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  • 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.

    Years   Octopus   Letters  
    Agnes Repplier (1908). “A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays”
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Le Cote de Guermantes (The GuermantesWay) pt. 1 (1921) (translation by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin)
  • the test of a cook is how she boils an egg. My boiled eggs are fantastic, fabulous. Sometimes as hard as a 100 carat diamond, or again soft as a feather bed, or running like a cooling stream, they can also burst like fireworks from their shells and take on the look and rubbery texture of a baby octopus. Never a dull egg, with me.

    Running   Baby   Food  
  • He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.

    Hair   Blue   Octopus  
  • The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

    Funny   Family   Heart  
    Dear Octopus (1938) p. 120
  • That particular octopus committed suicide, didn't he? He stabbed himself with his own beak.

    Suicide   Octopus   Beaks  
  • I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a form of communication that is both psychedelic and telepathic; a model for the human communications of the future. In the not-too-distant future men and women may shed the monkey body to become virtual octopi swimming in a silicon sea.

    Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Octopus   Brain   Neurons  
    "The Brains of the Animal Kingdom". www.wsj.com. March 22, 2013.
  • 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.

    Business   Octopus   Size  
  • 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.

    Letter to his aunt Beatriz in 1953. "Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life" by Jon Lee Anderson, 1997.
  • The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.

    Fighting   Octopus   Mind  
    Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.839, Open Road Media
  • The real menace of our Republic is the invisible Government which like a giant Octopus, sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states, and nation.

    "David Rockefeller's Chilling 1991 Speech at a Bilderberg Meeting" by Kalee Brown, www.lewrockwell.com. March 24, 2017.
  • Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.

    Octopus   Way   Stumps  
    Charles Fort (2006). “Wild Talents”, p.279, Cosimo, Inc.
  • 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."

    Funny   Humor   Octopus  
  • 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.

    Believe   Iran   Octopus  
  • 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.

    Mean   Order   Octopus  
    "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.
  • Despite a primitive brain, the octopus possesses an intricate system that helps it decide which tentacle to masturbate with.

    Octopus   Brain   Helping  
  • Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!

    Cute   Kissing   Octopus  
  • There's really not a difference between an octopus and, like, a giant pile of snot.

  • 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

    Cute   Octopus   Drug  
  • 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.

  • Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors.

    Fashion   Team   Octopus  
  • Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest... Lots of nuts, vegetables, fruits, fresh fish, lean meats, yogurt.

  • Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

    Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.115, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time your mind was somewhere else. By the time you got to seventy, it was probably like watching snooker on the telly.

  • 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 (2010). “An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas”, p.206, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Beware as you get the octopus on board. Suddenly he relaxes his grasp, and shhots out a jet of ink, which smarts considerably.

    Smart   Octopus   Relax  
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