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Quotes About Tentacles

When it comes to the battle of the molluscs, cephalopods win tentacles down.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
The squiggly rubber Davy Jones face in 'Pirates' with the tentacles, barnacles and goobers - that's modeled on me.
~ Stephen Hunter
Casa aceasta era aproape moart?. Interiorul ei era pe jum?tate mîncat de tentaculele nisipului care curgea neîncetat, nisip care nici m?car nu avea o form? proprie - alta decît diametrul mediu de 1/8 mm. Åži totuÅŸi nimic nu-i putea sta împotriv? acestei forÅ£e distructive, lipsite de form?. Åži poate c? manifestarea cea mai înalt? a forÅ£ei nisipului era c? n-avea form?.
~ K?b? Abe
for the first time a writer grappled, for example, with the question of how to deal with a multinational whose tentacles extended well beyond
~ William Dalrymple
The IRGC's tentacles are well hidden in the Iranian economy, making the risk of becoming entangled with the organization an impossible-to-quantify possibility.
~ Mike Pompeo
We follow Daja to a Hellion motor home. It looks less like something your grandparents would drive to the Grand Canyon and more like a Gothic mansion on wheels—one designed by insects and decorated by something with more tentacles than taste. Hellion chic. Daja opens the door and we go in.
~ Richard Kadrey
A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.
~ Jeffrey Kluger
Maybe the most amazing thing is how nice the fish smells. Not pongy at all: it's like seawater, salty and clean and fresh. "It's not exactly Birds Eye fish fingers, is it?" Kelly says, jolted out of her silence by the sight of a whole crate of squid, white and violet with purple tentacles, arranged in overlapping rows. "This is gross! But kind of interesting," Paige comments, which is actually quite positive for Paige looking at a lot of raw fish.
~ Lauren Henderson
The family-that dear octopus from whese tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
~ Dodie Smith
Most Krakau massed less than the average human. They were roughly tube-shaped, with nine tentacles—arms—limbs?
~ Jim C. Hines
The tentacles of Islamic State are far-reaching, and the restrained and tepid international response that Mr. Obama has pursued will not eliminate this terrorist organization.
~ Mercedes Schlapp
Mave started screaming again, pointing to the ceiling as Bob drifted down and began running his tentacles all over the stump. "Holy crap," Hank said. "It's okay!" Wee'git said. "It's just a transdimensional being that's gotten stuck in the liminal space between our universe and his. Hers. Theirs. I'm not really an expert on octopus genders.
~ Eden Robinson
whole monstrosity growing more huge and throwing out new and more awful tentacles every day.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
There it sat under my skull with my mind gripped in its tentacles. Sometimes dormant. Sometimes awakening and squeezing. Again I would react
~ Francine Prose
He was like some kind of Star Wars alien creature with invisible tentacles that sucked your thoughts out of your brain.
~ Sherman Alexie
I'm aware that because America is so powerful - with its tentacles reaching out to the world - one doesn't escape it by leaving. This is the most dangerous and disturbing time in my life.
~ Randall Robinson
Then, oh shit, nanotech tentacles.
~ Elizabeth Bear
A fisherman, who had just speared an octopus with his trident, was skinning it as its tentacles rolled around his tattooed arm.
~ Georges Simenon
All of them have tentacles, like their mother! The youngest one in curls!" Diehl laughed. Cruz laughed. I laughed.
~ Ernest Cline
Once the tentacles of redistributionism wrap themselves tightly around every part of the economy - and around our psyches - they can never be unwound.
~ Monica Crowley
La mia sbrigliata immaginazione credette di vedere, allo stesso tempo, una piovra, un drago e una caricatura umana. Aveva una testa rotonda, irta di tentacoli e posta su di un corpo grottesco e squamoso, da cui spuntavano due ali rudimentali: e c'era qualcosa, in quell'insieme, che rendeva la figura quanto mai spaventosa e ripugnante.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.
~ Jeffrey Kluger
If the sailor in his sling were to turn and look down on her, he'd know she was a whore by the tentacles.
~ Stepan Chapman
Even though the sewer pipelines reach far into our houses with their tentacles, they are carefully hidden from view and we are happily ignorant of the invisible Venice of shit underlying our bathrooms, bedrooms, dance halls, and parliaments.
~ Milan Kundera