Top 94 Quotes About Cobwebs
#1. The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
Francis Bacon
#2. And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft.
Adriana Trigiani
#3. But then the girl moved, and smiled, and pulled her hand from the grate- a gorgeous green stone clutched tightly in her grasp. It was covered with dust and cobwebs, but it was uncracked and unharmed.
And, of course, completely fake.
Ally Carter
#5. When I am old and addled I will make coronets like Cad, that have nothing to do with history, but represent the whimsy and cobwebs in my brain.
Sherri Baldy
#6. We talked for hours. He talked and I listened.
It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.
John Fowles
#7. In India she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. The fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#9. Consciousness amplifies the weak signals that, like cobwebs spun between trees, web Narratives together. Moreover, it amplifies them selectively and in that way creates feedback loops that steer the Narratives.
Neal Stephenson
#10. Think of your woods and orchards without birds!
Of empty nests that cling to boughs and beams
As in an idiot's brain remembered words
Hang empty 'mid the cobwebs of his dreams!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#11. His face was gaunt, scraped and bloody, his hair dusted with cobwebs, but when he locked eyes with her, she thought he had never looked more handsome.
Percy & Annabeth
Rick Riordan
#12. You don't have to go to some special private school to be an artist. Just look at the intricate beauty of cobwebs. Spiders make them with their butts.
Jenny Lawson
#13. I knew I was catching at straws; but in the wide and weltering deep where I found myself, I would have caught at cobwebs.
Charlotte Bronte
#14. All of it gleamed in haphazard array, and most was covered by cobwebs from centuries past, along with layers of dust and grime.
J.R. Rain
#15. To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.
Margaret Deland
#16. Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks - cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.
David Allen
#17. A bare bulb swished from side to side. Dust floated in what little light it threw and cobwebs hung from the rafters. It smelled of spiders.
Louise Penny
#18. The human body is much stronger than we think. It seems to laugh at the cobwebs of despair that the heart weaves before our eyes in order to blind us to our fate. The body walks and goes on walking.
Consuelo De Saint-Exupery
#19. Ah, Meese has brought us her finest goblets! A moment, whilst Kruppe sweeps out cobwebs, insect husks and other assorted proofs of said goblets' treasured value.
Steven Erikson
#20. Are cobwebs a treat where you come from?
Darren Shan
#21. Dead man, dead man
When will you arise?
Cobwebs in your mind
Dust upon your eyes
Bob Dylan
#22. Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; ... that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.
Diogenes
#23. You're paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in dust, cobwebs in cobwebs.
Shin Kyung-sook
#24. If I could have just one more wish, I'd wipe the cobwebs from my eyes.
Ozzy Osbourne
#25. Memories, they are the cobwebs of the mind.You can try and sweep them away, but it seems as if some trace always remains..
Kelly Creagh
#26. She's taken, shit dick. Go set up your room. Your machine has cobwebs on it.
Jamie McGuire
#27. How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned out or rediscovered?
Amitav Ghosh
#28. He spoke so slowly, cobwebs could have formed between his words.
Scott Heim
#29. Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.
Robert Genn
#30. Shake up your life a bit. Get rid of the cobwebs. Take the road less traveled. Most people live within the confines of their comfort zone. Yogi Raman was the first person to explain to me that the best thing you can do for yourself is regularly move beyond it.
Robin S. Sharma
#31. Lazy Lob and crazy Cob
are weaving webs to wind me.
I am far more sweet than other meat,
but still they cannot find me!
Here am I, naughty little fly;
you are fat and lazy.
You cannot trap me, though you try,
in your cobwebs crazy.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#32. When you bring the light into your dark house, that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders
Rajneesh
#33. Above me, the moon spun low across the sky and a few watery clouds hung from the stars like cobwebs. In
Cherie Priest
#34. Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.
Mort Walker
#35. I love dreams. I know enough about them to know that dream logic is no story logic, and that you can rarely bring a dream back as a tale: it will have transformed from gold into leaves. from silk to cobwebs, on waking
Neil Gaiman
#36. How long we talking?" Sacks asks. "We're closer to three years than we are over two now," Katie blabs. "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph," Candy says. "Talk about blue lady balls," Sacks joins in. "There's probably cobwebs up in your shit," Louise commiserates.
