Quotes by Octopus ...I got to try the bagpipes. It was like trying to blow an octopus. James Galway octopusblowtrying If my life were a corny horror movie, and the heroine was lost and alone, trapped in an underwater cave, what would happen next? If you guessed, “She drops her flashlight, and it hits a rock and breaks, leaving her in utter darkness,” you would be right. But I bet you didn’t guess the part about an attack by a giant octopus. James Patterson octopusrocksdarkness When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth. Joseph Mitchell west-coastoctopuslobster At restaurants, I carry paper and markers and tell everyone to draw a picture with a unicorn, an octopus and an explosion. That keeps kids still for a minute. Julie Bowen octopuspaperkids Those who believe in this type of thing [Paul the Octopus, who ‘predicted’ the result of World Cup matches] cannot be the leaders of the global nations that aspire, like Iran, to human perfection, basing themselves in the love of all sacred values. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad octopusiranbelieve But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of the tides, and with which we should be appalled to find ourselves condemned to live. Marcel Proust octopusour-wordssound The most repulsive thing you could ever imagine is the inside of a camel's mouth. That and watching a girl eat octopus or squid. Marlon Brando squidsoctopusgirl Derek Randall bats like an octopus with piles Matthew Engel octopusbats On 'Chopped,' the time goes down a bit and there are several ingredients, usually one that makes no sense whatsoever with the rest of the ingredients. So it gets you out of your culinary comfort zone a little bit. Like we had octopus and cheese paired up with each other. Michael Symon octopuscomfortlittles There's really not a difference between an octopus and, like, a giant pile of snot. Mike Rowe octopusgiantsdifferences I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of drugs' sort of way." - Becks Mira Grant octopusdrugcute Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub? Norton Juster phantom-tollboothoctopusheard Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors. Raf Simons octopusfashionteam The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus. Rebecca West octopusfightingmind That particular octopus committed suicide, didn't he? He stabbed himself with his own beak. Richard Madeley beaksoctopussuicide The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat. Sarah Bernhardt octopusgossipmonsters It seems the height of antiquated hubris to claim that the universe carried on as it did for billions of years in order to form a comfortable abode for us. Chance and historical contingency give the world of life most of its glory and fascination. I sit here happy to be alive and sure that some reason must exist for "why me?" Or the earth might have been totally covered with water, and an octopus might now be telling its children why the eight-legged God of all things had made such a perfect world for cephalopods. Stephen Jay Gould octopuseightchildren Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock . Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue. Theognis of Megara octopusrockscharacter We grew to our present size almost against ourselves. It was not a deliberately planned commercial venture in the sense that I sat down and said that we were going to make ourselves into a huge financial octopus. We evolved by necessity. We did not sit down and say to ourselves, 'How can we make a big pile of dough?' It just happened. Walt Disney octopussizebusiness Beware as you get the octopus on board. Suddenly he relaxes his grasp, and shhots out a jet of ink, which smarts considerably. Wilfred Grenfell octopusrelaxsmart«12
