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  • Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.

    Squids   Want   Sucker  
    Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989
  • There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom living; there are the hosts of different invertebrate creatures on the sea-floor; and there are those almost grotesque forms of pelagic life in the oceans depths. Then there are the squids and cuttlefish, and the porpoises, dolphins and great whales.

    Ocean   Whales   Sea  
  • I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a form of communication that is both psychedelic and telepathic; a model for the human communications of the future. In the not-too-distant future men and women may shed the monkey body to become virtual octopi swimming in a silicon sea.

    Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books
  • I am a giant squid of anger.

    Hipster   Squids   Giants  
  • [On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble; crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.

    Party   Squids   Goal  
  • But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.

    Girl   Mean   Boys  
    William Goldman (2001). “The Silent Gondoliers”, Del Rey
  • I'd like to be honest to my time, and I lived from 1946, and I want to understand why our country, which I love so much, and was a great country when I was young, it seemed, became this monster vampire on the face of humanity- a vampire squid, to quote Matt Taibbi, sucking out the juices of all mankind. Why? It's a basic question.

    Source: collider.com
  • I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds trying to see giant squid. I mean, we know they exist because we have seen dead ones. But I have never seen a living one. Nor has anybody else.

    Mean   Squids   People  
    "David Attenborough: 'I have been in a vehicle that was charged by a rhinoceros, and that was tiresome'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2010.
  • The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.

    Kissing   Race   Squids  
    Aldous Huxley (1992). “Ape and Essence: A Novel”, p.19, Ivan R. Dee
  • There are a handful of barbecue seafood shacks on the beach at Hat Nai Yang, which is a fabulous place to have dinner. It's very much run for locals and they serve the catch of the day, which might be lobster, white snapper or squid. It's ridiculously reasonable, too.

    Running   Beach   White  
  • Sometimes making a story is as easy as putting two characters in a room and seeing what happens. So, imagine a great white shark and a giant squid in the same bathroom.

    Character   Sharks   Two  
  • I don't like slugs and tentacles and calamari or anything. Actually, tentacles made me turn into a vegetarian in high school. I'm not anymore, but in high school, we were dissecting squid.

    School   Squids   Slugs  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

    Powerful   Blood   Squids  
    Matt Taibbi (2010). “Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America”, p.209, Spiegel & Grau
  • it's like a squid in love with the sky.

    Sky   Squids  
  • The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one.

    Food   Squids   Greek  
  • Starlet sex scandal. Giant squid involved.

    Sex   Squids   Giants  
  • Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.

  • Me," Artemis blurted. "I'm the nut." Artemis could have sworn the squid winked at him before bringing the five-ton chunk of spacecraft swinging down toward the morsel of meat in its blue shell. "I'm the nut!" Artemis shouted again, a little hysterically, it must be said.

    Blue   Nuts   Squids  
  • All I know is, it is better to be the whale than the squid.

    Whales   Squids   Knows  
    Roger Ebert (2009). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009”, p.641, Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.

    Mother   Hair   Squids  
  • 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.

    Ocean   Kraken   Ideas  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Even something as complex as the eye has appeared several times; for example, in the squid, the vertebrates, and the arthropods. It's bad enough accounting for the origin of such things once, but the thought of producing them several times according to the modern synthetic theory makes my head swim

    Eye   Squids   Swim  
  • Even the weather seemed to be celebrating; as June approached, the days became cloudless and sultry, and all anybody felt like doing was strolling onto the grounds and flopping down on the grass with several pints of iced pumpkin juice, perhaps playing a casual game of Gobstones or watching the giant squid propel itself dreamily across the surface of the lake.

    Lakes   June   Games  
  • I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they'd arrest you for crimes against acting.

    Squids   Guy   Acting  
    "EXCLUSIVE: Bill Nighy Is Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. May 20, 2007.
  • I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls 'tomorrow's child,' asking why we didn't do something on our watch to save sharks and bluefin tuna and squids and coral reefs and the living ocean while there still was time. Well, now is that time.

    Children   Ocean   Sharks  
  • I would love to see a giant squid. Very few people have seen them. And only about half a dozen people have seen one alive.

    Squids   People   Giants  
    "Sir David Attenborough interview: The one question about life that still baffles him". Interview with Jenn Selby, www.independent.co.uk. January 28, 2015.
  • The most repulsive thing you could ever imagine is the inside of a camel's mouth. That and watching a girl eat octopus or squid.

    Girl   Squids   Octopus  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for giant squid, I cannot have a baby.

    Baby   Squids   Giants  
    Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark came early and the scavengers passing down the steep canyons with their torches trod silky holes in the drifted ash that closed behind them silently as eyes.

    Eye   Dark   Sea  
    Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.83, Pan Macmillan
  • The only thing we have to fear is a giant wheelchair-crushing squid. Well... uh... actually, I guess that's the only thing I have to fear.

    Crush   Squids   Giants  
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