Jordan Marie
#37. She waited, unwilling to meet his eyes, hoping he would go on. When he didn't, the silence stretched between them like invisible cobwebs. In the dimmest part of her, she realized she might have wishes, too, elusive wishes that belonged more to a girl in a garden than they did to a captive.
Caragh M. O'Brien
#38. It was a day in March, and the sky was a faint green with the first hint of spring. In Central Park, five hundred feet below, the earth caught the tone of the sky in a shade of brown that promised to become green, and the lakes lay like splinters of glass under the cobwebs of bare branches.
Ayn Rand
#39. The Empress said, her own breath coming in gasps, lips against her daughter's cold forehead and soft hair - her hair at least was still the same, soft, delicate, sweet cobwebs. . . .
Vera Nazarian
#40. If I were you, I'd clear those cobwebs out because there isn't a shop-vac out there strong enough to handle that job.
Flora Roberts
#41. Suffice it to say that the LOR has usurped the place of my own work, now adorned with cobwebs and dust in a remote corner of my office.
Julie Schumacher
#42. [P]eople think that in order for something to be frightening, it has to be dark, musty, and full of cobwebs and secrets. That's a lie of epic proportion. The scariest, most unexplainable things happen in the bright light of day. And just when you least expect.
Suzanne Palmieri
#43. But when she reached in, toward the place in her chest where that monster dwelled, she found only cobwebs and ashes.
Sarah J. Maas
#44. Sounds rose from the earth. New sounds: cobwebs of exhalations, pauses of the heart, the monastic work of the worms translating flesh to soil, the slow crawl of rock. There was another kind of industry, somewhere beneath her. Another kind of machine.
Nathan Ballingrud
#45. Every morning there were silver snail trails crisscrossing the hall. There were cobwebs like soft clouds and pepperings of mold at the windowsills. The moor was coming inside.
Rachel Joyce
#46. The last cobwebs
of fog in the
black firtrees are flakes
of white ash in the world's hearth.
Denise Levertov
#47. Sweep up the debris of decaying faith;
Sweep down the cobwebs of worn-out out beliefs,
And throw your soul wide open to the light of reason and of knowledge.
Be not afraid
To thrust aside half-truths and grasp the whole.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#48. Just thinkin' about tomorrow clears away the cobwebs and the sorrow ... .
Lauren Oliver
#49. One big blow can hit and destroy any strong door in front of you. As for the 1000 feeble blows, they can't even remove the cobwebs. Courage is the key.
Israelmore Ayivor
#50. So thick with cobwebs it seemed like skeletons had decorated for a party. Raven fought her way through the webs to the far wall and ripped the velvet cloth off the mirror. She saw her own reflection staring back - long black hair with purple highlights, dark eyebrows,
Shannon Hale
#51. - You are better, do not worry - she said. - In fact, when we light up our inner light, the first things we see are the cobwebs and dust, our weak points. They were there all the time, only you saw nothing in the darkness. Now it will be easier to cleanse your soul.
Paulo Coelho
#52. Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Mahatma Gandhi
#53. Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
George Eliot
#55. The only clouds are pale and thin, hung as high as they can manage, like cobwebs in the high arches of a stairwell, and the sky is a freshly scrubbed blue, as permanent-looking as the first day of the holidays.
Jon McGregor
#56. Entangled cobwebs of my mind keep me awake at night! Need to get back to sm serious writing again!
Deeba Salim Irfan
#57. There is one man," the artist said after a moment. He'd paled. "H. F. Powell."
"Where would I find him?"
West didn't seem to hear him for a moment. He shook his head as if clearing away cobwebs from his brain. "Find him?" His laugh was more of a grunt. "Six feet under, last I checked.
B. J. Daniels
#58. I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.
