her, it wasn’t enough. He stopped and leaned on the broken wall of a destroyed house; he was at the town’s gate now and could hear people talking.

“I love you. I know I don’t deserve it, but just give me one more chance…please.” – He whispered to the cold wind.

After taking a deep breath, he adjusted his clothes and armor and entered the place. He walked between the houses and among the people, his eyes searching and his ears attentive until he finally heard her laughter.

His muscles tensioned and his breath was cut short. His heart beat in his ears, and there was a funny feeling in his stomach.

He walked toward the sound and heard her laughter again. He was near a window and eavesdropped on their conversation.

“You are trying to tell me, that you single-handed killed a pack of wild wolves, with a simple dagger, during the night?” – She laughed again, and Cullen grinned. – “That is actually impressive soldier, maybe we can head out tonight, and you show me how you did it. I know there’s a pack of wolves near the destroyed bridge…”

“No, ma’am… I mean, I don’t want to make the others uncomfortable…”

“Sure…” – He recognized the tone in her voice.

Cullen stiffed his laughter and turned right on the corner, bumping into a blushing soldier. He could see the door mere steps away when he passed by an open window, his instincts kicked in and he decided to go back and take a look at her.

She was wearing black pants and a blue blouse, with further inspection, he saw that she was barefoot and her blouse had small buttons at the neckline and delicate laces in the sleeves. She turned her back to him and started humming, the familiar melody brought lightness to his heart, and he couldn’t stop smiling. She kept her hair dark and the curls now almost reached her waist.

He imagined himself approaching her and wrapping them around his fingers. He would embrace her and fill his lungs with her scent, then kiss every little part of her face leaving her teasing lips for last. And still lost in his fantasies he saw movement out of the corner of his eyes, a blonde man was approaching her.

Cullen saw the man getting closer and touch her elbow; he watched how she turned to him with a big smile and then the delicate way he touched her face. The man adjusted her hair on her shoulders and said something in her ear, causing her to rest her hands on his chest and nod.

Cullen leaned with his back on the wall and with a blurry vision walked away, back to the keep.

“Just make her happy… she is worth every effort” – He thought, wishing he could advise the man.

The meeting was taking longer than Cullen had wished. The things they had discovered in the Quarry days ago, proved to be more troublesome than they had anticipated.

“I heard Michel de Chevin has already won some of the recruits’ respect. As a renowned Chevalier, I can already see him helping with the troops training. I just hope he understands this isn’t Orlais.”

“Hush Cullen. We all know a Fereldan man commands the troops, and no one is stupid enough to judge his skills and knowledge.” – Leliana looked at him with a malicious smile. – “Even if they try… believe me, they won’t.” – She winked at him.

“I thank you for the vote of confidence Leliana. I know deep down you are a human being with a lot of soft spots.” – He chuckled carefreely, joined by Josephine.

“Commander! I wouldn’t say that aloud; she might have to kill someone to prove you’re wrong.” – Josephine continued writing her report without looking at them and with a smile on her face.

“Hmm… you’re not wrong, Cullen.” – She took a dagger hidden on her clothes and started picking her fingernails. – “But this secret is never leaving this room.”

They laughed and started talking business again.

Cullen looked down at the report on his hand and rubbed the back of his neck. There was a knock on the door, and Michel entered the door.

He lifted his head to look at him, and his jaw tensioned. His shoulders were stiff, and he held the clipboard a little tighter than normal. He had been wondering who was the man with Áine since that day, and the answer was there in front of him.

Michel approached him and extended his hand, Cullen caught it with a steady hand and shook it. For the rest of the meeting, Cullen had to take deep breaths and control himself.

Days passed, and every time he saw Michel walking around, he had to remember that it was all his fault and she had all the right to start over. This time wasn’t different from the rest, he crossed the throne room and nodded at the Chevalier, his heart as small as a copper coin.

“You need to let her go. You had your chance, and you threw it away.” – He kept repeating it in his mind.

There was a snowstorm and Cullen probably was the only one outside. He braved it and reached his office, he opened the door and saw Áine standing by the window, watching the snow falling on the valley below.

He closed the door without taking his eyes off of her, and they were finally alone. The only sounds in his office came from the wind on the partially open windows and the logs crackling in the fireplace.

“I’m leaving for the Emerald Graves tomorrow…” – She hugged herself and kicked an imaginary rock. – “I just wanted to see you one more time… to make sure your withdrawal is not causing too many problems.” – He saw her tucking some hair behind her right ear.

They never discussed it, but she knew, of course, she did. How many times had he awakened in the middle of the night with her cleaning his sweat? Or pouring healing magic on his temples?

He will always remember the first time he woke up with a potion on his nightstand with a note from her.

For the pain.

When she was away, she made sure to leave potions behind in case anything happened. And after he started finding water and fruits on his table every morning after his exercises, he learned that she had agreed with one of the servants to always have fresh water and fruits delivered to him when she wasn’t there.

He didn’t need to tell her; it was one of the many reasons he loved her. She understood him, she knew him. No words were necessary; they didn’t need to say anything for the other to understand.

His fingers brushed against each other, and his lips were trembling. She was there; she was really there.

He steadied his voice and explained it was okay and under control. The headaches were rare now.

“Are you sure it’s under control? Do you have other symptoms?” – He noticed the warmth in her voice. There was true concern in her words.

“You don’t need to worry about it… me…” – He tried to continue his line of thought, but his words vanished in the silence of the room. He wanted to tell her he was fine without her, but he didn’t want to lie.

Cullen’s body started to warm up with the heat from the fireplace, but he could still feel the chilliness of her stance.

“I saw you.” – She leaned on her left side and caressed her burn scar. – “In Emprise du Lion… by the window.” – The silence stretched between them.

Cullen didn’t know what to do; he didn’t know what to say. He was scared she would walk away once again, so he decided to enjoy every second of her presence he could, to commit every detail of her in his mind.

With her back still turned to him, Cullen saw her straighten her body and start to move in the other door’s direction. He couldn’t allow it, no, he wouldn’t allow her to leave before he said everything he wanted to.

He blocked the door with his left hand, and she was trapped between him and it.

She had her hand on the doorknob, and their bodies were so close he could see some of her hair moving with his breathing.

The curls’ mint smell reached his nose, and he took a deep breath, his body tensioned with their proximity. She didn’t move, and he could hear her heavy breathing.

“Michel de Chevin…” – The name tasted sour in his mouth. – “Who is he to you?” – He whispered in her ear.

“Nothing but a friend.” – He heard her wavering voice.

He couldn’t stop it, and his fingertips trailed her right arm up to her shoulder. He could feel the shiver on her skin and heard the gasp that escaped her mouth.

His fingers traveled from her shoulder up to her neck, until he wrapped some of her curls around them. His heart ached, and he pulled them closer to fill his lungs with their smell.

He noticed she didn’t say a word and without a second thought he gently pulled the hair from her left shoulder, and his head slowly went down to have her skin on his lips. He stopped mere centimeters apart, and as she didn’t protest, he narrowed the space until her taste was on his tongue.

He squeezed her shoulder and bit her neck, with the tip of his tongue he tasted her from her shoulder to her ear. When he heard the shy moan escape her mouth, he sucked and licked her earlobe, his hand squeezed her waist and pulled her body near. Her hand traveled back, and he felt her fingers going into his hair, her fingernails scratching his skin.

