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Exaggeration is the octopus of the English language
— Matthew Pearl
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
And a whimsical ceramic sugar bowl shaped like an octopus.
— Christa Faust
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
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
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
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
![Octopus's Quotes By Roland Barthes: [T]he most repugnant bastard there is: the bastard-octopus.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/octopuss-quotes-by-roland-barthes-1922064.jpg "Octopus's Quotes By Roland Barthes: [T]he most repugnant bastard there is: the bastard-octopus.")
[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
Dressing a baby is like putting an octopus into a string bag, making sure none of the arms hang out.
— Chris Evans
The sunshines 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
