...It's like trying to fit an octopus into a pair of…

I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a form of…

— Terence McKenna

“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

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

— Cassandra Clare

“For an octopus, its arms are partly self”

— Peter Godfrey-Smith

Derek Randall bats like an octopus with piles

— Matthew Engel

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

— Raf Simons

“Doc was collecting marine animals in the Great Tide Pool on the tip of the Peninsula. It is a fabulous place: when the tide…

— John Steinbeck

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

“She exuded sexuality almost tangible, like ink obscuring the waters around the octopus before it strikes.”

— Travis Luedke

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…

— Agnes Repplier

I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.

— N. Scott Momaday

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…

— Scott Fujita

“Everything is octopusied.”

— Wendy Williams

Despite a primitive brain, the octopus possesses an intricate system that helps it decide which tentacle to masturbate with.

— Dana Gould

I was in the Far East and I went into a restaurant and I ordered octopus and the waiter said: "It takes four hours."…

— Frank Carson