Quotes About Kraken

#1. This is kraken year zero," Moore said. "This is Anno Teuthis. We're in the end times. What d'you think's been going on?

China Mieville

#2. I've stolen a shirt to wear since my clothing has gone missing. You may as well get used to living without it because there is no way I'm giving up a tee that says 'To unleash the Kraken is to unzip my pants.

Nikki Winter

#3. As we look out to sea, a great shadow seems to move under the water. He can see it, says W. - 'Look: the kraken of your idiocy'. Yes, there it is, moving darkly beneath the water.

Lars Iyer

#4. You died in your sleep? Drunk driver? Cancer,huh? World war? Well ... yeah those deaths are great and all,but wait till I tell you what happened to me. Yeah ... that's right ... I said kraken.

Colleen Houck

#5. How may a mortal, face and defeat the Kraken

Beverley Cross

#6. Just because a Kraken has killer claws, fangs, and poisonous skin doesn't mean he's bloody dangerous.

Hati Bell

#7. But this was not quite the right kraken apocalypse.

China Mieville

#8. Shit seemed to get crazy the moment I whipped out my dick, like unleashing the goddamn Kraken every time I unzipped my pants.

Keri Lake

#9. When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken - you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years.

Tom Hanks

#10. I smirked at Ren before answering. "Yes. I dreamed I fed Ren to the kraken."
Tigers Voyage
Pg. 405

Colleen Houck

#11. Aye, get to cover! 'Tis a Kraken!" Sora

T.L. Shreffler

#12. If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kraken.
[on Twitter, July 17, 2012]

Scott Lynch

#13. Time to release the kraken, Mr Fenton,

A.W. Exley

#14. Juno MacGuff: Wise move. I know this girl who had a huge crazy freakout because she took too many behavioral meds at once. She took off all her clothes and jumped into the fountain at Ridgedale Mall and she was like, "Blaaaaah! I'm a kraken from the sea!"
Su-Chin: That was you.

Diablo Cody

#15. What a Kraken grasps it does not lose, be it a longship or leviathan.

George R R Martin

#16. With the news reporting soaring food prices and shrinking crops on all continents, the project made sense, even good sense. But he nevertheless felt unsettled about it, like a warning he had received and then forgotten, the shadow of a Kraken passing beneath the surface.

Berit Ellingsen

#17. 'Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.

China Mieville

#18. 'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.

China Mieville

#19. At times we gasped for breath at an elevation beyond the albatross
at times became dizzy with the velocity of our descent into some watery hell, where the air grew stagnant, and no sound disturbed the slumbers of the kraken.

Edgar Allan Poe

#20. Once the wounded child awakens to its human self, a primal scream emerges from the depths of denial like the Kraken released from its underwater prison.

Christopher Zzenn Loren

#21. The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.

Terry Pratchett

#22. To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy.

Edna Buchanan

#23. Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.

Rush Limbaugh

#24. There can be nothing more frightening in a gigantic monster of many tentacles than intelligence.

A.E. Marling

#25. I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a world without birdsong.

Terry Tempest Williams

#26. I would parade you in the hall of the monarchs of the ocean if you could breathe water.

S.M. Wheeler

#27. Nationalism: the love of tribal fictions inspired by the hatred of social realities.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#28. Our beliefs are creating our reality.

Joe Vitale

#29. Life sucks, there's no way around that. But you never know when the good might come. Maybe it won't, but you shouldn't count it out. And besides, that's what makes us human, right? Even if it seems impossible, even when there is no point, we fight to the death with smiles on our faces.

Kyle West

#30. I don't believe in your God. And he sure as hell doesn't believe in me.

Max Hawthorne

#31. You don't know if he's pissed or just laughing at you.

Graham McNamee

#32. You are an amazing woman. I could not have chosen a better place to let my heart rest than in your hands.

C.C. Wood

#33. Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

Alan Dershowitz

#34. At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand. He tried to drop it, but it stuck to his hand. His arm became a branch, his body the trunk of a tree, his feet took root.

C.S. Lewis

#35. If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.

Sid Caesar

#36. Great big bugger,' said Aziraphale. 'Sleepeth beneath the thunders of the upper deep. Under loads of huge and unnumbered polypol - polipo - bloody great seaweeds, you know. Supposed to rise to the surface right at the end, when the sea boils.

Terry Pratchett

#37. When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way.

Eric Whitacre

#38. I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly

Ulysses S. Grant

#39. Leviathan is not the biggest fish; - I have heard of Krakens.

Herman Melville

#40. I saw a post the other day, where someone wrote that, when they walk through a library, they touch the spines of all the books they've read , as a way of greeting their favorite characters . . .

Try that with one of my novels, and you'll walk away counting your fingers!

Max Hawthorne

#41. I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or 14 years old. But I was also really shy when I was growing up.

Steven Strait