He pulled her body closer and bit her nape, with his left hand he held her face.

“Áine.”

His voice was firm and full of desire when he whispered her name in her ear, not her nickname, but Áine. And when he heard her moan his name, he knew. He knew that just like he was still hers, she was still his.

His thumb traced her lips before he gently turned her head back in his direction. His right hand trailing down her right arm to reach her hand and finally intertwine their fingers.

When her face was finally in his line of sight he reached her lips with his, but before they touched, his eyes locked in hers and he got lost in a sea of promises.

Only when she whispered his name and her hot breath touched his lips, he finally kissed her, and they got lost in an ocean of desire.

Áine held his hair and pulled his head intensifying the kiss. Her body leaned against him, and he slid his hands under her coat. Her skin was warm, and Cullen caressed it with his fingertips, his left hand going up and his right going down.

He massaged her breast, and she bit his lower lip; he felt her standing on her toes to have her hips against his. His right hand undid the laces in her pants; his fingers were entering it when she stopped his hand, she stopped everything.

“Cullen, I…” – She turned to face him, and Cullen tried hard to steady his breathing. – “If we do this... I don’t want it to stop… I can’t nor want to move on from you…I…”

Cullen smiled and held her face between his hands, kissing her. She took his fur coat off, and it fell silently on the ground. He kept kissing her, and she managed to get rid of his belt, his vest soon was going up his head, and as soon as it was out of the picture, he held her and started kissing her neck.

His hand squeezed her left buttock, and his hand slid inside her pants to feel her skin. He heard her giggle and lifted his head to look at her.

“I need some help here.” – She poked his pauldrons and saw him smile.

“Right… sorry.” – He blushed making her laugh aloud.

She kissed him between smiles and giggles and ran her fingers through his hair. She parted the kiss, and together they took the pauldrons off, and it was tossed behind with a loud crash. Something got broken, and Áine leaned to see, but Cullen held her face and started kissing her again.

Cullen himself took care of the cuirass which he placed on the ground near them, and now free of what was stopping him from feeling her, he gave her a sly smile and caressed her face with his fingertips and palm. She sighed and took a deep breath, her eyes only closed when she leaned on his touch.

She gasped and laughed when he pressed her against the door, his hands grabbed her ass, and he lifted her off the ground. With his hips in between her legs and her arms around his neck, he kissed and bit her lips.

Áine couldn’t believe that after all this time she was here with him, and she wouldn’t allow him to push her away, never again. She drove her fingernails into his skin, and she heard his moan when she pulled him to her. His hips pressing on hers alone were almost making her come.

Cullen placed her on the ground and slowly took her coat off. His fingers brushed against her skin, and he kissed the way up her belly until he had her breast in his mouth. He bit her hard nipple and played with it, she moaned and pressed his head closer, and he made circles around it with his tongue. His other hand kneaded the other one, and she held his head with both hands.

He started his way down and stripped her of her pants; he kissed and squeezed her legs both on the way down and up. Her underwear was white, and he held its sides with both hands, his fingertips slowly took it down, and he made sure to look into her eyes during the process. Her smile was the most beautiful thing he had seen.

He placed her right leg on his shoulder and started sucking her clit. She gasped loudly, and her hand flew to his hair. The view of him down on her, made Áine forget everything. She tried not to moan but failed miserably. She wasn’t in control anymore. She leaned on the door and let him do whatever he wanted with her.

Cullen took her other leg, and now she was sitting on his shoulders, her only support was the door, and she was in the middle of thinking someone could open the door when he sucked her clit, and she jerked her head back, a loud noise escaped her mouth.

He played, licked and sucked her, and as much as she tried, she couldn’t delay her climax. She came in his mouth, and her legs shook on his shoulders. Cullen waited for her to regain some self-control and placed her on the ground again.

He wanted to kiss his way up, but she pulled him and kissed him. He felt her biting his lip and moaned, she kissed his chin and his neck. He noticed what she was about to do and stopped her by pulling her to his lips again.

“No.” – He whispered in her ear. – “Allow me.” – He started playing with her clit again, and her breasts got some of his attention as well.

He licked around her nipples and introduced a finger on her. When she started rolling her hips on his hand, he traced her lips with his thumb, and she placed it in her mouth. He moaned when she sucked it, and she let a giggle escape her mouth, in response, he bit her nipple and introduced another finger on her.

Cullen kissed her, and she held his cock, she started stroking it, and he panted on her mouth. With his moaning in her ear and his thumb playing with her clit she soon had another orgasm.

She laughed, and he kissed her neck. She turned and stood on her toes; her hands planted on the door.

Cullen pushed her hair to her shoulder to have a full view of her back and traced it with his hands. He held her hips and slowly penetrated her.

She was hot and wet, his cock throbbed with pleasure, and he had to take a moment to breathe. He rested his head on her neck and breathed her hair smell in.

He slowly slid his cock out, and he saw she tensioning. The same way he let it out, he slid it in. He held her waist and squeezed it; he took the opportunity to feel her reaction to him.

He started going faster, and he heard her moan, but when she called his name and grabbed his ass, he gave up all his restraints and fucked her.

He was going fast and steady, her walls closed on his cock, and he grabbed her hair pulling her head to him. He kissed her, and she bit his mouth. When her fingers found his hair, his found her clit.

Cullen was almost coming when he felt her body trembling, and she cursed aloud. He smiled satisfied knowing it was because of him.

He took his cock out and turned her to him, he kissed her and held her hand. He adjusted his fur coat on the floor and lay her on it.

He parted her legs and penetrated her. He wanted to look at her when she came one more time.

It didn’t take long for Áine to come again. His kisses and his breathing in her ear were all she needed, but his strong thrusts and the way he squeezed her just made it more powerful. She felt her body melting and couldn’t help but to call his name when she came.

Cullen heard his name on her lips and felt her body shaking under him. She closed her eyes and lifted her chin when she reached her climax, and he smiled at it.

He was near his orgasm too, all it took was her driving her fingernails on his left ass and pulling him in. He felt it coming with a tingling sensation in his body, so he intertwined their fingers and kissed her. He thrust a few more times and came inside her.

She trailed his back up with her fingers and ran her hand through his hair. They looked at each other and smiled. She traced his features and kissed his lips.

“Cullen…”

“I love you, and if you give me one more chance, I will do my best to make you happy.” – The words blurted out of his mouth.

He saw her smile and then laugh, and laugh again. He blushed and waited for her answer.

“No.” – She said at the end.

He frowned and started moving away. She stopped him and forced him to look at her.

“I won’t give you what there isn’t to give. I am yours, Cullen, always have been. I told you once that there is nothing you can do that will stop me from loving you. Ever.” – She smiled at him, and he breathed again. – “I just want to be with you...”

Cullen kissed her, and she felt his tears on her cheeks.

“Good.” – He said while she cleaned his face. – “I won’t let you go anywhere where I can’t see you!”

“I believe there are no more circles.” – He laughed at her words. – “And I thought you weren’t a templar anymore.” – She rolled on top of him and planted kisses all over of his face.

