Boards Quote by Wilfred Grenfell

When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of…

— Ben Lerner

“I pick up a pen and start to unscrew the whole thing, pull out the skinny little tube of blue ink. It would be…

— Jodi Picoult

“The bliss of stroking an octopus’s head is difficult to convey to most people, even to animal lovers.”

— Sy Montgomery

“In the cab going downtown, Doug believed he now understood the sensations felt by a person slowly sinking into the grasp of an octopus.…

— Donald E. Westlake

“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

“The affection the aquarists felt for the octopus appeared to be mutual. For the hours that they swam together, though the massive octopus could…

— Sy Montgomery

Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Everything is octopusied.”

— Wendy Williams

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…

— Frans de Waal

I don't like to eat octopus. They're so smart.

— Patti Harrison

“the winged octopus”

— Kenyatta García

That particular octopus committed suicide, didn't he? He stabbed himself with his own beak.

— Richard Madeley