Quotes about octopus
octopus gossip arms
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
octopus our-words body
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
octopus differences giants
There's really not a difference between an octopus and, like, a giant pile of snot. Mike Rowe
octopus trying ordinary
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) Ellen Hopkins
octopus lobster west-coast
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
octopus
No one ever explained the octopuses. Gail Carriger
octopus bats
Derek Randall bats like an octopus with piles Matthew Engel
octopus discipline roller-skating
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates H. Jackson Brown, Jr.