“Once one seizes happiness, one should hang onto it like an octopus.” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub? — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts. — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
“I am a monster beneath him, with arching hips, an octopus with hands everywhere at once. I don't think anything in the… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
At restaurants, I carry paper and markers and tell everyone to draw a picture with a unicorn, an octopus and an explosion.… — Julie Bowen Copy Share Image
“...It's like trying to fit an octopus into a pair of tuxedo pants. And not a plain octopus at that, but an… — Arkady Strugatsky Copy Share Image
“She exuded sexuality almost tangible, like ink obscuring the waters around the octopus before it strikes.” — Travis Luedke Copy Share Image
The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
I remember when I was in Almeria they called me 'the octopus' because I stole a lot of balls. — Thomas Partey Copy Share Image
“But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, she would drop in… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
On 'Chopped,' the time goes down a bit and there are several ingredients, usually one that makes no sense whatsoever with the… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“if some octopus moved in next door, I would feel hostile superiority because I have a spine and it didn’t, but that… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
As we've often said, to the world at large, Marvel looks like a giant octopus that's out to swallow the galaxy -… — Jeph Loeb Copy Share Image
Sometimes I pretend to be an octopus. But then people are like ‘Darren what’re you doing?’ And I just sit there and… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
“I waved back and went in, and began to sort my way through ancient building plans that had been rolled up so… — Dick Francis Copy Share Image
At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“What, everyone you know has been kidnapped by pirates and forced to chop octopus in a kitchen that smells like a whale's… — Claire Fayers Copy Share Image
I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“Doc was collecting marine animals in the Great Tide Pool on the tip of the Peninsula. It is a fabulous place: when… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He let his eyes flitter over her. “I don’t see anything ‘precisely.’ I can tell you’re slender. I can see you’re wearing… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“The affection the aquarists felt for the octopus appeared to be mutual. For the hours that they swam together, though the massive… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
It seems the height of antiquated hubris to claim that the universe carried on as it did for billions of years in… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“I wish I was Dumbo the Octopus. Adapted to freezing deep-ocean temperatures, I’d flop around down there at peace. The big concerns… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it. — Dexter Gordon Copy Share Image