He caressed her cheek with the back of his fingers. – “There’s a lot to say, but right now, I just want to be with you.” – He leaned on his elbows and kissed her.

He stood up and took his t-shirt to clean them.

“Agreed, Ser Templar.” – She rested her head on his chest, and he made circles on her back with his index finger. – “Do you think anyone will come by?”

“I hope not! And if they do, I will send them away.” – He heard her deep breathing; she was almost sleeping. – “I love you, Áine.”

“I love you too, Cullen.”

He watched the fireplace and listened to her breathing. He felt whole again with her sleeping on his chest. He couldn’t stop smiling.

“I won’t let anything come between us again.” – He promised on her hair.

Thank you for the time!

I hope you enjoyed it.

#lemon #áine #aine #cullen rutherford #chapter 38 #in a sea of promises and ocean of desire #writer word search #pomises #ocean #desire

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• A boxer is like a lion, the greatest predator on land, but you throw him in the shark tank and he’s just another meal. Renzo Gracie • A lawyer is basically a mouth, like a shark is a mouth attached to a long gut. The business of lawyers is to talk, to interrupt one another, and to devour each other if possible. – Joyce Carol Oates • After the clinch, it doesn’t matter what happens, one way or another, we’re going to hit the ground, and we’ll be in my world. The ground is my ocean, I’m the shark, and most people don’t even know how to swim. Carlos Machado • All right, you got that out of your system. Can I get back in the boat without you striking me again? Or should I stay out here enjoying the marine life?” “Why don’t you swim around until you find a shark? Then you can discuss how much the two of you have in common – Jeaniene Frost • All sharks were born swimming.” —Rebecca McNutt •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 • And it was there that I saw the most appealing creature in the whole shop. He had a slight chink out of one foot and his ‘topknot’ was missing (a ‘topknot’ is on the top of a dragon’s head and looks a bit like a shark’s fin) but I bought him in an instant. – Chris d’Lacey • Annoyance and pathos warred in my breast, and after a short struggle, annoyance punched pathos in the snout like the voracious shark it was. Kate Elliott • Anyone who thinks cryptozoology is the study of the impossible has never really taken a very good look at the so-called “natural world.” Once you get past the megamouth sharks, naked mole rats, and spotted hyenas, then the basilisks, dragons, and cuckoos just don’t seem that unreasonable. Unpleasant, yes, but unreasonable? Not really.- Mira GrantAs an entrepreneur, you can always find a solution if you try hard enough.- Lori Greiner

• At this point in our global ecological crisis, the survival of humanity will require a fundamental shift in our attitude toward nature: from finding out how we can dominate and manipulate nature to how we can learn from her. In this brilliant and hopeful book, Jay Harman shows us how far the new field of Biomimicry has already progressed toward this goal. The Shark’s Paintbrush makes for fascinating and joyful reading – much needed in these dark times. – Fritjof Capra

