Mike deGruy

If you're going to make a lot of films about a particular group of animals, you might as well pick one that's fairly common. And octopus are: they live in all the oceans. They also live deep. And I can't say octopus are responsible for my really strong interest in getting in subs and going deep, but whatever the case, I like that.

American Director

Sharon Needles

Some people say, 'Oh you're a weird queen. You're a punk queen.' All queens are weird! I don't care if you're in a sickening gown or dressed as an octopus. You are treating every day as if it were Halloween. You are donning a character and a persona that isn't real.

American Entertainer

Scott Fujita

The first time I had a baked potato, I was eight years old at a friend's house. Most white kids growing up have a baked potato every day. I didn't even know what to do with it, how to open it. I was the only white kid in high school eating octopus.

American Athlete

Sy Montgomery

I think all animals have souls. I feel certain that if we have souls, octopuses have souls, too. If you grant something a soul, it demands a certain level of sacredness. Look around us. The world is holy. It is full of souls.

American Writer

Jeph Loeb

As we've often said, to the world at large, Marvel looks like a giant octopus that's out to swallow the galaxy - which, by the way, we are. But we are, in fact, a rather small and intimate company.

Algerian Writer

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

American Author

Sue Perkins

The only time I am not talking is when I am dancing. I look like an electrocuted octopus.

English Comedian

China Mieville

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

English Writer

Patti Harrison

I don't like to eat octopus. They're so smart.

American Actress

Ted Cruz

American Politician

Remember 'octopus' refers to a sea creature, distinguishable among marine life.

Marine Life

An octopus has eight tentacles, which are key features to describe it.

Eight Tentacles

Mention an octopus squirting ink as a defense mechanism.

Ink Escape

Use this metaphorical sense to describe something with far-reaching influence.

Extended Influence

Emphasizes the complexity and interconnectedness in various contexts.

Complex Systems

Can imply control and negative influence of an 'octopus-like' entity.

Negative Connotation

 wearable octopus octopus suit pressure sensing so for the first time we're gonna measure human motion within the suit how are the astronauts moving within the suit we can quantify that and then we design the protection to just keep them healthy and well and let them do their tasks as best they can it has space applications we're pretty

How to create a space...

 the moving rock trick. So, we're learning lots new from the shallow water. Still exploring the deep, but learning lots from the shallow water. There's a good reason the shallow water's full of predators -- here's a barracuda -- and if you're an octopus or a cephalopod,

Underwater astonishments...

 Where those animals are hiding or even underneath stones. But, you know, there is one species of octopus, the big blue octopus. That likes to collaborate with other species when it goes foraging. Collaboration feeding is really important throughout the animal kingdom.

Float Like a Butterfly…...

 The leaf-tailed gecko and the octopus fool viewers by blending into the surfaces on which they rest. Other animals use mimicry to protect themselves. Harmless scarlet kingsnakes have evolved red, yellow, and black patterns

The sneakiest tricksters...

 that's almost as deep as any divide can be between two animals with three hearts no bones a beak with a venomous bite and a gut that runs through its brain to one point of view the octopus is completely alien

Octopus Playtime PIPE...

 appreciation for the courage of his Korean friends their brave they're very brave I think they're very brave and he's also gained a healthy respect for the tenacity of the octopus

Would You Eat Live...

 okay you've been weighed and there is a new dimension being added to this study of octopus intelligence personality scientists have used the relationship

Can Octopuses Recognise...

 But that huge brain helps the octopus to get creative and to think up a dramatically different strategy.

Octopus Steals Crab from...

 with the metal trap in the way that's not too successful but that huge brain helps the octopus to

ONE HOUR Of Amazing...

 helping me take care of the octopus you know the octopus is very happy to see laurel every day