Quotes About The Kraken

#1. 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

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

Terry Pratchett

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

A.W. Exley

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

Colleen Houck

#5. 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

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

Beverley Cross

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

T.L. Shreffler

#11. I had dinner with my father last night, and made a classic Freudian slip. I meant to say, "Please pass the salt," but it came out, "You prick, you ruined my childhood.

Jonathan Ned Katz

#12. Carbon is the basis of human life and iron of robot life. It becomes easy to speak of C/Fe when you wish express a culture that combines the best of the two on an equal but parallel basis.

Isaac Asimov

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

Max Hawthorne

#14. I hope this book helps people to heal & their not the only one because no one is a mistake God put you on earth for one reason. I am not a mistake.

Shawn Woods

#15. I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off.

Elizabeth Warren

#16. 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

#17. I began to invent something new: a way to hang together without pretending I was whole

Shelley Jackson

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

China Mieville

#19. Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

Saint Augustine

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

S.M. Wheeler

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

Hati Bell

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

A.E. Marling

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. The real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself.

Kirsten Dunst

#26. across his eyes, then sorrow, before he lowered his chin.

MaryLu Tyndall

#27. 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

#28. Enjoy your children, even when they don't act the way you want them to

Muhammad Ali

#29. '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

#30. '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

#31. 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

#32. If you could go back in time, what advice would you give your 21 y/o self? Answer: Think about your actions. They have consequences.

Claire Contreras

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

Herman Melville

#34. 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

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

George R R Martin

#36. 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

#37. 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