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

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

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

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.

Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.

I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.

I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

I dive as much as I can.

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

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.

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.

Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.

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.

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

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.

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 are taking a chance.

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 and on. The whole food chain is disrupted.

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

In a deeply tribal sense, we love our monsters, and I think that is the key to it right there. It is monsters; it is learning about them: it is both thrill and safety. You can think of them without being desperately afraid because they are not going to come into your living room and eat you. That is 'Jaws.'

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.

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.

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.

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

Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.

Fascinations breeds preparedness and preparedness survival.

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.

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.

I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.

When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as if I were some sort of wispy ghost, barely existing.

I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful.

I would never do anything to hurt anybody, especially if they're helping me. I'm not that kind of person.

I mean, I would never want to do anything to hurt my family, but then again I would never want to do anything to hurt myself. And I think they go hand in hand.

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both.

You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.

This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.

I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that's about it. I was shooting in New York and somebody said Glenn Close came by the set.

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.