Octopus Quotes by Marcel Proust

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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… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to… — Arthur Conan Doyle
• 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
• 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
• Those who believe in this type of thing [Paul the Octopus, who ‘predicted’ the result of World Cup matches] cannot be the… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
• 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
• 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
• I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a… — Terence McKenna
• Beware as you get the octopus on board. Suddenly he relaxes his grasp, and shhots out a jet of ink, which smarts… — Wilfred Grenfell
• But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no… — Marcel Proust
• Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and… — Cat Cora

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