Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Charles Fort

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

Mike Rowe

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

Matthew Engel

Derek Randall bats like an octopus with piles

Michael Symon

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.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates

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.

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.

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)

Carlos Castaneda

Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words.

Jane Fonda

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Billy Graham

The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.

Desmond Tutu

Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word.

Hannah More

If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.

Plautus

We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor. [Lat., In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium, operam ludimus.]

Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words.

J. K. Rowling

Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.

Joel Osteen

Our words set the direction for our lives.

David Snyder

We have to grow our dealer body - we are going to need a significant number of dealers to sell our product. We have to really improve what they call the consideration funnel, where customers actually will consider Ford.

Matt McGorry

When you're used to being at a point where you're deadlifting close to 600 pounds, getting to be 5.5 percent body fat and seeing veins in places you shouldn't see them, it kind of skews your understanding of what is normal and OK.

John McDonald

When you're told to go home and sit in a chair, your body doesn't get the feedback that comes from physical activity.

Steve Alford

When he got healthy as an individual, it obviously helped this team. He got his own body back. He could move defensively.

Agnes de Mille

Dance in the body you have.

Agnes Varda

Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It's just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.

Charles de Lint

A body of work may be reviled -- mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings -- and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.

Charles Dickens

A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!

Queen Latifah

When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.