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The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever 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.
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. -- Frans de Waal
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub? -- Norton Juster
...I got to try the bagpipes. It was like trying to blow an octopus. -- James Galway
I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me. -- N. Scott Momaday
There's really not a difference between an octopus and, like, a giant pile of snot. -- Mike Rowe
Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time! -- Drew Barrymore
Despite a primitive brain, the octopus possesses an intricate system that helps it decide which tentacle to masturbate with. -- Dana Gould
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 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
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. -- John Francis Hylan
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
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... -- Sarah Bernhardt
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
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
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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
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
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. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
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. -- Nancy Mitford
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. -- Walt Disney
I was bitten by an octopus. -- Ted Cruz
Derek Randall bats like an octopus with piles -- Matthew Engel
Rock music sounds like an octopus making love to a bagpipe. -- Brother Dave Gardner
Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors. -- Raf Simons
The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to. -- Dodie Smith
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
For dinner I want real sushi - not the Americanized kind. My parents are American Samoan so I don't go for any of those rolls. I'll have raw prawn or sea urchin or octopus. I love it. -- Junior Seau
I got hit with an octopus in Detroit one time. It was the most gross thing I've ever had happen. I got it right in the back of the neck; all the juice was coming down. It was awful. -- Pat Burns
They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. -- Luigi Barzini
I've traveled all over. I've been to all 50 states. With my dad in the Navy, I lived in the Philippines from nine to 12, and I had dog, monkey, lizard, everything. Then I was in Hawaii, and I'm spear-fishing, catching octopus with my hands. -- Graham Elliot
The first time I had a baked potato, I was eight years old at a friend's house. Most white kids growing up have a baked potato every day. I didn't even know what to do with it, how to open it. I was the only white kid in high school eating octopus. -- Scott Fujita
With the exception of octopus, I don't think I've met any food that I didn't like. And by the way, sometimes I do like octopus. I'm just not crazy about it by itself. I love sea urchin. I love uni. If I'm going to die of anything, it's going to be gluttony. -- Justin Timberlake
I knew more about produce from the sea than any of my schoolmates, and my reports in school, from kindergarten on, amused and shocked my classmates and teachers. I told them how we ate with chopsticks, had rice and seaweed for breakfast, raw fish, octopus, and sea urchin eggs for supper, and cakes made from sharks. -- Eugenie Clark
If you're going to make a lot of films about a particular group of animals, you might as well pick one that's fairly common. And octopus are: they live in all the oceans. They also live deep. And I can't say octopus are responsible for my really strong interest in getting in subs and going deep, but whatever the case, I like that. -- Mike deGruy
the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday. -- Gladys Taber
That particular octopus committed suicide, didn't he? He stabbed himself with his own beak. -- Richard Madeley
He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus. -- Cassandra Clare
The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus. -- Rebecca West
Dressing a baby is like putting an octopus into a string bag, making sure none of the arms hang out. -- Chris Evans
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
Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock . Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue. -- Theognis of Megara
My daughter takes pride in showing up with stuff that other kids envy or are freaked out by, so I send her to school with grilled octopus. -- Anthony Bourdain
...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
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. -- Gene Simmons
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. -- Ben Lerner
At restaurants, I carry paper and markers and tell everyone to draw a picture with a unicorn, an octopus and an explosion. That keeps them [kids] still for a minute. -- Julie Bowen
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. -- Agnes Repplier

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