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

  Mike Rowe

  Differences, Giants

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• 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

  Capitalist, Comrade

  Letter to his aunt Beatriz in 1953. "Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life" by Jon Lee Anderson, 1997.

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• Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Ocean, Dark, Sea

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1995). “The Lost World and Other Stories”, p.324, Wordsworth Editions

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• The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation. At the head is a small group of banking houses... This little coterie...runs our government for their own selfish ends. It operates under cover of a self-created screen...seizes...our executive officers...legislative bodies...schools... courts...newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.

  John Francis Hylan

  Running, Selfish, Real

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• When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of perception beyond his individual body.

  Ben Lerner

  Mean, Order, Perception

  "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.

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• Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest... Lots of nuts, vegetables, fruits, fresh fish, lean meats, yogurt.

  Cat Cora

  Thinking, Islands, Vegetables

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• 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

  Lobster, West Coast, Youth

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• Despite a primitive brain, the octopus possesses an intricate system that helps it decide which tentacle to masturbate with.

  Dana Gould

  Brain, Helping, Tentacles

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• 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

  Trying, Monsters, Ordinary

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

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• Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

  Isabel Paterson

  Educational, Political, Mind

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.258, Transaction Publishers

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• 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

  Rocks, Darkness, Leaving

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• Derek Randall bats like an octopus with piles

  Matthew Engel

  Bats

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• Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock . Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue.

  Theognis of Megara

  Character, Rocks, Different

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• 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

  Gossip, Monsters, Arms

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• We grew to our present size almost against ourselves. It was not a deliberately planned commercial venture in the sense that I sat down and said that we were going to make ourselves into a huge financial octopus. We evolved by necessity. We did not sit down and say to ourselves, 'How can we make a big pile of dough?' It just happened.

  Walt Disney

  Business, Size, Down And

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• My daughter takes pride in showing up with stuff that other kids envy or are freaked out by, so I send her to school with grilled octopus.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Daughter, School, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.

  Charles Fort

  Way, Stumps, Tentacles

  Charles Fort (2006). “Wild Talents”, p.279, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

  Comfort, Littles, Ingredients

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• That particular octopus committed suicide, didn't he? He stabbed himself with his own beak.

  Richard Madeley

  Suicide, Beaks, Committed

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• At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time your mind was somewhere else. By the time you got to seventy, it was probably like watching snooker on the telly.

  Mark Haddon

  Country, Wrestling, Somewhere Else

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• The real menace of our Republic is the invisible Government which like a giant Octopus, sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states, and nation.

  John Francis Hylan

  Real, World Government, Nwo

  "David Rockefeller's Chilling 1991 Speech at a Bilderberg Meeting" by Kalee Brown, www.lewrockwell.com. March 24, 2017.

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• Beware as you get the octopus on board. Suddenly he relaxes his grasp, and shhots out a jet of ink, which smarts considerably.

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Smart, Relax, Ink

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• the test of a cook is how she boils an egg. My boiled eggs are fantastic, fabulous. Sometimes as hard as a 100 carat diamond, or again soft as a feather bed, or running like a cooling stream, they can also burst like fireworks from their shells and take on the look and rubbery texture of a baby octopus. Never a dull egg, with me.

  Nancy Mitford

  Running, Baby, Food

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• At restaurants, I carry paper and markers and tell everyone to draw a picture with a unicorn, an octopus and an explosion. That keeps kids still for a minute.

  Julie Bowen

  Kids, Paper, Unicorn

  "Julie Bowen: Fellow Mom Reese Witherspoon 'Saved My Life'". Interview with Alissa Schulman, www.usmagazine.com. August 9, 2016.

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• Those who believe in this type of thing [Paul the Octopus, who ‘predicted’ the result of World Cup matches] cannot be the leaders of the global nations that aspire, like Iran, to human perfection, basing themselves in the love of all sacred values.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Believe, Iran, Perfection

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