Quotes by Octopus There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor. Agnes Repplier octopuslettersyears When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of perception beyond his individual body. Ben Lerner octopusordermean Rock music sounds like an octopus making love to a bagpipe. Brother Dave Gardner octopusrocksmaking-love He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus. Cassandra Clare octopushairblue Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts. Charles Fort stumpsoctopusway 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 comradecapitalistoctopus Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings. China Mieville octopusmonsterstwo Dressing a baby is like putting an octopus into a string bag, making sure none of the arms hang out. Chris Evans octopuscutebaby Despite a primitive brain, the octopus possesses an intricate system that helps it decide which tentacle to masturbate with. Dana Gould octopusbrainhelping 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 they’re not cool enough to be an octopus and I’m just like ‘Hah you’re just jealous because you’re not an octopus.’ Darren Criss octopusjealouspeople Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time! Drew Barrymore octopuskissingcute Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you, squeezing not hard enough to kill you, but enough to keep you from reeling until you try to get away. Try, and you hunger for it grasping clutch, the way its tendrils prop you up, your need intensifying exponentially every minute you refuse to admit its being (p.469) Ellen Hopkins octopusmonsterstrying I was in the Far East and I went into a restaurant and I ordered octopus and the waiter said: "It takes four hours." I asked why and he said: "It keeps turning off the gas." Frank Carson octopushumorfunny 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 nervous system. That is why a severed octopus arm may crawl on its own and even pick up food. Frans de Waal neuronsoctopusbrain No one ever explained the octopuses. Gail Carriger octopus 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 left for itself. Gene Simmons predatoroctopusinspirational the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday. Gladys Taber octopusyesterdaypast 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, or sideways. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. octopusfunny-inspirationaldiscipline Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates H. Jackson Brown, Jr. roller-skatingoctopusdiscipline Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. Isabel Paterson octopuseducationalpolitical12»
