Octopus Quotes
40 quotes by 37 authors
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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, backwards,…
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer,…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation.…
— John Francis Hylan
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Sometimes I pretend to be an octopus.  But then people are like ‘Darren what’re you doing?’ And I just sit there and laugh because…
— Darren Criss
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Those who believe in this type of thing [Paul the Octopus, who ‘predicted’ the result of World Cup matches] cannot be the leaders of the…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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It's better to be an octopus than a fish. If an octopus loses a tentacle to a predator, the octopus will survive with seven tentacles…
— Gene Simmons
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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
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I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a form of communication…
— Terence McKenna
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Beware as you get the octopus on board. Suddenly he relaxes his grasp, and shhots out a jet of ink, which smarts considerably.
— Wilfred Grenfell
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But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than…
— Marcel Proust
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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb.…
— Cat Cora
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The real menace of our Republic is the invisible Government which like a giant Octopus, sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states, and nation.
— John Francis Hylan
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Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors.
— Raf Simons
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The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms,…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.
— China Mieville
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On 'Chopped,' the time goes down a bit and there are several ingredients, usually one that makes no sense whatsoever with the rest of the…
— Michael Symon
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We grew to our present size almost against ourselves. It was not a deliberately planned commercial venture in the sense that I sat down and…
— Walt Disney
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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 distributed…
— Frans de Waal
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At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time your…
— Mark Haddon
Who Wrote These Octopus Quotes
37 authors contributed a total of 40 Octopus Quotes, led by these top contributors: