I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders…

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

— China Mieville

No one ever explained the octopuses.

— Gail Carriger

“Octopuses are tough--and not just in the sense that they can take out sharks (both real and computer generated, as in Mega Shark versus…

— Katherine Harmon Courage

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…

— Frans de Waal

“octopuses, far more than rats and pigeons, have their own ideas:”

— Peter Godfrey-Smith

“Octopuses in at least two aquariums have learned to turn off the lights”

— Peter Godfrey-Smith

“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