When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan shrimp off a tray.

- Amy Poehler

Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized eggs are submerged in water, minuscule crustaceans emerge; they can grow up to 2 inches long.

- Brendan I. Koerner

I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.

- Brooke Burke

I'm still a small shrimp, not a dragon.

- Barry Lam

It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.

- Dolly Parton

If you have caviar, the way to eat it is by the spoonful. Don't combine it with shrimp, pomegranate seeds and huitlacoche.

- Ruth Reichl

I shall be but a shrimp of an author.

- Thomas Gray