Here’s a selection of Jaws Quotes, covering topics such as needing a bigger boat, comedy, searching and life.
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God isn’t going to scribble across the sky. “the shark is gone.
Ellen
Brody: Wanna get drunk and fool around?
Brody: Oh Yeah.
Brody: Wanna get drunk and fool around?
Brody: Oh Yeah.
I don’t think either one of you are familiar with our problems!
Hooper ladled chum, which sounded to brody, every time it hit the water, like diarrhea.
Here’s to swimmin’ with bow legged women
I know a taxidermy man back home. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him.
Odds might be good, but the stakes were prohibitively high. He.
Smile you son of a.. (shoots the scuba tank in the shark’s mouth, the tank explodes and the shark is blown to pieces, laughs manically)
Intellectually, they knew a great deal. Practically, they chose to know almost nothing.
Mayor Vaughn: Any special questions?
Denherder: Uh, is that $3000 bounty on the shark in cash or check?Mrs.
Taft: I don’t think that’s funny. I don’t think that’s funny at all, I’m sorry.
Denherder: Uh, is that $3000 bounty on the shark in cash or check?Mrs.
Taft: I don’t think that’s funny. I don’t think that’s funny at all, I’m sorry.
Here lies the body of Mary Lee. Died at the of age of a hundred and three. For fifteen years she kept her virginity; not a bad record for this vicinity.
Well, this is not a boat accident! And it wasn’t any propeller; and it wasn’t any coral reef; and it wasn’t Jack the Ripper! It was a shark.
You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark’s in the water, our shark.
I’m chief of police, I can do anything…
Well it proves one thing, Mr. Hooper. It proves that you wealthy college boys don’t have the education enough to admit when you’re wrong. [Quint enters the cabin as Hooper makes faces at him]
Brody: On the water?
Hooper: Well, if we’re looking for a shark we’re not gonna find it on the land.
Hooper: Well, if we’re looking for a shark we’re not gonna find it on the land.
The great fish moved silently through the night water.
It’s only an island if you look at it from the water.
There’s nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That’s their instinct. But this fish doesn’t run from anything. He doesn’t fear.
Mr. Vaughan, 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.
The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.
This is the story of Mary McGee, lived to the age of 103. For 50 years she kept her virginity, not a bad record for this vicinity.
Hooper ya idiot. Starboard. Aint you watchin’ it?
Front, bow. Back, stern. If ya don’t get it right, squirt, I throw your *ss out the little round window on the side.
arewell and adieu to you, fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu, you ladies of Spain. For we’ve received orders for to sail back to Boston. And so nevermore shall we see you again.
This shark, swallow you whole.
A quick, sharp laugh from quint broke the thread of tension. “what a pair of
assholes,” he said. “i seen that coming since you came aboard this morning.
assholes,” he said. “i seen that coming since you came aboard this morning.
I can do anything; I’m the chief of police.
Quint: You’ve got city boy hands, Hooper. You been countin’ money all your life.
Hooper: I don’t need this working-class-hero crap.
Hooper: I don’t need this working-class-hero crap.
Carcharadon carcharias. Six thousand
pounds of muscle powering a hoop
of butcher’s knives. The only animal
that ate its weaker siblings in the womb.
immune from cancer. Constantly awake.
pounds of muscle powering a hoop
of butcher’s knives. The only animal
that ate its weaker siblings in the womb.
immune from cancer. Constantly awake.
Boys, oh boys… I think he’s come back for his noon feeding.
To become a better you, secure your dreams from the jaws of people who discredit your ambitions.
I’m not going to waste my time arguing with a man who’s lining up to be a hot lunch.
Hooper: That’s a twenty footer.
Quint: Twenty-five. Three tons of him.
Quint: Twenty-five. Three tons of him.
Any weapon’s only as good as the man using it, and a good man can make a good weapon out of most anything.
The thing about a shark, it’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes. When it comes at you it doesn’t seem to be livin’… until he bites you, and those black eyes roll over white.
Mayor Vaughn: What kind of a shark did you say it was?
Hooper: Carcaradon carcharias. A Great White.
Hooper: Carcaradon carcharias. A Great White.
Is it true that most people get attacked by sharks in three feet of water about ten feet from the beach?
