“Once one seizes happiness, one should hang onto it like an octopus.” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub? — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
The real menace of our Republic is the invisible Government which like a giant Octopus, sprawls its slimy legs over our cities,… — John Francis Hylan Copy Share Image
Dressing a baby is like putting an octopus into a string bag, making sure none of the arms hang out. — Chris Evans Copy Share Image
My daughter takes pride in showing up with stuff that other kids envy or are freaked out by, so I send her… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where's his basis… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
The most repulsive thing you could ever imagine is the inside of a camel's mouth. That and watching a girl eat octopus… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors. — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
“I am an octopus on four wheels. What are my four free arms for? To better love you, of course.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“An octopus has eight legs. You know what else has eight legs? My bed last night. Oh, I didn’t have a foursome,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind,… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I was in the Far East and I went into a restaurant and I ordered octopus and the waiter said: "It takes… — Frank Carson Copy Share Image
I got hit with an octopus in Detroit one time. It was the most gross thing I've ever had happen. I got… — Pat Burns Copy Share Image
Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for… — Frans de Waal 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
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
“Octopuses and their relatives have what Woods Hole researcher Roger Hanlon calls electric skin. For its color palette, the octopus uses three… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
the test of a cook is how she boils an egg. My boiled eggs are fantastic, fabulous. Sometimes as hard as a… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
We grew to our present size almost against ourselves. It was not a deliberately planned commercial venture in the sense that I… — Walt Disney 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
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
“an octopus may have half a billion nerve cells distributed between its brain and its “arms” (a mouse, by comparison, has only… — Oliver Sacks 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
“The hatchlings of most deep-sea octopus species develop directly, without passing through a larval stage.” — Richard Ellis Copy Share Image
He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Beware as you get the octopus on board. Suddenly he relaxes his grasp, and shhots out a jet of ink, which smarts… — Wilfred Grenfell Copy Share Image
It's better to be an octopus than a fish. If an octopus loses a tentacle to a predator, the octopus will survive… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
There's really not a difference between an octopus and, like, a giant pile of snot. — Mike Rowe Copy Share Image
The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“And since October is coming to an end, what better time to draw Octo-Bear, the bear that is an octopus!” — Dan Bergstein Copy Share Image
Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock . Now follow in this direction,… — Theognis of Megara Copy Share Image
