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It's almost like the Jets and the Sharks.

Christopher Hickey

When we look at data over the past 20 years, we get a size distribution of sharks.

Greg Skomal

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

Dave Barry

They're like sharks. They smelled blood and went after us.

Kyle Tregoning

This is a serious occurrence. I'm not trying to down play that, but we're also trying to give you a perspective on the frequency of these activities. Sharks do frequent those areas.

David Griffin

I do love sharks. The tuna fishermen go and fin the sharks and dump 'em back into the ocean. It's basically mutilation.

Brooke Burns

He's done great work over the past years in public education and conservation for sharks. We support his effort and he should continue. He is hard working, very knowledgeable about his issue and fisheries in general.

Mark Berman

You have to repopulate slowly. To capture a couple of sharks and move them across the country, you have to have holding spaces, isolation and quarantine areas . . . Catching them is the easier part. Getting them from here to there without mortal damage is what gets complicated.

John Hewitt

They're like sharks who smell blood.

Bobby Chen

In general sharks are struggling in the wild, and leopard sharks are no different. If these animals aren't allowed to reach an age or size where they can reproduce before they are removed from the environment, that has drastic implications for future generations.

Christina Slager

Sharks are declining globally, yet the movements and habitats of most species are unknown.

Barbara Block

This business is one of the most predatory on the face of the earth, ... It preys on people who can least afford it. They have higher rates than loan sharks. They may not break any legs, but they are taking food out of the mouth of kids.

Jack Clark

Against a team like the Sharks you can't make many mistakes. We played a really solid game and didn't make many mistakes.

Mike Comrie

We are observing the whale sharks.

Governor Miguel Dominguez

There are these white-tipped reef sharks that won't hurt you. It's not the sharks you have to watch out for, it's the jellyfish - they call them stingers.

Katy Johnson

If you go to any reef around the world, except for those that are really protected, the sharks are gone. Their value is so great that completely harmless sharks, like whale sharks, are killed, for their fins.

Ransom Myers

No. Sharks are kind of lazy, and they know they're going to be fed.

Lisa Balabanow

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

I still have this vision of the shark's open jaw and eye.

Trevor Wright

The educational value of sharks in captivity is overrated.

Mark Palmer

There are no pet stores that sell 9-foot sharks.

John Hewitt

We were hustling to try to get the fish in because the area was loaded with big sharks, and it was one heck of a fight trying to horse that monster.

George Poveromo

Sharks are just something you've got to deal with.

Jeff White

The shark heart slows down in the cold, just as our own heart would, ... But ... where our heart would simply stop, the salmon shark's keeps on ticking.

Barbara Block

We will have to see what happens, but basically there is no substitute for dropping shark's fin altogether.

Martin Baker

I opened it at page 96 - the secret page on which I write my name to catch out borrowers and book-sharks.

Flann O'brien

Sharks have home ranges that are at the scale of ocean basins.

Barbara Block

They're like loan sharks, but they don't break legs.

Joel Greenberg

We have heard reports of people with a lot of money, including sports figures, trying to one up each other by buying exotic fish such as black tip reef sharks. We're concerned that reefs might be wrecked and fish depleted.

Jane Ballentine

Sharks are some of the least understood predators on the planet. ... We can go to the moon and plan a trip to Mars, but we're barely starting a mission in the Pacific Ocean.

Barbara Block

They are, in fact, some of the oldest known skeletons of early sharks, which makes them really important for us to study.

John Maisey

What we must do now is to get up and play against the Sharks like the Bulls did after we defeated them in the Currie Cup final.

Rassie Erasmus

On the other hand, if large sharks such as tiger sharks are declining, there may be more black tip sharks, which are among their prey.

Dan Abel

Otherwise the German media market will become an object of speculation for foreign financial sharks who will ruin the German media system.

Michael Konken

His big thing was to fish for sharks off the piers.

Preston Freeburger

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.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...

Trieu Thi Trinh

We have greatly enjoyed our affiliation with the Fresno Falcons, ... They have done a great job in helping us prepare and develop several players for the Sharks organization, most recently Nolan Schaefer and Glenn Olson. We are excited to have them back on board for the 2005-06 season.

Wayne Thomas

Spielberg certainly made the most superb movie; Peter was very pleased. But Peter kept telling people the book was fiction, it was a novel, and that he took no more responsibility for the fear of sharks than Mario Puzo took responsibility for the Mafia.

Wendy Benchley

If we found them (the sharks) I suppose we would try to retrieve them and see if they have any body parts. The idea is to retrieve what we can.

Peter Harding

After years of covering wars, it's really nice to get the adrenaline going. Going into a cage with sharks does that.

Bob Simon

It looks like this has some traction. Candidates are like sharks: When they smell blood, they will strike. And the sharks are definitely in the water now.

Silas Lee

We've always tried to reduce the number of people getting bit by sharks through education and awareness. We try to get our safety tips out through our Web site and in publications.

Randy Honebrink

This is absolutely not the case and Sale Sharks, along with every other Premiership club, are clearly within their right to play their English Lions in the Premiership if they chose to do so.

Brian Kennedy

I like to check on the position of the sharks with my coffee every morning.

Barbara Block