Quote by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

I'm absolutely an amoeba. It's my survival value.

— Van Heflin

Amoeba has her picture in the book, Proud Protozoon!-Yet beware of pride, All she can do is fatten and divide; She cannot even read,…

— Julian Huxley

We're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're the amoebas.

— Danny Hillis

The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body,…

— Nicole Brossard

“A giant octopus living way down deep at the bottom of the ocean. It has this tremendously powerful life force, a bunch of long,…

— Haruki Murakami

“The defining characteristic of the organism is striving.”

— Paul Kalanithi

“Why, you boggle-eyed, flap-tongued, drag-bellied offspring of unmentionable algae! You seething little leprous blotch of bat-nibbled fungus! You cringing parasite on the underside of…

— Lewis Padgett

“I am a great soft jelly thing. Smoothly rounded, with no mouth, with pulsing white holes filled by fog where my eyes used to…

— Harlan Ellison

“We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its…

— Anonymous

“this creature moved on all fours. Long, pointed ears lay flat against the monster's head. The long, tapered snout was wrinkled into a snarl,…

— Graeme Reynolds

“An ant can't define shape of an elephant solely from its' point of view. They have to unify all views. It's a way for…

— Toba Beta

“A creature--a frightfully, awful creature--was mere feet from her. Its eyes were enormous, the size of goose eggs and milky white. Its gray, slippery…

— M.L. LeGette