19 Octopus Quotes for You to Enjoy

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to. Dodie Smith

Family Wish Our Never Dear Octopus Nor Escape Hearts Quite Whose Innermost

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.

You Discipline Backwards Sideways Plenty Never Talent Like Know Without Octopus Roller Going Movement Skates Forward

I was bitten by an octopus. Ted Cruz

Bitten Octopus

When I would visit my octopus friend, Octavia, at New England aquarium, usually she would look me in the face, flow right over to see me, and flush red with emotion when she took my arms in hers. Often when I'd stroke her she'd turn white beneath my touch, the colour of a relaxed octopus. Sy Montgomery

Me Face White Beneath Took Hers Flush Relaxed Visit Stroke Would See Touch Emotion Colour Red Over New Look She Arms New England Octopus Friend Often Turn England Her Right Flow

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

School Sharks Made Breakfast Ate Kindergarten About Classmates More Supper Had Raw Knew Cakes How Octopus Fish Shocked Than Eggs Reports Any Rice Them Produce Sea Teachers Chopsticks Seaweed Amused

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

Food Nervous Own Hundreds Severed System Thousands Distributed Nervous System Neurons Pick Arm Making Equipped Octopus Up May Interconnected Crawl Even Each Each One Why Widely

I just submitted what I had to the 'Octopus Books' contest open reading period, and they said they wanted to publish my poetry book. Then I started to publish more and more poetry because people would ask me to do readings or ask me submit something for their journal. Jenny Zhang

Me Book People Reading Submit Publish Books Would Something More More And More Poetry Open Had Journal Period Because Readings Contest Said Octopus Submitted Just Wanted Ask Then Started

As we've often said, to the world at large, Marvel looks like a giant octopus that's out to swallow the galaxy - which, by the way, we are. But we are, in fact, a rather small and intimate company. Jeph Loeb

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

Love Dinner Parents Those Kind Raw Real Octopus Go American Sushi Any Rolls Want Sea Americanized

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

Time You Cheese Rest Sense Down Other Several Bit Out No Sense Had Like Comfort Comfort Zone Makes Culinary Octopus Up Goes Gets Whatsoever Little Little Bit Ingredients Your Chopped Each Zone

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

You Strong Animals Whatever Live Group Films Say Responsible About Case Pick Particular Like Also Well Make Fairly Oceans Octopus Lot Getting Going Common Interest Might Really Deep

Trump is a master obfuscator. Like an octopus escaping a predator, he releases a cloud of ink when called to the carpet on one of his many lies. His strategy? Obfuscate, then reference others. 'Millions agree,' 'everyone knows,' 'many have done it.' Pamela Meyer

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

Time Down Back One Time Detroit Had Most Got Coming Octopus Juice Hit Happen Gross Ever Awful Right Thing Neck

When my kids were in the school play for the first time, I decided I had to make the costumes from scratch and bought material, wadding, dyed T-shirts, and purple tights so I could say I made the octopus costume myself. Sarah Alexander

Time Myself School Made First Say Kids Costume Costumes Purple Could Had Bought School Play Make First Time Material Tights Octopus Were Scratch Dyed Decided Play

If you go to the octopus, and if you're not too squeamish, dissect it. You'll find that it has a camera eye which is remarkable similar to our own. And yet we know that the octopus belongs to an invertebrate group called cephalopod mulluses, evolutionarily very distant indeed from the chordates to which we belong. Simon Conway Morris

The only time I am not talking is when I am dancing. I look like an electrocuted octopus. Sue Perkins

Time Not Talking Dancing Only Only Time Like Look Talking Am Octopus

The fact that three-fifths of an octopus' neurons are not in their brain, but in their arms, suggests that each arm has a mind of its own. Sy Montgomery

Mind Own Fact Neurons Arm Arms Octopus Brain Each

I heard one story about an octopus in a home tank who would get out, cruise around the house, take knick-knacks, and drag them back to its tank. Like a dog! They're so smart that there are octopus enrichment handbooks so you don't bore your octopus. I've seen them play with Legos, Mr. Potato Head, you name it! Sy Montgomery

Home You Dog Smart Seen Back Enrichment Out Would Bore About Potato Take Cruise Head Name Like House Around Octopus Tank Heard Get Story Them Your Who Play Drag

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