Quotes About Spiders

#1. 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.

Mira Grant

#2. I try to bring my mascara everywhere because I'm a blonde and you know blondes have really light eyelashes, you always wanna put more and more on 'til they look like spiders, that's just what I do.

Julianne Hough

#3. And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. With all due respect to arachnophobes, I love spiders. Some might call me obsessed, but I've been studying spiders and spider silks for many years now and don't see an end in sight. There is simply too much to do.

Cheryl Hayashi

#5. The very first thing on the docket is to have the opportunity to travel to look at spiders in other parts of the world. I know there are really cool silks out there.

Cheryl Hayashi

#6. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books. Ron was always my favorite character, because I feel like I relate to him, like weve both got red hair, we both like sweets, weve both got lots of brothers and sisters. Ive got one brother and three sisters, and both scared of spiders.

Rupert Grint

#7. On more than one occasion David, in his urge to explore the darker corners of the bookshelves, had found himself wearing strands of spider silk in his face and hair, causing the web's creator to scuttle into a corner and crouch balefully, lost in thoughts of arachnoid revenge.

John Connolly

#8. Holy bejeezus," Lula said, eyes bugged out, looking at the building. "This is scaring the crap out of me. This is like where Dracula would live if he didn't have any money and was a crack-head. I bet it's filled with rabid bats and killer snakes and hairy spiders as big as dinner plated.

Janet Evanovich

#9. I am scared of spiders! And I still get a little afraid every time I have to do something new or have to get out in front of a big crowd. The first time I sang "Swag It Out" live, I was really scared.

Zendaya

#10. Spiders are anti-social, keep pests under control, and mostly mind their own business, but they somehow summon fear in humans who are far more dangerous, deceitful and have hurt more people. Of the two I'm more suspicious about the latter.

Donna Lynn Hope

#11. So, been attacked by any vampires yet?"
"Not one."
"Zombies? Giant spiders? Water monsters?"
It's been really quiet on the supernatural front"
"Too bad, 'cause I got attacked by a devil dog. It was not awesome.

Rachel Caine

#12. Damn it! I knew she was a monster! John! Amy! Listen! Guard your buttholes.

David Wong

#13. Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

Solon

#14. I guessed it was a migratory bird, too innocent to be wary of the spiders in the jungle grass. It worried be to think that we were a little like that bird

Paul Theroux

#15. In the beginning, sin is like a thread of a spider's web. But in the end, it becomes like the cable of a ship.

Rabbi Akiva

#16. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.

John Dos Passos

#17. I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges.

Phyllis McGinley

#18. People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.

Cate Blanchett

#19. We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it's one little room, like a bath house in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner. and that's all eternity is? I sometimes fancy it like that.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#20. At first sin was as fragile as a spiders thread, and finally as stout as a ship's hawser; sin arrived as a passerby, next lingered for a moment, then came as a visitor, and finally became master of the house.

Israel Shenker

#21. Once you begin watching spiders, you haven't time for much else.

E.B. White

#22. For those of you that have been following Ultimate Spider-Man, you know how we took that show and brought it to the next level of what Marvel Television is doing. And Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. was the next level of what we wanted to get to.

Jeph Loeb

#23. It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.

E.B. White

#24. Growing up, I was the champion of spiders and moths in my house, catching and releasing them for my mother at great personal risk.

John L. Monk

#25. When his writing is going well, Gordon Strangle Mars likes to wake up at 6 a.m. and go out driving. He works out new plot lines about giant spiders and keeps an eye out for abandoned couches, which he wrestles into the back of his pickup truck. Then he writes for the rest of the day.

Kelly Link

#26. I had a dream about you last night.
We moved into a cabin in the countryside.
I couldn't handle the spiders.
You couldn't handle my drama.
I moved back to the city.

Michael Summers

#27. I turn back to Griffin. His expression is stony and unreadable, although if I had to take a wild guess, I'd say it was tending toward ominous.

Amanda Bouchet

#28. The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.

Bill Vaughan

#29. My rule of thumb is build a site for a user, not a spider.

David Naylor

#30. Patience to the spider

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#31. To me nature is ... spiders and bugs, and big fish eating little fish, and plants eating plans, and animals eating ... It's like an enormous restaurant, that's the way I see it.