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• Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we’re gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die. – Stanley Bing • But as they say about sharks, it’s not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it’s the ones you don’t see. – David Blaine • But it’s also true that my memory is a card shark, reshuffling the deck to hide what I fear to know, unable to keep from fingering the ace at the bottom of the deck even when I’m doing nothing more than playing Fish in the daylight with children. – Lorene Cary • By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You’ve just got to keep moving. You can’t stop. Brad Pitt • By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing. – Sylvia Earle • Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began. – Herman Melville • Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year. Bill Gates • Crikey means gee whiz, wow! Crikey, mate. You’re far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers and all those sharks in the big MGM building. Steve Irwin • Did you know that mako shark fetuses eat each other in the womb?… Its true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that? – Laini Taylor • Does anyone know a word that rhymes with shark? – Mike Birbiglia Dolphins and sharks are natural enemies. Dolphins are like,Quit eating us,” and sharks are like,Stop smiling all the time, you morons.” —Dan Florence • Don’t believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living – they lie. Guy Finley • Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct. Instinct is a lifesaver for sharks and entrepreneurs alike. Most people can recall times they ignored their gut only to regret it later. Learning to actually listen to your instinct is a great form of self-preservation. It’s both incredibly easy and tough at the same time, but worth the effort to master. Barbara Corcoran • EBay may be a shark in the ocean, but I’m a crocodile in the Yangtze River. If we fight in the ocean, we lose, but if we fight in the river, we win. – Jack Ma • Even a mentally challenged shark would figure out that sea turtles did not wear boxer shorts printed in flying piggies, and no sea turtle would be yattering streams of obscenities between chain-smoker gasps of breath. – Christopher Moore • Expand the definition of ‘reading’ to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It’s the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won’t read shark books forever. – Jon Scieszka • Fathers and sons are natural enemies. Look at any species. Shark, sees his father in the water, he’s not thinking, Hey dad, wassup ? He’s thinking, Back off, old man, this surfer carcass is mine. Of course, when his girlfriend swims up and she’s like, Way, you know, there’s enough surfer for everybody. You and your dad need to frenzy together more. Leave you father a thigh. Christopher Titus • For an actor, its great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them. – Michael Douglas • Forgetting isn’t enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound. – Sara Zarr • French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.- Robert Kiyosaki • Gerard’s spirit animal is a gazelle – that’s how he’s always answered – Frankie would definitely be a wolverine, I would be a shark because of my inability to sit still, and Ray? Ray would be… I’m thinking super intelligent, super articulate, I would think owl. Mikey Way • Going from ‘Shark Night’ to ‘Piranha,’ a guy holding a fish on a stick in front of you that they’re going to replace in post-production, it’s a lot different than seeing this animatronic shark that, if you get caught up in the moment, looks, acts and you sometimes think could be real. Chris Zylka • Hand me down the shark repellent Bat-Spray! Adam West Harriet Beecher Stowe • He asks me what happened to my leg. I told him I was shot by a shark. He doesn’t react. Doesn’t seem confused or amused or anything. Like getting shot by a shark is a perfectly natural thing in the aftermath of the arrival. – Rick Yancey • He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you. – Barack Obama • Here is a list of terrible things, The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings The rabid bite of the dogs of war, The voice of one who went before, But most of all the mirror’s gaze, Which counts us out our numbered days. – Clive Barker • Hey Rid?” She stopped and turned to look at him, almost ruefully. Like she couldn’t help what she was any more then a shark could help being a shark, but if she could… “Yeah, Shrinky Dink?” “You’re not all bad.” She looked right at him and almost smiled. “You know what they say. Maybe I’m just drawn that way. – Kami Garcia • Honolulu, it’s got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife’s mother. Ken Dodd • How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark.” “A whale isn’t a fish, Thursday.” “A whale shark is–sort of.” “All right, it’s as fishy as a crayfish.” “A crayfish isn’t a fish.” “A starfish, then.” “Still not a fish.” “This is a very odd conversation, Thursday. – Jasper Fforde • Humanity from the first has had its vultures and sharks, and representatives of the fraternity who prey upon mankind may be expected no less in America than elsewhere. That this virulence breaks out most readily and commonly against colored persons in this country, is due of course to the fact that they are, generally speaking, weak and can be imposed upon with impunity. Bullies are always cowards at heart. Anna Julia Cooper • I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die. – Patrick Rothfuss • I am a shark, Cassie,” he says slowly, drawing the words out, as if he might be speaking to me for the last time. Looking into my eyes with tears in his, as if he’s seeing me for the last time. “A shark who dreamed he was a man. Rick Yancey • I am a shark, the ground is my ocean, and most people can’t even swim. – Rickson Gracie • I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion. – Nicolas Cage • I am passionate about my family, adventure, good wine, nature and the outdoors, sharks, the ocean, and working hard to preserve it all for future generations. Mehgan Heaney-Grier • I am terrified of sharks, so I don’t surf! Janel Parrish • I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs. – Peter Benchley • I did 50 takes on Robert Shaw assembling the Greener Gun on ‘Jaws.’ The shark wasn’t working, so I just kept shooting to make the production report look like we were accomplishing something and to keep cast and crew from going crazy from boredom. It was a strategic indulgence. Steven Spielberg • I didn’t care about the backlash. I think the reason it was so severe was because they didn’t know anything about me in New Zealand. If I had made jokes about a shark attack in the US, no one would have cared. Anthony Jeselnik • I discovered I scream the same way whether I’m about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot. – Axl Rose • I do my very best to avoid shark fin. – Anthony Bourdain • I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle turned up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the reason there are still sharks around is that sharks are better at being sharks than anything else is. Neil Gaiman • I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth. Petrus Borel • I don’t believe there’s anything cosmic or divine or morally superior about whales and dolphins or sharks or trees, but I do think that everything that lives is holy and somehow integrated; and on cloudy days I suspect that these extraordinary phenomena, and the hundreds of tiny, modest versions no one hears about, are an ocean, an earth, a Creator, something shaking us by the collar, demanding our attention, our fear, our vigilance, our respect, our help. – Tim Winton • I don’t enjoy the boo scare when you’re watching a movie and then suddenly there’s a big shark on the screen. The only thing they’re doing is catching you off guard. – Sergio Aragones • I don’t get ‘shark’ – but who cares! Isaac • I don’t like sex … I’m a single working mom with nine cats, a dog-shark, a lizard, and a bunny. I don’t go to bed, I pass out. The idea that I’d get to my bed and there’d be someone in there with whom I was supposed to have an activity is horrifying to me. – Paula Poundstone • I dont like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by Jaws.- David Duchovny • I don’t look back. I’m like a shark – I only look forward. Rita Rudner • I don’t think you can be a diver without a shark on the list. Natalie Dormer • I give [Barack Obama] a 10 [on a scale of 1 to 10] because he’s not God, and he inherited a couple of wars, and a financial mess.I want to see him curse somebody out on TV. You can’t finesse a bull. He’s gotta throw down. He’s in the shark tank. Tracy Morgan • I hate the beach – I’m a mountain guy. I’d much rather face a bear than a shark. Jeff Dunham • I have a hard problem, being some part Native American – being a Christian: do you get burned, do you get cremated, do you get – let the sharks eat you? How do you die? Duane Chapman • I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I’d jump in the water in a second for an amazing role. – Kate Mara • I have a slight fear of sharks for some reason.I have a slight fear of sharks for some reason. – Scott Speedman • I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo. Wyndham Lewis • I have come up with a sure-fire concept for a hit television show, which would be called `A Live Celebrity Gets Eaten by a Shark’. – Dave Barry • I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it’s cool to have strong and powerful pets. – Tracy Morgan • I just believe that sometimes in life you’re like a shark – you have to keep moving through water; otherwise, you’ll die. – Michelle Ryan • I know this is your hand now,’ she tells him. “Roland would have never touched me like that.” Connor smiles, and Risa takes a moment to look down at the shark on his wrist. It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No- the soul of a man. – Neal Shusterman • I love contemporary art, although I wouldn’t want a pickled shark in my house. – Bruno Tonioli • I often prefer the shapes within the raw materials to ‘do their thing’, as this makes it movre interesting for me. Sometimes a piece of hubcap fits in such a way that the shark becomes almost alive in my hands, climbing, twisting or just hanging motionless and predatory, and this gives me a buzz. It makes me feel like a vehicle for the creation process rather than a controller, and not knowing the exact outcome is exciting. Ptolemy • I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark. Samuel Taylor Coleridge • I swear on St. Francis, the patron saint of all animals.” Seeing Poppy’s hesitation, Beatrix added enthusiastically,If a band of pirates kidnapped me and took me to their ship and threatened to make me walk the plank over a shiver of starving sharks unless I told them your secret, I still wouldn’t tell it. If I were tied by a villain and thrown before a herd of stampeding horses all shod in iron, and the only way to keep from being trampled was to tell the villain your secret, I— – Lisa Kleypas • I tell you Dain is a splendid catch. I advise you to set your hooks and reel him in.” Jessica took a long swallow of her cognac.This is not a trout, Genevieve. This is a great, hungry shark.”Then use a harpoon. – Loretta Chase • I think a relationship is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies. – Woody Allen • I think I’m a bit like a kind of shark, that if I stop swimming, I won’t be able to breathe, something like that. Alan Moore • I think I’ve always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was ‘your’ boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get ‘you.’ – Mohsin Hamid I think sharks are beautiful creatures, and I don’t think we should stop going in the ocean because of them. You drive down the road and you get in an accident, but most people end up driving down the road again. Surfing is you’re going into their home and it’s just a natural part of life.’ Bethany Hamilto • I think sharks are beautiful creatures, and I don’t think we should stop going in the ocean because of them. You drive down the road and you get in an accident, but most people end up driving down the road again. Surfing is you’re going into their home and it’s just a natural part of life. Bethany Hamilton • I thought beforehand, if [Marie] Henein is going to be a shark, I’m going to be a jellyfish, because you can’t catch a jellyfish. Not that I didn’t want to be caught, I just wanted to present solid. – Lucy DeCoutere • I try my best to avoid the sharks of life, but I have had my share of experiences with them, and in those cases I just have to handle them accordingly. But I do not swim with sharks … sharks swim with sharks. Rihanna • I want to build a wired ocean that helps us take back the seas from poachers and illegal fishers. To do this, we need the latest technology applied to large pelagic fish and sharks, surveillance technology that helps protect marine protected areas, and tags that help prevent shark finning and illegal fishing. We must use modern sensors to help protect our seas! Barbara Block • I wanted a shark that’s big enough to eat you, and in a large enough amount of liquid so that you could imagine you were in there with it. Damien Hirst • I was once stranded on a broken-down boat in shark-infested waters in the middle of the Indian Ocean for five days before we were rescued while doing a ‘Vogue’ shoot. • I was watching one of those animal shows on the Discovery Channel. There was a guy inventing a shark bite suit. And there’s only one way to test it. All right Jimmy, you got that shark suit on, it looks good… They want you to jump into this pool of sharks, and you tell us if it hurts when they bite you. Well, all right, but hold my sign. I don’t wanna lose it. Bill Engvall • I wasn’t surprised at all. In fact, I thought, why stop there? Why not add the Big Show, or Chris Jericho, or the whole state of Nebraska for that matter? And don’t you think a wrestling ring is a little old school, Lilian? Why not put the match in a shark tank, with real live sharks? Hungry sharks! And the only way to beat your opponent is to stuff him down a shark’s throat, and pin the shark. Wouldn’t that be a hoot?- Kurt Angle • I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you’ve already done the good writing, you’ll still need the good luck. It’s a shark-filled lagoon out there. Cross your fingers and watch your back. – Margaret Atwood • I won’t swim in a pool by myself, because I think that somehow a little magic door is going to open up and let a shark out. Christina Ricci • I would stay at my grandma’s house on my birthday every year and I remember she had a bookshelf of murder mystery books along with really frightening books, like one on Jack the Ripper. She also had a poster of a shark in the closet which also terrified me at the time. Christopher Bollen • If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one. – Tea Leoni • If incredible creatures like sharks can exist, why not Bigfoot? When I look at sharks, they’re the most terrifying, monstrous, dinosaur-like things. To this day, I’m so fascinated by them and can’t get my head around how they are on Planet Earth at all. Rachael Taylor • If men are obsolete, then women will soon be extinct — unless we rush down that ominous Brave New World path where women clone themselves by parthenogenesis, as famously do Komodo dragons, hammerhead sharks, and pit vipers. Camille Paglia If size really mattered, the whale, not the shark, would rule the waters.” —Matshona Dhliwayo • If you are in the job for glamour, you’re in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool. – Trisha Goddard • I’m 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks… stuff that’s in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel. – John Lydon • I’m a blowfish. I’m not a shark, I’m a blowfish. – Kanye West • I’m a blowfish. I’m not a shark, I’m a blowfish. So that perfect example about me hitting my head, it’s like a blowfish. I wasn’t coming out of my house going to a paparazzi’s house to attack them. I’m defending my family in front of my own house. I’m defending my name as someone’s screaming something negative at me. That’s a blowfish. People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people. – Kanye West • I’m actually very scared of sharks. I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was young, which may not have been compatible with that fear. – Gillian Anderson • I’m afraid of sharks – but only in a water situation. – Demetri Martin • I’m an old school guy and love the guys in the monster suits and JAWS; even though everyone makes fun of the shark I think it’s awesome. You know it’s fake, but with my generation that was part of the charm. – Larry Fessenden • I’m haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls ‘tomorrow’s child,’ asking why we didn’t do something on our watch to save sharks and bluefin tuna and squids and coral reefs and the living ocean while there still was time. Well, now is that time. – Sylvia Earle • I’m just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks. – Don Johnson • I’m like a shark, right at the top of the food chain. I take what I want, when I want. I truly am the reflection of perfection. Ricky Martin • I’m like a shark. I’ve got to be constantly moving. Kenny Chesney • I’m not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears. – Heidi Klum • I’m obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone’s been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get all gooey. I start salivating. Tori Amos Impact, Years, People In a world full of fish be a shark.” —Unknown • In life, (the fashion world) is full of sharks. In this world the young girls lose themselves; become the property of others, live but for the job and their craziness…they don’t know anymore where their home is. Many take drugs. It’s strange. Perhaps the girls understand that this does not work for me. I don’t have many friendships with other models. I respect them and enjoy working with them, but I probably would not invite them into my home. My house is like my heart, and I open it only to those with whom I have a close relationship. Laetitia Casta • In the end, my love for surfing helped me overcome my fear of sharks. Bethany Hamilton • In the Mediterranean of my childhood, there were no large groupers, sharks, or whales. All I saw was seaweed and a few fish, smaller than my little diving mask. All the large animals were gone, simply because we had eaten them. Enric Sala • In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe as we move through a mildly good cocktail party, picking up the good bits of food or conversation, bearing with the rest, going home when it comes to seem the reasonable thing to do. Art, at those moments when it feels most like art — when we feel most alive, most alert, most triumphant — is less like a cocktail party than a tank full of sharks. – John Gardner • Instead of squirreling away your earnings early in your career, spend on experiences that will enrich your life – like diving with great white sharks. It can expose you to influential people who could open doors for you. – Blake Mycoskie • Interceded? You threw me to the sharks! Stephenie Meyer • Interesting fact: a shark will only attack you if you’re wet. – Sean Lock • Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus’d Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish? – Erica Jong • It comes down to finding something you love to do and then just trying to be great at it – Mark Cuban • It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No–the soul of a man. – Neal Shusterman • It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at the very heart of the moving world: they are glued together, limb by limb, like the condemned man and the corpse in certain tortures; or even like those pairs of fish (sharks, I think, according to Michelet) which navigate in convoy, as though united by an eternal coitus. – Roland Barthes • It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of all mammals, a fifth of all reptiles, and a sixth of all birds are headed toward oblivion. The losses are occurring all over: in the South Pacific and in the North Atlantic, in the Arctic and the Sahel, in lakes and on islands, on mountaintops and in valleys. – Elizabeth Kolbert • It looks like I’m this huge shark going in for the kill… I don’t know what I was thinking. David Gest • It was such a dramatic escalator that I was on. It was at 90 degrees. I was going straight up like a rocket ship into space. And I was thrown in with the sharks. They said sink or swim in this Cup deal. Kurt Busch Italian, Blood, Bread • It’s a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak. That instant that you know from now on…it’s all downhill. Some call it the climax. We call it ‘Jumping the Shark.’ From that moment on, the program will simply never be the same. – Jon Hein • It’s kind of ridiculous that I find inspiration in just getting away from everything. But when you’ve gone through it, you realize that it’s the enemy. It’s a distraction from what you’re really doing. You’ve got to keep moving. Like a shark. – Jack White • It’s really not as bad as it sounds. I was attacked by a shark once, back when I was alive. Well, not so much a shark as a rather large fish. And not so much attacked as looked at menacingly. But it had murder in its eyes, that fish. I knew, in that instant, if our roles had been reversed and the fish had been holding the fishing pole and I had been the one to be caught, it wouldn’t hesitate a moment before eating me. So I cooked it and ate before it had a chance to turn the tables. – Derek Landy • I’ve always been freaked out in deep open water if there’s a potential of sharks around. Theo James • I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup. – Alan Alda • I’ve seen young men in college going into the NFL and then bite the cheese that’s in the trap. They’ll throw you a pair of Jordans or a moneybag for their services. It’s in that moment where most compromise. This business is unforgivable, and you got a bunch of sharks out there. It’s mind boggling that universities don’t prepare athletes for what they’re going to experience. Eddie George • Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest. – Barbara Ehrenreich • Let’s be perfectly clear, shall we. The fox is not a little orange puppy dog with doe eyes and a waggly tail. It’s a disease-ridden wolf with the morals of a psychopath and the teeth of a great white shark. Jeremy Clarkson • Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes – Luigi Pirandello