Jaws 4 is so bad it makes jaws 3 look like jaws 2.
The tide is with us today.”(after the death of the shark and as they are paddling to shore)
ha,ha-they’re all gonna die.
“Slow ahead.” I can go slow ahead. Come on down here and chum some of this sh*t.
It proves that you wealthy college boys don’t have the education enough to admit you’re wrong.
[In shock to the shark’s abilities] Ever had one do this before?
Here lies the body of Mary Lee; died at the age of a hundred and three. For fifteen years she kept her viginity; not a bad record for this vicinity.
Mikey sure enjoyed his present.
Promises are meant to be broken, n so are the jaws of those who say so…
Doctor, I can’t come to Brisbane when I’ve a Great White shark problem!
Mr. Vaughan, what we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er… 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.
Sharks are like ax-murderers, martin. People react to them with their guts. There’s something crazy and evil and uncontrollable about them.
One of the few advantages man has over other animals is the ability to choose the way to bring on his own death. Food may well kill me, but it’s also what has made life such a pleasure.
(After light on Orca goes out) He ate the light!
We have caught and killed a large predator that supposedly injured some bathers.
[On radio] Your husband’s all right, Mrs. Brody. He’s fishing. He’s just caught a couple of stripers. We’ll bring ’em in for dinner. We won’t be long, we haven’t seen anything yet. Over and out.
The fish might well have disappeared already, but brody wasn’t willing to gamble lives on the possibility: the odds might be good, but the stakes were prohibitively high.
He felt at once betrayed and betrayer, deceived and deceiver. He was a criminal forced into crime, an unwilling whore.
[singing] Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain. For we’ve received orders for to sail back to Boston. And so never more shall we see you again.
Slow ahead…I can go slow ahead! Why don’t you come down here and chum of this sh*t?!
(handing Sean to Ellen) Wanna take him home?
What had once seemed shallow and tedious now loomed in memory like paradise.
Now fellas. This is not the time or the place to perform some kind of a half *ss autopsy on a fish. And I’m not going to stand here, and see that thing cut open and see that little Kitner boy spill out all over the dock!
The fish was an enemy. It had come upon the community and killed two men, a woman, and a child. The people of amity would demand the death of the fish. They would need to see it dead before they could feel secure enough to resume their normal lives.
Life’s full of chances to hurt yourself or someone else.
Look, chief, you can’t go off half-cocked looking for vengeance against a fish. That shark isn’t evil. It’s not a murderer. It’s just obeying its own instincts. Trying to get retribution against a fish is crazy.
I think we need a bigger boat!
What am I gonna tell the kids?
[voice imitating W. C. Fields] I don’t have to take this abuse much longer!
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.
YOU GOT ANY BETTER SUGGESTIONS?
Come here (to his son). Give me a kiss.
You’re gonna need a bigger boat!
If you have food in your jaws you have solved all questions for the time being.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…
Stop playin’ with yourself Hooper.
Beware the jabberwock, my son
the jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
beware the jubjub bird, and shun
the frumious bandersnatch!.
the jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
beware the jubjub bird, and shun
the frumious bandersnatch!.
I’ll stuff your friggin’ head in there, man, and find out whether or not it’s a man-eater.
Wow. That’s sort of pretty. In a jaws kind of way.
Quint: I’ll drink to your leg.
Hooper: I’ll drink to your leg.
Quint: Okay, we’ll drink to our legs!
Hooper: I’ll drink to your leg.
Quint: Okay, we’ll drink to our legs!
Brody: I used to hate the water.
Hooper: I can’t imagine why.
Hooper: I can’t imagine why.
Hooper: Ah. Just like I thought… He came up with the Gulf Stream – from southern waters.
Brody: He didn’t eat a car, did he?
Brody: He didn’t eat a car, did he?
To fantasies’, he said. ‘tell me about yours.’ his eyes were a bright, liquid blue, and his lips were parted in a half smile.
Ever think about how much that sucks? sunday is the weekend, but it’s also a school night. Kind of ruins the whole day. Like if you get quiet enough on a sunday night, you can almost hear monday taunting you with the theme from jaws.
Smile you son of a b*tch.
I want these paint happy bastards hung up by their Buster Browns!
Back home we get a taxidermy man, he’s gonna have a heart attack when he sees what I brung him!
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