“Our love is forbidden like the love of a shark and a—and a shark hunter. But that’s what makes it special.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
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“It’s a shame everyone is so afraid of sharks but we love our monsters.”
Source: Sean Daly Live at Shark Con-Julie Andersen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxL0X3uZIy0 (May 3, 2014)
“I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
Letter to Sir Humphry Davy (15 July 1800)
Letters
“No harder than walking a tightrope over a pit. A deep pit. Filled with sharks. Radioactive sharks.”
John C. Wright (1961) American novelist and technical writer
Source: Titans of Chaos (2007), Chapter 10, “Love’s Proper Hue” Section 7 (p. 157)
“Never, ever retract. The smell of weakness is like blood to sharks.”
Pamela Geller (1958) blogger, author, political activist, and commentator
"Pamela Geller speaks to the Sugar Land Tea Party in Sugar Land, Texas" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLzlQ7WrvfQ&t=0h20m41s, Sugar Land, Texas
“There were clouds like sharks with open jaws in the sky that morning.”
Tanith Lee (1947–2015) British writer
Source: Short fiction, The Winter Players (1976), Chapter 6, “Blue Cave” (p. 170)
Guillaume Apollinaire book Alcools
Moi qui sais des lais pour les reines
Les complaintes de mes années
Des hymnes d'esclave aux murènes
La romance du mal-aimé
Et des chansons pour les sirènes
"La Chanson du Mal-Aimé" (Song of the Poorly Loved), line 91; translation by William Meredith, from Francis Steegmuller Apollinaire: Poet Among the Painters (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973) p. 97.
Alcools (1912)
“Like most sharks, Margaret liked to think of herself as a victim of the cruel sea.”
Craig Ferguson book Between the Bridge and the River
Between the Bridge and the River (2006)
“Look Tony, what are the odds of a prime minister being drowned or taken by a shark?”
Harold Holt (1908–1967) Australian politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia
private conversation recounted by his press secretary Tony Eggleton, after being confronted about the dangers of his hobby
As prime minister
Source: The Life and Death of Harold Holt, p. 273.