• Live every week like it’s shark week. – Tracy Morgan • Look, Chief, you can’t go off half-cocked looking for vengeance against a fish. That shark isn’t evil. It’s not a murderer. It’s just obeying its own instincts. Trying to get retribution against a fish is crazy. – Peter Benchley • Losing is like smoking. It’s habit forming”;Fear is the basis of all mankind. In cards, you psyche ’em out, you shark ’em, you put the fear of God in ’em Puggy Pearson • Love’s pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices. – David Mitchell • Make no mistake, your relationships are the heaviest components in your life. All those negotiations and arguments and secrets, the compromises. The slower we move the faster we die. Make no mistake, moving is living. Some animals were meant to carry each other. To live symbiotically over a lifetime. Star crossed lovers, monogamous swans. We are not swans. We are sharks. – Ryan Bingham • Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion. Lord Byron • Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He’s Shark Food. – Gary Larson • Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but youre more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark! – Ted Danson • Maybe we’ll live to see sharks recover. Right now, that seems as improbable as seeing all these falcons. Hope is the ability to see how things could be better. The world of human affairs has long been a shadowy place, but always backlit by the light of hope. Each person can add hope to the world. A resigned person subtracts hope. The more people strive, the more change becomes likely. – Carl Safina • Men, specifically in the West, have no rights of passage, no way to know when they become a man. Everywhere else in the world you gotta kill a lion or stab a shark, or go on some journey, and you come back and you’re a man. But here in the West, we’re really kind of clueless as to what makes us a man. – LeCrae • Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine. Cher • More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk. Bruce Schneier • Mr.Blank’s reputation as a card shark had preceded him. No one accused him of being dishonest, but on the other hand no one accused him of being honest. Groucho Marx • My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I’ve always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority. – Dylan McDermott • My phobias worsen as I get older. I’m scared of flying, driving. I’m terrified of sharks. I’m a germaphobe. But I try to face my fears; I do. Well, most of them. – Eli Roth • My position is this. If we can’t protect sanctuaries, if we can’t save the whales, the sharks, the fish, our oceans will die. Paul Watson • My tattoo is a cross, a rose and a shark. A cross is a cross, a rose like love and a shark is a pretty tough animal. Goran Ivanisevic • National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, ‘Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!’ Bjork • Never underestimate a woman who loves sharks.” —Unknown

