Kraken Quotes

• The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dinner, Sushi, Vengeance

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• Leviathan is not the biggest fish; — I have heard of Krakens.

  Herman Melville

  Leviathan, Fishes, Heard

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.213, Northwestern University Press

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• Any moment called NOW is always full of possibles.

  China Mieville

  Moments

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• When it comes to religion, we're not two sides of the same coin, and you don't get to put your unreason up on the same shelf with my reason. Your stuff has to go over there, on the shelf with Zeus and Thor and the Kraken, with the stuff that is not evidence-based, stuff that religious people never change their mind about, no matter what happens.

  Bill Maher

  Religious, Two Sides, People

  "Real Time With Bill Maher", February 03, 2012.

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• Subby Subby Subby," whispered Goss. "Keep those little bells on your slippers as quiet as you can. Sparklehorse and Starpink have managed to creep out of Apple Palace past all the monkeyfish, but if we're silent as tiny goblins we can surprise them and then all frolic off together in the Meadow of Happy Kites.

  China Mieville

  Past, Apples, Together

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• When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken - you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years.

  Tom Hanks

  Teacher, Growing Up, War

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• In New Zealand we had this colossal squid, which was discovered just off the shores of New Zealand, between New Zealand and Antarctica back in 2003. It's the biggest squid ever found, and I know that there's things living down in the depths of the ocean that do explain the Kraken - you know, these giant things that people saw back in the day, that could take ships down - and so I know that there's stuff out there, and I like the idea that we haven't solved everything yet.

  Rhys Darby

  Ocean, Ideas, Squids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Juno MacGuff: Wise move. I know this girl who had a huge crazy freakout because she took too many behavioral meds at once. She took off all her clothes and jumped into the fountain at Ridgedale Mall and she was like, "Blaaaaah! I'm a kraken from the sea!" Su-Chin: That was you.

  Diablo Cody

  Girl, Wise, Crazy

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• Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.

  China Mieville

  Book, Thinking, Discipline

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. July 15, 2010.

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