Oceanic Creatures Quotes

You Know the Most Dangerous Thing In the Water? A Shark Fart.

Seagulls . . . slim yachts of the element.

I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of drugs' sort of way." - Becks

I closed my eyes and curled my fists around the things I knew for sure: That a scallop has thirty-five eyes, all blue. That a tuna will suffocate if it ever stops swimming. That I was loved. That this time, it was not me who broke

There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.

We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.

I'm a fish swimming by...catch me if you want me.

I have a slight fear of sharks for some reason.I have a slight fear of sharks for some reason.

I guess if I had to pick one interest that is unique, it would be giant squids - I'm disturbingly fascinated by them and even wrote a story about the hunt for them.

There is something about dolphins. It is difficult to put into words.

Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures.

The water is alive. It is alive. If we could get a mask and fins and drop down off these docks, we'd see snook and redfish and probably goliath grouper. And it's an amazing world unto itself and a very thin demarcation between one world and the other. You know, the distance of the water surface.

Sharks have a deadly form of claustrophobia. It's not so much fear of enclosed spaces as it is inability to exist in them. No one knows why. Some say it's the metal in aquariums that throws their equilibrium off. But whatever it is, big sharks don't last long in captivity

I'm actually very scared of sharks. I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was young, which may not have been compatible with that fear.