Top Octopus Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Octopus quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of 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.
- Sarah Bernhardt
Collection: Octopus
Image of Matthew Engel
Derek Randall bats like an octopus with piles
- Matthew Engel
Collection: Octopus
Image of Charles Fort
Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.
- Charles Fort
Collection: Octopus
Image of Norton Juster
Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
- Norton Juster
Collection: Octopus
Image of 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)
- Ellen Hopkins
Collection: Octopus
Image of Gail Carriger
No one ever explained the octopuses.
- Gail Carriger
Collection: Octopus
Image of 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.
- Marcel Proust
Collection: Octopus
Image of James Patterson
If my life were a corny horror movie, and the heroine was lost and alone, trapped in an underwater cave, what would happen next? If you guessed, “She drops her flashlight, and it hits a rock and breaks, leaving her in utter darkness,” you would be right. But I bet you didn’t guess the part about an attack by a giant octopus.
- James Patterson
Collection: Octopus
Image of H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Octopus
Image of Dana Gould
Despite a primitive brain, the octopus possesses an intricate system that helps it decide which tentacle to masturbate with.
- Dana Gould
Collection: Octopus
Image of Che Guevara
I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.
- Che Guevara
Collection: Octopus