Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cassandra Clare

He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.

Charles Fort

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

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.

Gail Carriger

No one ever explained the octopuses.

Norton Juster

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates

Mike Rowe

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

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)

Joseph Mitchell

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.

Matthew Engel

Derek Randall bats like an octopus with piles

David Allen

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.

Tom Renney

We stuck with it. Definitely, we had to compete.

Shirley Manson

There's nothing I've done that I feel a lot of regret over because I stuck to my guns, even when it got uncomfortable - and it will get uncomfortable because you're going up against the wall.

Phil Garner

No, ... He snow-coned it. Stuck to the top of his glove.

Alan Lightman

Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

Dave Eggers

I'll always be working on five things at once, usually with those documents open at the same time because if I get stuck somewhere I'll jump over to something else. That's how my head has always worked.

Anthony Nelson

First half, it was back and forth. They are a tough team, but we stuck in there.

Mike McCabe

There have been spotty things here and there. It's a surprise that we stuck it all together.

Leon Johnson

Our spinners bowled well as they stuck to the task and bowled well to their fields.