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Octopus Quotes & Sayings

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Joke:
What was the octopus's favorite game at the beach BBQ?
Tidal Pool Twister — Heather Wolf

Exaggeration is the octopus of the English language — Matthew Pearl

Talking to that fool is like trying to put socks on an octopus! — James Agee

He is a messenger from Slothrop's innocent, pre-octopus past. — Thomas Pynchon

It's like trying to fit an octopus into a pair of tuxedo pants. And not a plain octopus at that, but an octopus that doesn't even exist. — Arkady Strugatsky

Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time! — Drew Barrymore

I got to try the bagpipes. It was like trying to blow an octopus. — James Galway

And a whimsical ceramic sugar bowl shaped like an octopus. — Christa Faust

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

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

We watch the chef slice eel and octopus, delicate operations of dismemberment and amputation. For some reason it makes me think of poetry. — Jessica Martinez

If the plural of "octopus" is "octopi" then why isn't the plural of "rabbit" "rabbi"? Is it just because "octopuses" is too much fun to say? * — Jenny Lawson

opponent was half pillbug, half octopus, and all butt ugly. I closed — Richard Roberts

The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus. — Rebecca West

Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts. — Charles Fort

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. — Dodie Smith

If guilt was an animal then it would be an octopus. All slimy and wriggly with hundreds of arms that wrap around your insides and squeeze them tight. — Annabel Pitcher

An octopus has three hearts — Muhammad Rayhan

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

If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, — H.P. Lovecraft

I didn't have a lot of fighting experience, but I would punch an octopus if I had to, to save a life. — Abigail Barnette

Once one seizes happiness, one should hang onto it like an octopus. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

How many color patterns can your severed arm produce in one second? — Wendy Williams

The fact that three-fifths of an octopus' neurons are not in their brain, but in their arms, suggests that each arm has a mind of its own. — Sy Montgomery

The multitude was a frothing octopus, pulsating anthropomorphically over the church steps. — Ondjaki

And don't get me started on your hands roaming everywhere. You're like an octopus. Honestly, I feel violated. — A&E Kirk

But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, she would drop in that accusation. — Ford Madox Ford

[T]he most repugnant bastard there is: the bastard-octopus. — Roland Barthes

She exuded sexuality almost tangible, like ink obscuring the waters around the octopus before it strikes. — Travis Luedke

I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me. — N. Scott Momaday

We split from our common ancestor with the octopus half a billion years ago. And yet, you can make friends with an octopus. — Sy Montgomery

And since October is coming to an end, what better time to draw Octo-Bear, the bear that is an octopus! — Dan Bergstein

Rock music sounds like an octopus making love to a bagpipe. — Brother Dave Gardner

When an octopus farts, it can't hide it. — Gemma Elwin Harris

He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus. — Cassandra Clare

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

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

Soun Tendo: Drowned Octopus Spring?
Guide from Jusenkyo: Is tragic tale of giant octopus who drown 1600 year ago ... somehow. — Rumiko Takahashi

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

I was bitten by an octopus. — Ted Cruz

Everything is octopusied. — Wendy Williams

Antonio Sanchez is from Mexico City. I met him at a Pat Metheny concert. He did a solo, and I thought, 'This is an octopus man!' — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Today's woman must be a prostitute in the kitchen, a ghost in the bedroom, a sniper on the parapet, an octopus at sea world. — Rob Thompson

Teaching without talent, compassion and endurance is like an octopus on skates - there will be movement without direction. — Kavita Bhupta Ghosh

Yes, and this is mine. (Baldrick produces a single scruffy piece of paper.)
My magnificent octopus. — Richard Curtis

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

Despite a primitive brain, the octopus possesses an intricate system that helps it decide which tentacle to masturbate with. — Dana Gould

Dressing a baby is like putting an octopus into a string bag, making sure none of the arms hang out. — Chris Evans

The tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday. — Gladys Taber

I smile to myself. I have a secret: I wish I was Dumbo the Octopus. — Ned Vizzini

The sun
shines in a bucket of water
and doesn't
get wet. — Brian Taylor

Derek Randall bats like an octopus with piles — Matthew Engel

Mischief and craft are plainly seen to be characteristics of this creature. - Claudius Aelianus, third century A.D., writing about the octopus — Peter Godfrey-Smith

Friends come and go like the waves of the ocean but the true ones stay, like an octopus on your face — Anonymous

Perhaps the highlight was Natalie on top of the table, doing some kind of dance that made her look like an octopus. — Kiera Cass

There's really not a difference between an octopus and, like, a giant pile of snot. — Mike Rowe

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub? — Norton Juster