Summer Shark Attack

With the weather turning warm, it’s time people start itching to hit the water. Water skiing, surfing and swimming call your name. Before you hit the sandy beaches, here are a few quotes from Jaws to put a little fear in your fun.

Larry Vaughn: Martin, it’s all psychological. You yell barracuda, everybody says, “Huh, what?” You yell shark, we’ve got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July.

Matt Hooper: Well, this is not a boat accident, and it wasn’t any propeller; it wasn’t any coral reef, and it wasn’t Jack the Ripper. It was a shark.

Quint: I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, Chief. I’ll find him for three, but I’ll catch him and kill him for ten…For that you can get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing.

Matt Hooper: Well, it doesn’t make much sense for a guy who hates the water to live on an island…

Ellen Brody: My husband tells me you’re in sharks.

Matt Hooper: What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine—an eating machine. It’s really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks, and that’s all.

Martin Brody: You’re gonna need a bigger boat.

Matt Hooper: I’m not gonna waste my time arguing with a man who’s lining up to be a hot lunch.

Quint: Ya know, a thing about a shark, he’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at you, he doesn’t seem to be living until he bites you and those black eyes roll over white, and then, then you hear that terrible high pitch screaming.

Quint: Back home we got a taxidermy man. He’s gonna have a heart attack when he sees what I brung him.

Quint: So, eleven hundred men went into the water. Three hundred and sixteen men come out, and the sharks took the rest. June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.

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