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in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members. -- Vladimir Nabokov
the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday. -- Gladys Taber
Despite a primitive brain, the octopus possesses an intricate system that helps it decide which tentacle to masturbate with. -- Dana Gould
The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. -- Dodie Smith
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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
The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people believe. It's possible they are calling the shots at all levels of government. -- William Colby
I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see. -- Dorothy Parker
Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world. -- Mary E. DeMuth
I don't like slugs and tentacles and calamari or anything. Actually, tentacles made me turn into a vegetarian in high school. I'm not anymore, but in high school, we were dissecting squid. -- Selma Blair
I'm aware that because America is so powerful - with its tentacles reaching out to the world - one doesn't escape it by leaving. This is the most dangerous and disturbing time in my life. -- Randall Robinson
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
Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other people's freedom as well. The victory of oppressed people anywhere in the world is a victory for Black people. Each time one of imperialism's tentacles is cut off we are closer to liberation. -- Assata Shakur
But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around-they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late. -- Ransom Riggs
An amoeba is a formless thing which takes many shapes. It moves by thrusting out an arm, and flowing into the arm. It multiplies by pulling itself in two, without permanently diminishing the original. So with words. A meaning may develop on the periphery of the body of meanings associated with a word, and shortly this tentacle-meaning has grown to such proportions that it dwarfs all other meanings. -- Charlton Laird
Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere -- John Major
I simply love Drosera plants! Those tentacles, I love those tentacles...~ Aarush Kashyap -- Kirtida Gautam
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[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
The squiggly rubber Davy Jones face in 'Pirates' with the tentacles, barnacles and goobers - that's modeled on me. -- Stephen Hunter
It's an expansion. And it's a stealth mechanism to put the tentacles of socialized medicine even deeper into society. -- Rush Limbaugh
The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to. -- Dodie Smith
Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts. -- Charles Fort
We've already seen the federal government stretch their regulatory tentacles into our homes and determine what kind of light bulbs we have to use. -- Marsha Blackburn
Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost every aspect of American life. -- Ron Paul
This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception. -- Phyllis Bottome

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