Rock music sounds like an octopus making love to a bagpipe.

“What does it feel like to be an octopus? To be a jellyfish? Does it feel like anything at all? Which were the first…

— Peter Godfrey-Smith

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.

— Gladys Taber

“Perhaps the highlight was Natalie on top of the table, doing some kind of dance that made her look like an octopus.”

— Kiera Cass

“and a whimsical ceramic sugar bowl shaped like an octopus.”

— Christa Faust

When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of…

— Ben Lerner

“Once one seizes happiness, one should hang onto it like an octopus.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

...I got to try the bagpipes. It was like trying to blow an octopus.

— James Galway

“You're like an octopus then? Your skin can like really actually change like--like an octopus, like a cuttle fish, like all those things I've…

— Rachel Saylor

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…

— Justin Timberlake

“Astonishing. In the morning, when she sat working at that table of correspondence, silhouetted by sunlight . . . Her hair truly did look…

— Tessa Dare

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,…

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

“And don’t get me started on your hands roaming everywhere. You’re like an octopus. Honestly, I feel violated.”

— A&E Kirk

“Kaua e mate wheke. Me mate ururoa. (Don't die like an octopus. Die like a hammerhead shark.)”

— Maori proverb

“He had laid his head back until his scalp had contacted his spine, that far back, and opened his throat, and a sound rose…

— Denis Johnson