Woody Allen

#32. I would rather be trampled by thousands of children than touch a spider.

Frank Iero

#33. My attitude toward spiders is similar to my attitude toward ballerinas: I am in awe of your natural beauty and flawless instincts, but if you come in my house I will kill you.

Eric D. Snider

#34. ...a fissure appeared. Splinters of plastic broke away around it, and the fissure widened, radiating further fractures.

When the first leg broke out, Simon tried to shriek.

A. Ashley Straker

#35. The four seasons in Australia consist of "fuck it's hot," "Can you believe how fucking hot it is?", "I won't be in today because it is too fucking hot" and "Yes, the dinner plate size spiders come inside to escape from the heat. That is a fucking whopper though.

David Thorne

#36. Spiders - the way they move freaks me out. It's so malevolent.

Matt Smith

#37. Christmas without a murder plot is like a day without giant spiders eaten orphans" (quote on my special gift holiday mugs)

Roma Gray

#38. Mummies unraveled
and put on new wraps.
Spiders found corners
and spun silky traps.
Count Dracula grinned
and slicked back his hair.
Frankenstein's bride cried,
"I've nothing to wear!

Natasha Wing

#39. There are worse things than a bridal shower. Famine, for instance. Colonoscopies. Stepping barefoot on spiders in the middle of the night.

Riley Lashea

#40. My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.

William Shakespeare

#41. [A] planet, wholly inhabited by spiders, (which is very possible)

David Hume

#42. Gabe had faced pissed-off shifters, irritated vampires, and worse. But spiders were his mortal enemies. To be fair, the basement's spiders were large and in charge. "We

Chloe Neill

#43. He sits in his tomb up top of the Newport hotel. It contains a crunchy armchair, a floppy bed, several arrogant spiders, a mattress with stains the shapes of planets and an existential crisis. But he wouldn't want to sound too French about it.

Kevin Barry

#44. Cold metal walks across my forehead,
spiders search for my heart.
It is a light that goes out in my mouth ...

Georg Trakl

#45. Like letting spiders live because they eat mosquitoes,
Clary thought. So they're good enough to let live, good enough to make your food for you, good enough to flirt with-but not really good enough? I mean, not as good as people.

Cassandra Clare

#46. No one knows, incidentally, why Australia's spiders are so extravagantly toxic; capturing small insects and injecting them with enough poison to drop a horse would appear to be the most literal case of overkill. Still, it does mean that everyone gives them lots of space.

Bill Bryson

#47. I wonder idly how long i can go without sleep before I flip my shit and start running down the street in my underwear, hallicinating purple spiders.

Lauren Oliver

#48. There are spiders living comfortably in my house while the wind howls outside. They aren't bothering anybody. If I were a fly, I'd have second thoughts, but I'm not, so I don't.

Richard Brautigan

#49. What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.

David Attenborough

#50. Some people are afraid of ghosts, some of spiders or snakes - in those days we were afraid of our fellow human beings.

Malala Yousafzai

#51. His green eyes sparkled. 'I think you're the first girl I've ever met who would rather slay a twelve foot snake than face one teeny, tiny spider.'
'Spiders are scarier,' she murmured, staring ahead.

K.D. Jones

#52. Spiders' teeth are not so long as a torment that cannot be avowed.

Raymond Queneau

#53. Fear of new ideas breeds angry head spiders that have been known to attack.

Leah Broadby

#54. I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry.

Patti Smith

#55. It was no mean trick doing the wiring with those mittens on. But I managed it and crawled out, batting spiders into the shadows. I could hear a thud as they hit the floor joists, then a scuttling sound, then, worst of all, the silence of spiders.

Bailey White

#56. there is nothing to fear more in life than fear.... and spiders

Darynda Jones

#57. At Highgarden we have many spiders amongst the flowers. So long as they keep to themselves we let them
spin their little webs, but if they get underfoot we step on them.

George R R Martin

#58. Monkey bar," Annabeth said. "I'm great at these." She leaped onto to the first rung and start swinging her way across. She was scared of tiny spiders, but not of plummeting to her death from a set of monkey bars. Go figure.

