Quotes About Cuttlefish

#1. Crazy as a cuttlefish
Nasty as a RAT
Put her in a pie dish
Give her to the CAT!

Angie Sage

#2. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

George Orwell

#3. Vimes relaxed a little. Detritus's intelligence wasn't too bad for a troll, falling somewhere between a cuttlefish and a line-dancer, but you could rely on him not to let it slow him down. Detritus

Terry Pratchett

#4. He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.

John Ray

#5. How did an allegedly free people spawn a vast, rampant cuttlefish of dominion with its tentacles in every orifice of the body politic?

P. J. O'Rourke

#6. Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.

Joseph Addison

#7. The room blued into view, and I wondered where the night had gone.

Sylvia Plath

#8. Lying flat against the tile of the kitchen floor listening to someone else have sex is essentially my early twenties in a nutshell.

David Rakoff

#9. Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken.

Mallory Ortberg

#10. Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday - that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run
ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he, himself, has given no intimation?

Abraham Lincoln

#11. Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it's formed.

Elon Musk

#12. After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East.

Lawrence R. Klein

#13. Nature, left to her own devices, finds it hard to produce anything that is ugly. The work of the plant breeder should always be to enhance nature, not to detract from it ... we should strive to develop the rose's beauty in flower, growth and leaf.

David C.H. Austin

#14. I love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything.

Michael Jackson

#15. Miss Leary, do you mean to insinuate that I should go encouraging homo-sex-uality amongst these corpses?

William Lindsay Gresham

#16. I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.

William Shatner

#17. The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

John Eldredge

#18. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.

Anonymous