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“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.”

Hate Ignorance Bears And Love Prejudice Clouds Burden Conquer Sincerity Thick Threatened Hostile Ink Octopus

Book:Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

Source: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

“I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.”

Ifs Dream Night Dark Wonder Sea Dark Night Octopus

Author:N. Scott Momaday

“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.”

Ifs Knows Talent Movement Discipline Plenty Self Discipline Backwards Funny Inspirational Skates Sideways Octopus Daily Discipline

Author:H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

Heard Covered Bathtubs Octopus Blindfolded Phantom Tollbooth

Book:The phantom tollbooth

Source: The phantom tollbooth

“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.”

Ifs Happens Would Be Next Lost Break Darkness Rocks Horror Leaving Giants Trapped Caves Corny Heroines Underwater Flashlights Octopus

Author:James Patterson

“Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you, squeezing not hard enough to kill you, but enough to keep you from reeling until you try to get away. Try, and you hunger for it grasping clutch, the way its tendrils prop you up, your need intensifying exponentially every minute you refuse to admit its being (p.469)”

Way Needs Trying Hard Enough Minutes Ordinary Hunger Refuse Monsters Giants Get Away Props Grasping Clutch Weaving Crank Squeezing Octopus Tentacles

Book:Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy

Source: Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy

“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”

Way Problem Drug Cute No Problem Bugs Spiders Octopus

Author:Mira Grant

“No one ever explained the octopuses.”

Octopus

Author:Gail Carriger

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

“Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure.”

May Spirit House Dark Sea Ready Horror Ocean Silent Curse Floating Caves Floats Lurking Swimmer Dens Octopus

Book:The Lost World and Other Stories

Source: The Lost World and Other Stories

“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. At the head is a small group of banking houses... This little coterie...runs our government for their own selfish ends. It operates under cover of a self-created screen...seizes...our executive officers...legislative bodies...schools... courts...newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.”

“Sometimes I pretend to be an octopus. But then people are like ‘Darren what’re you doing?’ And I just sit there and laugh because they’re not cool enough to be an octopus and I’m just like ‘Hah you’re just jealous because you’re not an octopus.’”

People Sometimes Enough Laughing Jealous Octopus Darren

Author:Darren Criss

“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.”

World Believe Humans Values Nations Results Leader Type Perfection Sacred Cups Iran Aspire World Cup Octopus President Of Iran

Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“It's better to be an octopus than a fish. If an octopus loses a tentacle to a predator, the octopus will survive with seven tentacles left for itself.”

Ifs Inspirational Left Loses Seven Fishes Predator Octopus Tentacles

Author:Gene Simmons

“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.”

Capitalist Comrade Octopus

Author:Che Guevara

“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.”

Men Believe Humans May Body Form I Believe Sea Communication Models Men And Women Swimming Shed Monkeys Psychedelic Silicon Octopus Squids

Book:True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival

Source: True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival

“Beware as you get the octopus on board. Suddenly he relaxes his grasp, and shhots out a jet of ink, which smarts considerably.”

Smart Fishes Boards Relax Ink Jet Octopus

Author:Wilfred Grenfell

“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.”

Should Body Asks Sound Fronts Pity Tides Our Words Octopus

Author:Marcel Proust

“Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates”

Talent Discipline Self Discipline Backwards Skates Sideways Octopus Daily Discipline Roller Skating

Author:H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“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.”

Thinking Littles Right Now Eating Sitting Fruit Fishes Fantastic Greek Meat Diets Islands Nuts Vegetables Lambs Salad Yogurt Octopus Sipping Mediterranean Sea Fresh Fish Greek Yogurt

Author:Cat Cora

“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.”

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

People Team Fashion Marketing Patterns Productions Connected Makers Octopus Suppliers Vendors

Author:Raf Simons

“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.”

Littles Left Behinds Fronts Arms Thousand Praise Monsters Gossip Slander Sucker Advertisements Octopus Tentacles

Author:Sarah Bernhardt

“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.”

Littles Bits Comfort Little Bit Zone Culinary Ingredients Cheese Comfort Zone Octopus

Author:Michael Symon

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