Animal Quote by Jules Verne

“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

“Returning from a hunting trip, Orde-Lees, traveling on skis across the rotting surface of the ice, had just about reached camp when an evil,…

— Alfred Lansing

“an octopus may have half a billion nerve cells distributed between its brain and its “arms” (a mouse, by comparison, has only 75 to…

— Oliver Sacks

Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?

— Frank Bruni

“This curious little animal was of a soft, dark brown color, the fur being of a lighter shade under the body; its feet were…

— Johann David Wyss

My favorite wild animal is a narwhal - the unicorn of the sea. It's a whale with a tooth that sticks out of its…

— Kesha

“This commissary was a man of very repulsive mien, with a pointed nose, with yellow and salient cheek bones, with eyes small but keen…

— Alexandre Dumas

“Analogies fail, but I am capable of behaving like an eight-armed cephalopod while protesting the innocence of my two hands on the table.”

— Jeanette Winterson

I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to…

— Megan Whalen Turner

“Hanging upside down above them was a fat, frog-faced creature. Its head and feet were amphibious, with slimy, bumpy skin and a puffed, bulbous…

— Michael Buckley

There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm, nor impassable roads, nor rocks, glaciers,…

— Jules Verne