• No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. … I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things – Ernest Hemingway • No rescue boat can save the touches I left bobbing in the wild ocean of your flesh, but if they cut open your heart, like the belly of a shark, dumped its contents on a table—would there be any trace of me? – Jeffrey McDaniel • No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors. -Peter Benchley • Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel. • Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species. Sylvia Earle • Nothing is more important than saving … the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans. – James Lee • Of all the creatures in the world that really frighten me – the hyena in Africa, the great white shark – leopard seals are near the top of the list. They’re killers. If my team spots one, they’ll pull me out of the water. – Lewis Gordon • Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear, And he shows them pearly white. Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear, And he keeps them out of sight. – Kurt Weill • Once Henry had heard a crying noise at sea, and had seen a mermaid floating on the ocean’s surface. The mermaid had been injured by a shark. Henry had pulled the mermaid out of the water with a rope, and she had died in his arms…”what language did the mermaid speak?” Alma wanted to know, imagining that it like almost have to be Greek. “English!” Henry said. “By God, plum, why would I rescue a deuced foreign mermaid? – Elizabeth Gilbert • One of them hissed-not the hiss of a cat, a long, steady tone-more like the hiss of air escaping the rubber raft that is all that lies between you and a dark sea full of sharks, the hiss of your life leaking out at the seams. – Christopher Moore • One shark turned to the other to say he was fed up chasing tuna and the other said, ‘Why don’t we go to Morecambe Bay and get some Chinese?’ – Ann Winterton • Only the strongest players can swim in the shark-infested waters of the Masters’ Seas. – Victor Niederhoffer • Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish. Bill Bailey • Passion, for me, is like a shark – it never stops moving. – Jack White • Personally, I say, “Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them.” However, that one’s having a rough time catching on. – Brandon Sanderson • Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet’s sharks combined. – Paul Watson Pigs, Years, People • Piscary killed people, but he didn’t have the concept of pity or remorse. It would be like telling a shark he was a bad fish and to stop eating people. But Trent? He knew he was doing wrong, and he did it anyway. Kim Harrison Player, Sea, Water • pools of blood are not recreational even lifeguards drown when the undertow breaks bread with the underbelly demons disguised as sharks have not put enough thought into their costumes a wiseman stays ashore when pointed fins read like italian subtitles the end is near (…) the beginning – Saul Williams Powerful, Men, Thinking • Raphael painted, Luther preached, Corneille wrote, and Milton sang; and through it all, for four hundred years, the dark captives wound to the sea amid the bleaching bones of the dead: for four hundred years the sharks followed the scurrying ships; for four hundred years America was strewn with the living and dying millions of a transplanted race; for four hundred years Ethiopia stretched forth her hands unto God. W. E. B. Du Bois • Relationships are like sharks. They’ve got to keep going into deeper, colder water, sometimes scarier, darker territories … to stay alive. Richard Gere Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator prey balance dramatically shifts, and the health of our oceans declines.” Brian Skerry • Roy Keane’s like a shark. He has those eyes. You don’t know if he is going to buy you a drink or eat you. Ian Holloway • Royal Young has accomplished a rare feat in his fresh and riveting debut: he manages to recount his fascinating youth and unconventional family with a mixture of humor, scathing honesty and tenderness. Much more than simply a book about a kid who dreams of stardom, Fame Shark is a thoughtful, hilarious and moving love letter to his family and the Lower East Side of New York City. – Kristen Johnston • Rule number four for me as a writer? Plotlines are like sharks: They either keep moving or they die. ~J.R. Ward – J.R. Ward • Seafood is simply a socially acceptable form of bush meat. We condemn Africans for hunting monkeys and mammalian and bird species from the jungle yet the developed world thinks nothing of hauling in magnificent wild creatures like swordfish, tuna, halibut, shark, and salmon for our meals. The fact is that the global slaughter of marine wildlife is simply the largest massacre of wildlife on the planet. – Paul Watson • Setting off unknown to face the unknown, against parental opposition, with no money, friends, or influence, ran it a close second. Clichés like “blazing trails,” flying over “shark-infected seas,” “battling with monsoons,” and “forced landings amongst savage tribes” became familiar diet for breakfast. Unknown names became household words, whilst others, those of the failures, were forgotten utterly except by kith and kin. Amy Johnson • Shark Tale feels borrowed, sampled and dittoed from the collective funniness of the past 10 years in studio-made animation. – Desson Thomson • Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business. – Barbara Corcoran Sharks are among the most perfectly constructed creatures in nature. Some forms have survived for two hundred million years.” Eugenie Clark • Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent. Dave Barry • Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you’re lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you’re in a healthy ocean. You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks. – Sylvia Earle Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.” —Barbara Block • Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh. Barbara Block • Sharks are just evil bastards. I’m quite happy if all the sharks just went, because they eat fish and us. And we need the fish. – Eddie Izzard • Sharks are like dogs. They only bite when you touch their private parts.” —Rob Schneider • Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.Tom Robbins Sharks are the lions of the sea.They glamorize the oceanic glory.” —Munia Khan Sharks aren’t the monsters we make them out to be.” —Yasmine Hamdi • Sharks attack surfers because they look like a seal. Apparently, when you’re layng on your board and you have your arms and legs hanging off, from underneath you look like a seal. So I just got a picture of a seal and put a red line through it and put it underneath my board. Henry Cho • Sharks don’t target human beings, and they certainly don’t hold grudges. – Peter Benchley • Sharks have a deadly form of claustrophobia. It’s not so much fear of enclosed spaces as it is inability to exist in them. No one knows why. Some say it’s the metal in aquariums that throws their equilibrium off. But whatever it is, big sharks don’t last long in captivity – Neal Shusterman Sharks have been swimming the oceans unchallenged for thousands of years; chances are, the species that roams corporate waters will prove just as hardy.”Eric Gelman • Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They’re beautiful―God, how beautiful they are! They’re like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They’re as graceful as any bird. They’re as mysterious as any animal on earth. No one knows for sure how long they live or what impulses―except for hunger―they respond to. There are more than two hundred and fifty species of shark, and everyone is different from every other one. – Peter Benchley • Sharks have swum the oceans for over 400 million years, but we’re threatening this critically important species for the purpose of making soup – it’s sad and wasteful. – Ted Danson Sharks hug with their mouths.” —Unknown • Sharks will scare me. I went out to Malibu a couple of weeks ago. Beautiful, clear day, out in five feet of water, going to surf, and there was this big ol’ freakin’ leopard shark… I’m looking at him and I’m thinking, ‘OK, he won’t hurt me. Timothy Olyphant Sharks” They’re not so bad. If a stranger entered my house wearing only a speedo, l’d probably attack him too.” —Unknown • Since I began exploring the ocean in the 1950s, 90 percent of the big fish have been stripped away. Tuna, sharks, swordfish, cod, halibut, you name it, the numbers have just collapsed. Also, about half of the coral reefs are gone, globally, from where they were just a few decades ago. Sylvia Earle • So the hotel tells us that it is not safe to go in the water because its shark mating time. I know how I’d feel if someone interrupted me. Bill Engvall • Some people like being a big fish in a small pond, others a ferocious shark in the ocean, I rather be the ocean. In the end, fish die. Behdad Sami • Sometimes making a story is as easy as putting two characters in a room and seeing what happens. So, imagine a great white shark and a giant squid in the same bathroom. Jim Toomey • Somewhere in the ocean, a shark was missing its cold eyes because this man had them. – Steve Hamilton • Stop saying athletes do it for the love of the game. They do it for the love of their 32-room mansion with the live shark tank in the living room. If pro sports paid minimum wage, Shaquille O’Neal would be a bouncer at Scores, and Anna Kournikova would be a mail-order bride from Minsk. – Bill Maher • Testing her sexuality, she thinks she’s caught a beautiful fish, when in reality, she’s netted a shark. – Tammara Webber • That’s not news! When a shark comes out of the water, walks into a 7-11, and bites you in the ass, then it’s news! Carlos Mencia • The audience should go out and see Shark Night 3D because you can bring your whole family. – Sinqua Walls • The computer revolution has allowed white-collar criminals to do what the Mob would have loved to do – put a pawnshop and a loan shark in every home! – Kurt Vonnegut • The country’s newest aquarium, opened in November, bills itself as the largest in the world, holding more than 100,000 animals representing 500 species. It is the first in the USA to display whale sharks, the largest fish in the world. – John Grant • The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business. – Elizabeth Warren • The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes. – Ursula K. Le Guin • The Giant Ocean Tank, with its 52 large viewing windows, is the main attraction here. Myrtle, a giant green sea turtle, is one of the tank’s most popular animals, along with sharks, rays and more than 100 other species. The Aquarium Medical Center is a working animal hospital exhibit that allows visitors to observe veterinarians examining and treating sea creatures. – John Grant • The goblins want girls who dream so hard about being pretty their yearning leaves a palpable trail, a scent goblins can follow like sharks on a soft bloom of blood. The girls with hungry eyes who pray each night to wake up as someone else. Urgent, unkissed, wishful girls. Like Kizzy. – Laini Taylor • The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master. . . . The politicians said we suffered from overproduction. Overproduction, when 10,000 little children, so statistics tell us, starve to death every year in the United States. . . . We will stand by our homes and stay by our fireside by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government pays its debts to us. Mary Elizabeth Lease • The ground is my ocean, I’m the shark, and most people don’t even know how to swim. Carlos Machado • The main courtyard was filled with warriors – mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I’d never known before.Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don’t show you stuff like that in “The Little Mermaid. – Rick Riordan • The moon had risen behind him, the color of a shark’s underbelly. It lit the ruined walls, and the skin of his arms and hands, with its sickly light, making him long for a mirror in which to study his face. Surely he’d be able to see the bones beneath the meat; the skull gleaming the way his teeth gleamed when he smiled. After all, wasn’t that what a smile said? Hello, world, this is the way I’ll look when the wet parts are rotted. – Clive Barker • The number-one show in America on Sundays will be Celebrity Apprentice. Monday nights, The Voice will be number one. Wednesday nights, Survivor will be number one. And Friday nights, Shark Tank will be number one. It just takes some time management for me to focus. Scott Raab • The ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is the home of the great white shark, two-thousand-pound killer of the seas, and of the hundred-foot blue whale, the largest animal that ever lived. It is also the home of living things so small that your two hands might scoop up as many of them as there are stars in the Milky Way. Rachel Carson • The only thing on the mind of a shark is to eat. Lil Wayne • The only use for a knife during a shark attack is pure treachery: Stab your buddy, swim like hell, and hope the munchies take him. Tim Cahill • The pointless snide remarks of hammerheaded sharks – Thom Yorke • The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading. Raymond Chandler • The reason I do Shark Tank isn’t to try take make more money of the deals, even though every deal I want to make money off of and even more so I want the entrepreneurs to be very successful and make money, but Shark Tank sends a message to everybody that the American Dream is alive and well. Mark Cuban • The shark has its head to the west and tail to the east, very much the way the Indians would put a human in the ground.” Bob Carr • The shark heart slows down in the cold, just as our own heart would. But what sets it apart is where our heart would simply stop, the salmon shark keeps on ticking.” Barbara Block • The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark. – Paul Watson • The studios will go wherever they smell money. It’s like sharks to the blood. – Don Bluth • The word relationship best refers to the connection between parasite and host, or shark and remora. It’s a biological term. I’d rather be a jerk than a scientist when it comes to love. – Ian Shoales • There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool. L. M. Boyd • There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist’s dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good. – Charles Saatchi • There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water. – Alan Clark There are plenty of fish in the sea, so don’t settle for a shark.” —Unknown • There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second is the immortality of the human soul; and the third is a future state of rewards and punishments. Suppose it possible for a man to disbelieve either of these three articles of faith and that man will have no conscience, he will have no other law than that of the tiger or the shark. The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy. – John Quincy Adams • There is a big difference between a disappointing friend and a deadly enemy. Of course the Democrats are disappointing. That’s what makes them Democrats. If they were any more frustrating they’d be your relatives. But in this country they are all that stands between you and darkest night. You know why their symbol is the letter ‘D’? Because it’s a grade that means good enough, but just barely. You know why the Republican symbol is ‘R’? Because it’s the noise a pirate makes when he robs you and feeds you to a shark. – Bill Maher • There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else’s language.Steve Lacy There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.” —Siddharta Gautama • There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed. – Gautama Buddha • There is this sweet spot in time when we have an opportunity to stop killing sharks and tunas and swordfish and other wildlife in the sea before it’s too late. Sylvia Earle • There’s still a lot of people out there who think the only good shark is a dead shark.” —Brain Skerry • There’s a cardinal rule that you don’t talk about sharks. If you don’t see it, it’s not there. – Mark Warkentin • There’s a good case to be made that having fun is a key evolutionary advantage right next to opposable thumbs in terms of importance. Without that little chemical twist in our brains that makes us enjoy learning new things, we might be more like the sharks and ants of the world.- Raph Koster There’s nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That’s their instinct. But this fish doesn’t run from anything. He doesn’t fear.” Peter Benchley • There’s still a lot of people out there who think the only good shark is a dead shark. – Brian Skerry • They will tell you tough stories of sharks all over the Cape, which I do not presume to doubt utterly,–how they will sometimes upset a boat, or tear it in pieces, to get at the man in it. I can easily believe in the undertow, but I have no doubt that one shark in a dozen years is enough to keep up the reputation of a beach a hundred miles long. – Henry David Thoreau • They’re like sharks. Circling. Cute, single guy, good job, nice car. It’s all they know about me.” His tone was light but his expression serious. Maybe that’s because it’s all you show them.” Maybe it’s all they want to see. – Megan Hart • This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten. – Barbara Kingsolver • Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship’s decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them.- Herman Melville • Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks. – Scott Lynch • Tobias asked. “Weird? Weird?” Marco crowed. “The talking bird wants to know if getting information on the location of an alien from a whale, that you’ve just saved from sharks, by turning into dolphins . . . You’re suggesting that’s weird? – Katherine Applegate • Today I saw cancer, cigarettes, and shortness of breath. This is why I walk to the ocean. Swim with sharks and jellyfish. I may never get this chance again. This is why if you want to kiss, you should kiss. If you want to cry, you should cry. And if you want to live, you should live. You don’t have to love me. You already did. – Ryan Ross • Turns out, I couldn’t catch them – or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out. – Malin Akerman • Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks. – Peter Benchley • Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film. – Ashley Scott • We developed microfinance to fight loan sharks – I was telling people don’t go to loan sharks – not trying to take advantage and make money for myself. I would be a junior loan shark if I did … It is not a panacea. Muhammad Yunus • We don’t like to think of ourselves as prey—it is a lessening thought—but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget that we are not unique. We are part of nature as much as other animals, and some animals—sharks, fever-bearing mosquitoes, wolves and bear, to name but a few—perceive us as a food source, a meat supply, and simply did not get the memo about how humans are superior. It can be shocking, humbling, painful, very edifying and sometimes downright fatal to run into such an animal. – Gary Paulsen • We don’t have any changes in the movie [Pineapple Express] and so picking the right outfit was fairly important. So I wasn’t a fan of the Guatemalan pants, but I was convinced that I should wear that. Then the T-shirt is a special creation by David Gordon Green. It’s a kitten sitting in a shark’s mouth, but he’s happy about it. – Seth Rogen • We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. Margaret Atwood We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat.” —Unknown • We keep the negative stuff because it’s the negative stuff that’s going to, you know, potentially kill us. That fin in the water – maybe it is a shark. That yellow thing behind the tree – maybe it is a lion. You need to be scared. – Mohsin Hamid We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory – it’s theirs.” —Peter Benchely • We still have 10 percent of the sharks. We still have half of the coral reefs. However, if we wait another 50 years, opportunities might well be gone. – Sylvia Earle • We still have the illusion that the ocean will recover. That even if we do have to lose sharks, people don’t understand why this matters. The evidence is in front of us, and we fail to take it in and say, “Now I get it. Now I understand.” Sylvia Earle • We want the accursed foreclosure system wiped out…. We will stand by our homes and stay by our firesides by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government pays its debts to us. Mary Elizabeth Lease • Well, everyone, welcome to Shark Week. Oh that’s on CBS and there’s been a lot of cutbacks, so it’s just Friday night for a couple of minutes. And we don’t have any sharks, just an immigrant with a puppet. Hey, but it’s a start! – Craig Ferguson • Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl. – Saadi • What I compare bike lanes to is swimming with the sharks. Sooner or later you’re going to get bitten… Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks, not for people on bikes. My heart bleeds for them when I hear someone gets killed, but it’s their own fault at the end of the day. – Rob Ford • What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don’t break the knee caps of those who can’t pay back, they still are destroying people’s lives. – Bernie Sanders • What we share may be a lot like a traffic accident but we get one another. We are survivors of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something. Margaret Atwood • What’s the inside of a shark smell like? I always thought it would smell like chicken. – Judd Hirsch • When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I’m just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I’ll die. Adam Shankman • When I was a kid I would write songs, little plays, and poetry in school. If you’re an adult and you’re a poet, it’s all about love and pain, but if you’re a kid it’s, “Does anyone know a word that rhymes with shark?” Mike Birbiglia • When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it’s just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen. – Bethany Hamilton • When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer. – Francesca Annis • When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called ‘extreme’ shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I’m terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice. – Taylor Lautner • When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound. – Lewis Carroll • When you come to ‘Shark Tank,’ the only person you should listen to is me, because you know you’re getting the truth. I’ll decide if it’s worth it, and after I’m finished, the rest of the people can look into it. – Kevin O’Leary When you enter the ocean you enter the food chain, and not always at the top.” —Unknown • Winter near the shore is cold. The wind kicks up a salty mist and elephant seals come to shore to trumpet and rut and birth their pups. Retired people put sweaters on their lap dogs and drag them down the street on retractable leashes in a nightly parade of doggy humiliation. Surfers don their wetsuits against the chill of storm waves and white sharks adjust their diets to include shrink-wrapped dude-snacks on fiberglass crackers. Christopher Moore Wise, Men, Law • With acting, there are a lot of subtleties and non-verbals involved. If someone is over there, getting eaten by a shark, there’s a non-verbal way of how to act that. There’s a certain nuance to acting that does not come intuitively to me. It’s something I still have to learn. Mark McGrath Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.” Peter Benchley • Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain Peter Benchley • Writing and performing are to me what water and movement are to sharks. Rachael Yamagata • Yet the reality is that I’m a stage actor from the Midwest – probably the opposite of a shark agent. – Jeremy Piven • You always hear a headline like this, ‘Man Killed By Shark’, you never hear it from the other perspective, ‘Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He’s Shark Food’. – Gary Larson • You can’t afford to make the shark look good so you do most of it with ominous music and a fin. Jim Howick • You don’t have to swim faster than the shark, just faster than the person you’re with. – Kevin Nealon • You Know the Most Dangerous Thing In the Water? A Shark Fart. – Gary Busey • You know, it actually can happen. I mean, the chances of it happening are very rare, but it can happen actually. Which is crazy. Not that it—the chances of it are, like, you know, it’s like probably ‘pigs could fly.’ Like, I don’t think pigs could fly, but actually sharks could be stuck in tornados. There could be a sharknado. Tara Reid • You might not think a hippo could inspire terror. ScreamingHippo!” doesn’t have the same impact as screamingShark!” But I’m telling you—as the Egyptian Queen careened to one side, its paddle wheel lifting completely out of the water, and I saw that monster emerge from the deep, I nearly discovered the hieroglyphs for accident in my pants. – Rick Riordan • Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks” “Yes, sir, of sharks and men. Jules Verne • You’re more likely to drown in the sea of sameness than get eaten by a shark while navigating new waters. Amy Jo Martin

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