Octopus famous quotes

There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Years #Octopus #Letters

He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Hair #Blue #Octopus

Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.
-- Charles Fort

#Octopus #Way #Stumps

I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.
-- Che Guevara

#Octopus #Capitalist #Comrade

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.
-- China Mieville

#Two #Octopus #Monsters

Sometimes I pretend to be an octopus.  But then people are like ‘Darren what’re you doing?’ And I just sit there and laugh because they’re not cool enough to be an octopus and I’m just like ‘Hah you’re just jealous because you’re not an octopus.’
-- Darren Criss

#Jealous #Octopus #People

Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!
-- Drew Barrymore

#Cute #Kissing #Octopus

Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you, squeezing not hard enough to kill you, but enough to keep you from reeling until you try to get away. Try, and you hunger for it grasping clutch, the way its tendrils prop you up, your need intensifying exponentially every minute you refuse to admit its being (p.469)
-- Ellen Hopkins

#Octopus #Trying #Monsters

Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for a widely distributed nervous system. That is why a severed octopus arm may crawl on its own and even pick up food.
-- Frans de Waal

#Octopus #Brain #Neurons

No one ever explained the octopuses.
-- Gail Carriger

#Octopus

It's better to be an octopus than a fish. If an octopus loses a tentacle to a predator, the octopus will survive with seven tentacles left for itself.
-- Gene Simmons

#Inspirational #Octopus #Predator

the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.
-- Gladys Taber

#Past #Yesterday #Octopus

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#Funny Inspirational #Octopus #Discipline

...I got to try the bagpipes. It was like trying to blow an octopus.
-- James Galway

#Blow #Octopus #Trying

Those who believe in this type of thing [Paul the Octopus, who ‘predicted’ the result of World Cup matches] cannot be the leaders of the global nations that aspire, like Iran, to human perfection, basing themselves in the love of all sacred values.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Believe #Octopus #Iran

Derek Randall bats like an octopus with piles
-- Matthew Engel

#Octopus #Bats

On 'Chopped,' the time goes down a bit and there are several ingredients, usually one that makes no sense whatsoever with the rest of the ingredients. So it gets you out of your culinary comfort zone a little bit. Like we had octopus and cheese paired up with each other.
-- Michael Symon

#Octopus #Littles #Ingredients

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
-- Mira Grant

#Cute #Octopus #Drug

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
-- Norton Juster

#Octopus #Heard #Covered

Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors.
-- Raf Simons

#Fashion #Team #Octopus

The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.
-- Rebecca West

#Fighting #Octopus #Mind

That particular octopus committed suicide, didn't he? He stabbed himself with his own beak.
-- Richard Madeley

#Suicide #Octopus #Beaks

The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat...
-- Sarah Bernhardt

#Octopus #Gossip #Arms

We grew to our present size almost against ourselves. It was not a deliberately planned commercial venture in the sense that I sat down and said that we were going to make ourselves into a huge financial octopus. We evolved by necessity. We did not sit down and say to ourselves, 'How can we make a big pile of dough?' It just happened.
-- Walt Disney

#Business #Octopus #Down And

Beware as you get the octopus on board. Suddenly he relaxes his grasp, and shhots out a jet of ink, which smarts considerably.
-- Wilfred Grenfell

#Smart #Octopus #Relax

I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink...
-- William S. Burroughs

#Hate #Ignorance #Octopus

Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock . Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue.
-- Theognis of Megara

#Character #Rocks #Octopus

Rock music sounds like an octopus making love to a bagpipe.
-- Brother Dave Gardner

#Rocks #Octopus #Making Love

Dressing a baby is like putting an octopus into a string bag, making sure none of the arms hang out.
-- Chris Evans

#Cute #Baby #Octopus

When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth.
-- Joseph Mitchell

#Octopus #Lobster #West Coast