“Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?”

“(Cartoon title) Don't throw that old diaphragm away! (Sylvia at typewriter) Because it can be used as: 1. Doorknob cover (no need to worry about fingerprints ever again) 2. Bathtub stopper 3) Rainhat for cat 4. Small frisbee.”

Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist

“I had a brother once, he drowned in a bathtub,
before he'd ever learned how to talk.
And I don't know what his name was
but my mother does,
I heard her say it once, she said,
"Padraic, my prince, I have all but died from the sheer weight of my shame:
you cried but no-one came."”

Conor Oberst (1980) American musician

“It's like a bar of soap in the bathtub — you have it in your hand until you hold on too tight.”

Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer

“I'd Like to be
Under the sea
In an octopus's garden with you.”

Ringo Starr book Octopus's Garden

“The best AC/DC cover I've heard? There was an all-girl cover band in America, the Hell's Belles.”

Angus Young (1955) Scottish Australian guitarist

“You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?"
"We have a very big bathtub.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

“On octopuses - When you see 'em in films, they're running about an' that and everyone likes an octopus.”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

“If you could just see your face,” she told me. “You look like a cat in a bathtub.”

Patricia Briggs book Iron Kissed

“Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale