The computer revolution has allowed white-collar criminals to do what the Mob would have loved to do - put a pawnshop and a loan shark in every home!
Relationships are like sharks. They've got to keep going into deeper, colder water, sometimes scarier, darker territories. . . to stay alive.
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.
When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die.
I think sharks are beautiful creatures, and I don't think we should stop going in the ocean because of them. You drive down the road and you get in an accident, but most people end up driving down the road again. Surfing is you're going into their home and it's just a natural part of life.
What we share may be a lot like a traffic accident but we get one another. We are survivors of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.
By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.
But as they say about sharks, it's not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it's the ones you don't see.
Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.
We still have 10 percent of the sharks. We still have half of the coral reefs. However, if we wait another 50 years, opportunities might well be gone.
I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo.
There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.
Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes
The only thing on the mind of a shark is to eat.
Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish?
It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No--the soul of a man.
Annoyance and pathos warred in my breast, and after a short struggle, annoyance punched pathos in the snout like the voracious shark it was.
What I compare bike lanes to is swimming with the sharks. Sooner or later you're going to get bitten. . . Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks, not for people on bikes. My heart bleeds for them when I hear someone gets killed, but it's their own fault at the end of the day.
What's the inside of a shark smell like? I always thought it would smell like chicken.