Top 96 Quotes About Octopus
#1. It was a woman
as pale and luminescent as a ghost, with swirling white hair. Ezra startled, dropping his pencil into the water. Her face snapped toward him. Her eyes were too large, clear green, and had horizontal, slit-shaped pupils, reminiscent of an octopus.
Elizabeth Fama
#2. At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time your mind was somewhere else. By the time you got to seventy, it was probably like watching snooker on the telly.
Mark Haddon
#3. There's really not a difference between an octopus and, like, a giant pile of snot.
Mike Rowe
#4. He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.
Cassandra Clare
#5. Look at this save. Cat-like, jungle-like, quick. Big puma. Big, beautiful, brave gladiator goalkeeper. Spartacus, I called him. Mix in a bit of octopus. Beautiful.
Ray Hudson
#6. She exuded sexuality almost tangible, like ink obscuring the waters around the octopus before it strikes.
Travis Luedke
#7. Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.
Charles Fort
#8. I waved back and went in, and began to sort my way through ancient building plans that had been rolled up so long that straightening them out was like six bouts with an octopus.
Dick Francis
#9. 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
#10. Taking a couple short backup swigs, Flint's crippling headache started to release its grip, sort of the way he imagined an octopus would release an inedible bowling ball.
Cole Alpaugh
#11. It's like trying to fit an octopus into a pair of tuxedo pants. And not a plain octopus at that, but an octopus that doesn't even exist.
Arkady Strugatsky
#12. Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest ... Lots of nuts, vegetables, fruits, fresh fish, lean meats, yogurt.
Cat Cora
#13. I was bitten by an octopus.
Ted Cruz
#14. Talking to that fool is like trying to put socks on an octopus!
James Agee
#15. 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
#16. Dressing a baby is like putting an octopus into a string bag, making sure none of the arms hang out.
Chris Evans
#17. He is a messenger from Slothrop's innocent, pre-octopus past.
Thomas Pynchon
#18. If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature,
H.P. Lovecraft
#19. [T]he most repugnant bastard there is: the bastard-octopus.
Roland Barthes
#20. Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors.
Raf Simons
#21. I got to try the bagpipes. It was like trying to blow an octopus.
James Galway
#22. opponent was half pillbug, half octopus, and all butt ugly. I closed
Richard Roberts
#23. And since October is coming to an end, what better time to draw Octo-Bear, the bear that is an octopus!
Dan Bergstein
#24. The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
Dodie Smith
#25. 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
#26. Despite a primitive brain, the octopus possesses an intricate system that helps it decide which tentacle to masturbate with.
Dana Gould
#27. After all that I had read during the night. Even into this quiet place the war had reached like the tentacle of an octopus and had touched this girl and brought about her death. Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over.
Nevil Shute
#28. I got hit with an octopus in Detroit one time. It was the most gross thing I've ever had happen. I got it right in the back of the neck; all the juice was coming down. It was awful.
Pat Burns
#29. We split from our common ancestor with the octopus half a billion years ago. And yet, you can make friends with an octopus.
Sy Montgomery
#30. Right. So you haven't been spending every spare hour round at geeky and slaphead's, then?"
"Don't call them that. They have names." Although privately I had my own names for them: octopus and trouser python.
Josephine Myles
#32. Exaggeration is the octopus of the English language
Matthew Pearl
#33. The multitude was a frothing octopus, pulsating anthropomorphically over the church steps.
Ondjaki
#34. The first time I had a baked potato, I was eight years old at a friend's house. Most white kids growing up have a baked potato every day. I didn't even know what to do with it, how to open it. I was the only white kid in high school eating octopus.
Scott Fujita
#35. For dinner I want real sushi - not the Americanized kind. My parents are American Samoan so I don't go for any of those rolls. I'll have raw prawn or sea urchin or octopus. I love it.
Junior Seau
#36. 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
#37. They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.
Luigi Barzini
#38. Mischief and craft are plainly seen to be characteristics of this creature. - Claudius Aelianus, third century A.D., writing about the octopus
Peter Godfrey-Smith
#39. So, if an octopus is this smart," Steve asked Bill, "what other animals are out there that could be this smart--that we don't think of as being sentient and having personality and memories and all these things?
Sy Montgomery
#40. The most repulsive thing you could ever imagine is the inside of a camel's mouth. That and watching a girl eat octopus or squid.
Marlon Brando
#41. Businesses are great structures for managing big projects. It's like trying to develop the ability to walk without developing a skeleton. Once in a blue moon, you get an octopus, but for the most part, you get skeletons. Skeletons are good shit.
Cory Doctorow
#42. And don't get me started on your hands roaming everywhere. You're like an octopus. Honestly, I feel violated.
A&E Kirk
#43. 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.
#44. Though many of the poor have come to see the affluent middle class as its enemy, that class actually stands between the poor and the real powers in this society - the administrative octopus with its head in Washington, the conglomerates, the military complex.
Cesar Chavez
#45. When Mary is confused or perplexed, she spurts anger the way an octopus spurts ink, and hides in the dark cloud of it.
John Steinbeck
#46. To get to know someone so different from myself as an octopus, and to know that the individual recognised me and even enjoyed my company, was an enormous privilege. The octopuses I came to know were strong but gentle, and the suction of their suckers tasting my skin pulled me like an alien's kiss.
Sy Montgomery
#47. Now, I don't know if you can appreciate this without actually knowing her, but getting Mrs. Stricker to laugh is like getting an octopus to stand up on two legs.
James Patterson
#48. In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where's his basis for comparing?
Thomas Pynchon
#49. That particular octopus committed suicide, didn't he? He stabbed himself with his own beak.
