Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Bernhardt

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...

Marcel Proust

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.

Mike Rowe

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

Ellen Hopkins

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)

Joseph Mitchell

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.

Gail Carriger

No one ever explained the octopuses.

Matthew Engel

Derek Randall bats like an octopus with piles

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates

Richard Dawkins

Superficially it's a problem if homosexuality is genetic - if the difference between people's sexual preferences is genetic - because at least a pure homosexual would be unlikely to reproduce and therefore pass on the genes. So the first question you ask is, is it actually genetic, and the answer is probably to some extent yes.

William J. Clinton

Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.

William J. Clinton

Sometimes there is a difference in what is legal and what ought to be done.

William James

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as.

William James

We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.

William James

There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.

William James

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

Virginia Woolf

It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

William Bernbach

The difference between the forgettable and the enduring is artistry.

Ned Colletti

He has not informed the Giants of that decision.

Wilkie Collins

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

James Hansen

Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate change], yet we dither.

James Fallows

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

Cervantes Saavedra

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

Murray Rothbard

Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation.

Mark Buchanan

Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.

Ellen Hopkins

Easier, sometimes, to gulp down giant spoonfuls of uncertainty than it is to swallow throat-clogging capsules of what really is.

Woody Johnson

It is our intention to be partners with the Giants in perpetuity.