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If we tag a shark out here and it shows up in the Florida Straits, that's pretty cool.

Jack Morris

In his prime he was a very imposing figure with a very large tattoo of a shark on his forearm that he called Jaws.

Peter Carlisle

We are active in water sports and while the shark remains in the water there is the prospect that danger still exists. Our public would feel a lot safer if that shark was removed from the water.

David Oliver

We tell people all the time they're in much greater danger driving to the beach than they are once they get to the beach, jumping in the water, being attacked by a shark.

John Naughton

The threads that connect us to other living things. Newspapers will run a headline: 'Shark kills human.' You never see a headline from the other perspective: 'Man swims in shark-infested water, forgets he's shark food.' .

Gary Larson

The Adventures of Shark Boy & Lava Girl in 3-D.

Robert Rodriguez

We had flown Shark 21 mostly up to that point so both the aircraft would be available for the Prime Minister's flight [on February 2], ... It was fairly significant with the Prime Minister coming to visit.

George Mcguire

Shark, cheeseburger and crab hats are easy to find and fit the bill. But you can also make your own.

Steve Hoffman

Then I felt something and (I) looked down and this shark brushed my kayak.

Dan Lankheit

We we charging in ... slapping the water and screaming at the shark: 'Hey, no, no, no.

David Bryant

He's pretty big. It must be a big shark.

Jessy Larson

After the attack, the shark kept circling the area. Even though we thought that it was going to strike again, we did not pay much attention because we were rushing to get Paul onto the beach.

Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu

It is legalized loan sharking at its worst.

Linda Hilton

I want to make sure it is out of there for good. Whatever it is, there is a shark floating in there and we got to get it out.

But Burnett

We thought it was a shark, but didn't know for sure because it was dark..

Grant Dalton

We are using our seven gill shark as a surrogate species because they are more common and easier to work with than risking the gray nurse shark.

Nick Kirby

... knowing that Cathy was not going to leave Bevin for the sake of the children, he decided to kill him at the shark net.

Peter Smid

You're much more likely to be attacked by lightning or by your own toilet than you are by a shark.

Peter Benchley

It could have the unintended consequence of making it harder to actually catch those who commit sexual offenses because they won't have ties to the community. They'll be like a shark biting someone close to the beach and disappearing into the ocean.

Charles Rose

It was clear early on that these individuals were involved in a large operation involving gambling, loan-sharking, extortion and drug trafficking.

Captain David Vice

Dana may have a friendly and bubbly personality, but when she steps on the track, she's a shark. She's a great competitor and a hard worker. She earns everything she gets.

Dave Mills

He was really aggressive, ... I've been here a long time and I've never seen a shark get that aggressive.

Tim Dicus

So I tried to pull her from the water -- the shark had made an attack when I was trying to get her out of the water. But it gave me enough time to get her on to the board once he had to come back around to make another attack.

Tim Dicus

He will be playing next year for sure. Fred Couples will also be playing in the Shark Shootout. They said they would play again here next year.

Mike Rowley

We're pretty much convinced it's not a rogue shark or a shark out there -- one shark that's doing all the damage.

John Naughton

I trusted my instincts here, but I'm not stupid. The next thing I did was throw him into the shark tank, ... I threw him in with Ray Charles.

Taylor Hackford

I knew guys who wrestled in bars for a couple hundred dollars. It's no different than a pool shark. You can see how it escalates very quickly, especially if there's money involved. That's how our sport had a little bit of a rough reputation.

Leonard Harkless

Sharks: [reciting] I am a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine. If I am to change this image, I must first change myself. Fish are friends, not food.

Finding Nemo

[When asked what constituted a] shark attack, ... We count 'em all, if it involves a shark and a bite.

George Burgess

Simply put, would you rather die of a heart attack or a shark attack? So what scares us, kind of enthuses or excites the media that it might be an exciting story that resonates with people. And, yes, they do play those stories up because of that factor.

David Ropeik

It is sort of unusual that in the middle of the day the shark came in so close to shore.

John Naughton

This was as good of a pitching outing by three people that I could hope for. We had the Great White Shark mentality I've been preaching about.

Dave Orzel

When you look at the number of shark attacks we have, it's extremely small.

John Naughton

I was most concerned about whether (the shark) was going to come back. You are in a panic mode. I'm losing fingers, I was bleeding all over the place and you don't know if you are going to be hit again. You are so vulnerable and if he took another hit, it would have been it.

Jonathan Genant

The juggernaut -- the best and biggest military force in the world -- lumbers on, doing what it knows how to do best. It is unwilling to rethink its future, unable to let go of the past. Like the shark, it must keep feeding, only now it is feeding on itself.

William Greider

I lived in a condo in [Jersey] but spent my downtime in New York City, mostly at the Shark Bar. They have great Southern food: catfish, collard greens and fried chicken.

Tony Massenburg

Our understanding is that the divers did actually see a shark take their colleague.

Jim Jeffrey

Some of the (people) actually saw a three-foot shark swimming down I-10.

Brian Young

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

You could put your hand in the mouth of a smooth dogfish and not get hurt, but you don't want to do that with a sandbar shark.

Greg Skomal

If they were killed by a shark or crocodile ... if that happened the boat would have been found.

Peter Smid

Profit is a new kind of shark that looks just like a dolphin.

John Mcnamara

It is very clear that regional fishery management organizations have failed to properly conserve shark populations. This is a great disappointment for shark conservation.

Karen Steuer

There was a blue shark chewing on it. One of [the men] was using a boat hook to fend off the shark while the other one was wrapping a line around the tail.

Toby Stephenson

She was bleeding quite heavily ... (from) what I've seen and what I've been told, there was more than one shark involved, there could have been up to three.

Peter Harding

The more people in the water, and the more diverse their activities, the more chances somebody will be in the path of a hunting shark.

Barry Bruce

It's like a shark-feeding frenzy.

Ray Williams

She just immediately created her own family in the village where she was. They fell in love with her. When she was struck by the shark and they got her into the canoe, she died very quickly. They carried her through the village in the rain and everyone was chanting.

Kristena Prater

The endangered gray nurse shark is its own worst enemy.

Guan Xuebin

There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.

L. M. Boyd

That calls for a lot of speculation. We're not even sure what species the shark was.

David Griffin