Squids Quotes

• El banco de inversiones más poderoso del mundo es un gran calamar vampiro que envuelve la faz de la humanidad, clavando implacablemente su embudo de sangre en todo lo que huela a dinero.

  Matt Taibbi

  Powerful, Blood, Smell

  Matt Taibbi (2010). “Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America”, p.209, Spiegel & Grau

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• it's like a squid in love with the sky.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Cielo

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• 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.

  Jeff Smith

  Food, Greek, Body

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• 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.

  David Attenborough

  People, Giants, Half

  "Entrevista a Sir David Attenborough: La única pregunta sobre la vida que aún le desconcierta". Entrevista con Jenn Selby, www.independent.co.uk. 28 de enero de 2015.

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

  Roger Ebert

  Whales, Knows

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009”, p.641, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.

  Aldous Huxley

  Kissing, Race, Leeches

  Aldous Huxley (1992). “Ape and Essence: A Novel”, p.19, Ivan R. Dee

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• I am a giant squid of anger.

  John Green

  Hipster, Giants, Giant Squid

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• 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.

  China Mieville

  Monsters, Giants, Fiction

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

  William Goldman

  Chicas, Malos, Chicos

  William Goldman (2001). “The Silent Gondoliers”, Del Rey

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• 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.

  Marlon Brando

  Girl, Octopus, Camels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Starlet sex scandal. Giant squid involved.

  Margaret Atwood

  Sex, Giants, Scandal

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• 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

  Believe, Communication, Swimming

  Terence McKenna (1998). "Verdaderas Alucinaciones: Y, el renacimiento arcaico", M J F Books

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• 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

  Frank B. Salisbury

  Eye, Swim, Example

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• 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.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Crush, Giants, Wheelchairs

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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.

  Margaret Atwood

  Want, Sucker, Craving

  Margaret Atwood (1988). "Ojo de gato", Doubleday, 1989

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• Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.

  Sylvia Earle

  Sharks, Sea, Ecosystems

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• [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.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Party, Goal, Leader

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• 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.

  Selma Blair

  School, Slugs, Vegetarian

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Me atormenta la idea de lo que Ray Anderson llama "el niño del mañana", que se pregunta por qué no hicimos algo durante nuestra guardia para salvar a los tiburones, el atún rojo, los calamares, los arrecifes de coral y el océano vivo mientras aún estábamos a tiempo. Pues bien, ahora es ese momento.

  Sylvia Earle

  Niños, Océano, Tiburones

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• Existe una variedad casi infinita de vida en el plancton; muchas clases de peces, tanto de superficie como de fondo; multitud de criaturas invertebradas en el lecho marino; y formas casi grotescas de vida pelágica en las profundidades oceánicas. También están los calamares y las sepias, y las marsopas, los delfines y las grandes ballenas.

  Alister Hardy

  Océano, Ballenas, Mar

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• 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.

  Bill Nighy

  Guy, Acting, Half

  "EXCLUSIVE: Bill Nighy Is Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. May 20, 2007.

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• 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.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lakes, June, Games

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• 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.

  Oliver Stone

  Country, Humanity, Vampire

  Fuente: collider.com

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• 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.

  Tony Parsons

  Running, Beach, White

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• 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.

  Jim Toomey

  Character, Sharks, Two

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