Richard Madeley
#50. With the exception of octopus, I don't think I've met any food that I didn't like. And by the way, sometimes I do like octopus. I'm just not crazy about it by itself. I love sea urchin. I love uni. If I'm going to die of anything, it's going to be gluttony.
Justin Timberlake
#51. The Hawaiian creation myth relates that the present cosmos is only the last of a series, having arisen in stages from the wreck of the previous universe. In this account, the octopus is the lone survivor of the previous, alien universe.
Roland Burrage Dixon
#52. Today's woman must be a prostitute in the kitchen, a ghost in the bedroom, a sniper on the parapet, an octopus at sea world.
Rob Thompson
#53. 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
#54. An octopus has eight legs. You know what else has eight legs? My bed last night. Oh, I didn't have a foursome, but I did sleep with six prosthetic legs (I have a bad back).
Jarod Kintz
#55. Antonio Sanchez is from Mexico City. I met him at a Pat Metheny concert. He did a solo, and I thought, 'This is an octopus man!'
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#56. And a whimsical ceramic sugar bowl shaped like an octopus.
Christa Faust
#57. If the plural of "octopus" is "octopi" then why isn't the plural of "rabbit" "rabbi"? Is it just because "octopuses" is too much fun to say? *
Jenny Lawson
#58. Yes, and this is mine. (Baldrick produces a single scruffy piece of paper.)
My magnificent octopus.
Richard Curtis
#59. I didn't have a lot of fighting experience, but I would punch an octopus if I had to, to save a life.
Abigail Barnette
#60. The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.
Rebecca West
#62. Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
Norton Juster
#63. Aithinne smiles. "You know," she says thoughtfully, "your hair rather looks like an octopus." Then, as if to reassure me: "I love octopi."
And Aithinne is obviously a bit barmy, but nobody's perfect.
Elizabeth May
#64. Octopus can fish for prey while deciding what color and pattern to turn, what shape to make their bodies, be on alert for predators and aware how far away their dens are.
Sy Montgomery
#65. Different creatures have different eyes. Human eyes (unlike, say, a cat's eyes, or an octopus's) are only made to see one version of reality at a time.
Neil Gaiman
#66. Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#67. If guilt was an animal then it would be an octopus. All slimy and wriggly with hundreds of arms that wrap around your insides and squeeze them tight.
Annabel Pitcher
#68. Brandt and a couch-or worse, an empty master bedroom-were a very bad combo. He morphed from vaguely risque fling to bad-boy octopus man whenever he was in the vicinity of any marginally promising flat surface.
Diana Peterfreund
#69. The tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.
Gladys Taber
#70. When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of perception beyond his individual body.
Ben Lerner
#71. Joke:
What was the octopus's favorite game at the beach BBQ?
Tidal Pool Twister
Heather Wolf
#72. I smile to myself. I have a secret: I wish I was Dumbo the Octopus.
Ned Vizzini
#73. But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of the tides, and with which we should be appalled to find ourselves condemned to live.
Marcel Proust
#74. Perhaps the highlight was Natalie on top of the table, doing some kind of dance that made her look like an octopus.
Kiera Cass
#75. The fact that three-fifths of an octopus' neurons are not in their brain, but in their arms, suggests that each arm has a mind of its own.
Sy Montgomery
#77. When I would visit my octopus friend, Octavia, at New England aquarium, usually she would look me in the face, flow right over to see me, and flush red with emotion when she took my arms in hers. Often when I'd stroke her she'd turn white beneath my touch, the colour of a relaxed octopus.
Sy Montgomery
#78. Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!
Drew Barrymore
#79. Friends come and go like the waves of the ocean but the true ones stay, like an octopus on your face
Anonymous
#80. Once one seizes happiness, one should hang onto it like an octopus.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#81. But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, she would drop in that accusation.
Ford Madox Ford
#82. Teaching without talent, compassion and endurance is like an octopus on skates - there will be movement without direction.
Kavita Bhupta Ghosh
#83. Soun Tendo: Drowned Octopus Spring?
Guide from Jusenkyo: Is tragic tale of giant octopus who drown 1600 year ago ... somehow.
Rumiko Takahashi
#84. We watch the chef slice eel and octopus, delicate operations of dismemberment and amputation. For some reason it makes me think of poetry.
Jessica Martinez
#85. In the cab going downtown, Doug believed he now understood the sensations felt by a person slowly sinking into the grasp of an octopus. Play dead, he told himself. But how?
Donald E. Westlake
#86. 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
#87. They don't want to hear how Octavia is different from us. They want to know how we're the same. They know what it's like to have an itch. They can imagine what it's like to be a mother. This brief encounter has changed them. Now they can identify with an octopus. They
Sy Montgomery
#88. I've traveled all over. I've been to all 50 states. With my dad in the Navy, I lived in the Philippines from nine to 12, and I had dog, monkey, lizard, everything. Then I was in Hawaii, and I'm spear-fishing, catching octopus with my hands.
Graham Elliot
#89. I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.
N. Scott Momaday
#91. . . . More octo . . .pi?' Thaniel said, knowing that it sounded wrong, though so did puses and podes. He tried to think where he had heard it last , but he did not often have business with more than one octopus at a time.
Natasha Pulley
#92. How many color patterns can your severed arm produce in one second?
Wendy Williams
#93. We bring champagne to Franklin and Jeffrey, and I offer a final toast, 'Wishing you all good things in your life together.' Short, simple, to the point.
I look at Meredith, relaxed in her ivory gown, my sister is all grown up. I'm grateful we did our growing up together.
Steven Rowley
#94. 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
#96. The sun
shines in a bucket of water
and doesn't
get wet.
Brian Taylor
