97 Quotes by Peter Benchley

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

Any weapon’s only as good as the man using it, and a good man can make a good weapon out of most anything.

Forgive me, I’m a relentless bastard.

It was a funny thing, he thought, that when you live all your life in a place, you almost never do the things that tourists go there to do – like walk on the beach or go swimming in the ocean. He couldn’t remember the last time he went swimming. He wasn’t even sure he still owned a bathing suit. It was like something he had heard about New York – that half the people who live in the city never go to the top of the Empire State Building or visit the Statue of Liberty.

Life’s full of chances to hurt yourself or someone else.

That’s the only hitch in learning: it’s humbling. The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know. Anyway, all that’s a long way around saying that it’s crazy to do things just to prove you can do ’em. The more you learn, the more you’ll find yourself doing things you never thought you could do in a million years.

To fantasies’, he said. ‘Tell me about yours.’ His eyes were a bright, liquid blue, and his lips were parted in a half smile.

Brody felt a shimmy of fear skitter up his back. He was a very poor swimmer, and the prospect of being on top of – let alone in – water above his head give him what his mother used to call the wimwams: sweaty palms, a persistent need to swallow, and a ache in his stomach – essentially the sensation some people feel about flying. In Brody’s dreams, deep water was populated by slimy, savage things that rose from below and shredded his flesh, by demons that cackled and moaned.

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