Matthew Macfadyen
#59. She breathes in the cold air; pellets of blown ice whip against her face. The wind's getting up, as the TV said it would. Nonetheless there's something brisk about being out in the storm, something energizing: it whisks away the cobwebs, it makes you inhale. The
Margaret Atwood
#60. So much evil, Nightblood said, like a woman tisking as she cleaned cobwebs from her ceiling.
Brandon Sanderson
#61. Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.
Victor Hugo
#62. I didn't know who I was or what I was until I transformed into some mere words on an unscathed sheet, some lines pressed between the cobwebs of a turbulence, a love story.
Prachi Prangya Agasti
#63. Last night I weaved dreams from the cobwebs of time!
Avijeet Das
#64. This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.
Colum McCann
#65. A Deap Vally renaissance is going to begin next year and will be our focus for the start of 2013. They will blow the cobwebs off a music scene that has become just a little bit stale.
Ben Lovett
#66. Running cleared the day's cobwebs from my mind and focused my thinking, and gave me time and space to sort out anything that was bothering me, or to detach and think of nothing at all.
Jeff Horowitz
#67. Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Jonathan Swift
#68. The nastiest things they saw were the cobwebs: dark dense cobwebs with threads extraordinarily thick, often stretched from tree to tree, or tangled in the lower branches on either side of them.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#69. Who can ever affirm, or deny that the houses which have sheltered us as children, or as adults, and our predecessors too, do not have embedded in their walls, one with the dust and cobwebs, one with the overlay of fresh wallpaper and paint, the imprint of what-has-been, the suffering, the joy?
Daphne Du Maurier
#70. One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.
Francis Bacon
#71. As if that one act of memory had blown away some of the cobwebs of the day.
Neil Gaiman
#72. He spoke in the hoarse, cadenced tones of a lifelong teller of tales - one of those divine fools born to merge memory and mendacity into dreams as airily gorgeous as cobwebs string with drops of dew.
Stephen King
#73. A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
Robert Genn
#74. This was a bad plan. A horrible plan. Just because cobwebs were growing in my vagina didn't mean I should hook up with some stranger.
Ellis Leigh
#75. Granny looked up at the zombie. He was - or, technically, had been - a tall, handsome man. He still was, only now he looked like someone who had walked through a room full of cobwebs.
'What's your name, dead man?' she said.
Terry Pratchett
#76. COBWEBS. The spider as an artist Has never been employed Though his surpassing merit Is freely certified By every broom and Bridget Throughout a Christian land. Neglected son of genius, I take thee by the hand.
Emily Dickinson
#77. I cleaned the attic with the wife the other day. Now I can't get the cobwebs out of her hair.
Tommy Cooper
#78. Don't underestimate the effects of complacency ... cobwebs are deceptively heavy and are hard to shake loose.
Erica Goros
#79. Christ was vitoe magister, not scholoe; and he is the best Christian whose heart beats with the purest pulse towards heaven; not he whose head spinneth out the finest cobwebs.
Ralph Cudworth
#80. One of those divine fools born to merge memory and mendacity into dreams as airily gorgeous as cobwebs strung with drops of dew.
Stephen King
#81. He finally took his harp out of the cobwebs, walked out the door, and admitted who he was: the Unforgiven.
Patricia A. McKillip
#82. My intellect would wish for a clear-cut universe with no dim corners, but there are these cobwebs in the cosmos.
C. G. Jung
#83. Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine.
Lillian Russell
#84. Habits are first cobwebs, then chains.
--Spanish proverb
Jep Robertson
#86. Because that's what the right partner did: they helped you find your better self, especially when you couldn't clear out the cobwebs on your own to find the way.
Heidi Cullinan
#87. Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives.
Denis Waitley
#88. And the cobwebs of time
would surrender,
dormant, so that the rainbows
of new eras can emerge
Despite the hollowness
of you.
Nema Al-Araby
#90. The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#91. Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.
Edward Abbey
#92. I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven.
Augustus William Hare
#93. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.
Henry Ward Beecher
#94. Fearless
the cobweb swings from the ceiling
Indolent Housewife
in Daisies
lain!
Emily Dickinson
