Mike Rowe Quotes

I have always loved octopuses. No sci-fi alien is so startlingly strange.

I was bitten by an octopus.

When it comes to the battle of the molluscs, cephalopods win tentacles down.

The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal on the planet. It's a visual predator.

The box jellyfish takes you into an area of what I'd call science fiction. You feel like you've been dipped in hot burning oil. You burst into flames.

We split from our common ancestor with the octopus half a billion years ago. And yet, you can make friends with an octopus.

Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for a widely distributed nervous system. That is why a severed octopus arm may crawl on its own and even pick up food.

It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head, that have given the name of cephalopod to these animals, were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair.

I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of drugs' sort of way." - Becks

Beware as you get the octopus on board. Suddenly he relaxes his grasp, and shhots out a jet of ink, which smarts considerably.

[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful.

I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.

As you travel through the Middle East what keeps on striking home to me is how similar everyone is, and yet the degree to which we can find differences to fight wars over. It requires a great deal of empathy, I think, between various sides to overcome this history and live in peace.

All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.

The less the difference, the greater the quarrel over it.

The only difference between me and the fans is I can't eat or drink during the game and you guys can't make moves. Besides that, we are pretty much the same people.

Over Kyle's shoulder she could see grandpa, looking like a cross between a grizzly bear and a giant pissed-off blowfish.

An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life.

But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.

If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all.

The one thing we all have in common is that we're human. Why pay more attention to the things that make us different over the things that bring us together?

When I get asked, 'what are the differences between Twilight and THG' I'm like, 'Erm, what are the similarities?'

A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.

Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

Leo waited while the fish centaur put away his supplies. Aphros's lobster-claw horns kept swimming around in his thick hair, and Leo had to resist the urge to try and rescue them.