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Octopus Quotes

Norton Juster quote: "Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a..."
Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub? Norton Juster
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
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. Mark Haddon
I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink... William S. Burroughs
Drew Barrymore quote: "Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10..."
Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time! Drew Barrymore
In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where's his basis for comparing? Thomas Pynchon
I watched the enormity of the clouds for several minutes. What I wanted to experience in the water, I realized, was how life of the reef was layered and intertwined. I now had many individual pieces at hand: named images, nouns. How were they related? What were the verbs? Which syntaxes were indigenous to the place? I asked a dozen knowledgeable people. No one was inclined to elaborate- or they didn’t know. “Did you see the octopus?” Someone shouted after the dive. Yes, I thought, but who... Barry Lopez
John Steinbeck quote: "When Mary is confused or perplexed, she spurts anger the way..."
When Mary is confused or perplexed, she spurts anger the way an octopus spurts ink, and hides in the dark cloud of it. John Steinbeck
The Thing cannot be described - there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order. A mountain walked or stumbled. If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings; but it was the general... H. P. Lovecraft
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
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
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
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. Cat Cora
Dodie Smith quote: "The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never..."
The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to. Dodie Smith
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.

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