Rick Riordan

#59. I'm delirious," said Howl. "Spots are crawling before my eyes."
"Those are spiders," said Sophie. "Why can't you cure yourself with a spell?"
"Because there is no cure for a cold," Howl said dolefully.

Diana Wynne Jones

#60. I don't have arachnophobia (irrational fear of spiders) because fear of spiders is perfectly rational so I refuse to recognize it as a "disorder.

Jenny Lawson

#61. Birds I am fine with - spiders are an entirely different matter.

Tippi Hedren

#62. The panic crawled throughout his limbs like a million tiny newborn spiders.

Calvin Demmer

#63. Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.

John Dryden

#64. Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each.

Neil Gaiman

#65. When Frank Sinatra sings Stormy Weather, the flies and the spiders get along together.

Cake

#66. I suspect that the real attraction was a large library of fine books, which was left to dust and spiders since Uncle March died.

Louisa May Alcott

#67. Cheryl and spiders: It kind of just goes together now.

Cheryl Hayashi

#68. Teach them a spider does not spin a web. Spiders spin meaning. Cut one strand and the web holds. Cut many, the web falls. With the web's fall, so too falls the spider. Break the web. Break the spider. So breaks the circle of life.

Frederic M. Perrin

#69. Hansel and Gretel had breadcrumbs, she had plastic spiders. Worst-case scenario, she could find her way back by following the trail of dead birds that had choked on them.

Jeff Strand

#70. If I wasn't certain you were bigger than my thumb, I should've guessed your dress was fashioned from rose petals and spiders' web.

Jessica Brockmole

#71. They moved from the drawing room to a dining room on the ground floor where they found spiders large as saucers lurking in the dresser (Ron left the room hurriedly to make a cup of tea and did not return for an hour and a half)

J.K. Rowling

#72. Without you,
I am an empty place
where spiders crawl and nothing takes root.

Judith Ortiz Cofer

#73. Not a fan of spiders. I saw the movie 'Arachnophobia,' which was single-handedly rated in the top three worst choices of my life.

Chris Pine

#74. I'm not afraid of spiders; I've had worse in my bed.

Donna Lynn Hope

#75. It's spider season. Every year, right about now, thousands of the godless eight-legged bastards emerge from the bowels of hell (or the garden, whichever's nearest) with the sole intention of tormenting humankind.

Charlie Brooker

#76. Spiders don't chew. They send a special liquid into their prey. The prey's insides turn to mush. Then the spider sucks up its tasty lunch!

Julie Murphy

#77. Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

John Dryden

#78. Then, there are the places you would rather not go-a tax collectors' convention, a sewage treatment plant, or maybe the home of someone who keeps spiders as pets and insists on taking them out of their cages and making you hold them.

Obert Skye

#79. My practical approach based on experience is to create a website for real Internet users, not for search engine spiders.

David Naylor

#80. Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.

Solon

#81. Marvelous," she said. "Tell me about this tapestry."
Arachne's lips curled over her mandibles. "Why do you care? You're about to die."
"Well, yes," Annabeth said. "But the way you captured the light is amazing. Did you use real gold thread for the sunbeams?

Rick Riordan

#82. Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?

E.B. White

#83. Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?

Marcus Aurelius

#84. A guy once told me that girls' purses reminded him of spiders.

P.C. Cast

#85. I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes
Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me, Yet still they crawl offensive to mine eyes: I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em.

Colley Cibber

#86. I don't know why it's not universally acknowledged that looking back is a terrible idea. It only makes going forward that much harder.

Amanda Bouchet

#87. Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.

Johnnetta B. Cole

#88. A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#89. There was an inexhaustible source of clouds in some land far to the north. Decisive people, minds fixed on the task, clothed in thick, gray uniforms, working silently from morning to night to make clouds, like bees make honey, spiders make webs, and war makes widows.

Haruki Murakami

#90. He has hands like two white spiders.

George R R Martin

#91. And the Yak, they can afford to move so fucking slow, man, they'll wait years and years. Give you a whole life, just so you'll have more to lose when they come and take it away. Patient like a spider. Zen spiders.

William Gibson

#92. You don't work with spiders very long before you start noticing how important silk is to their life and just how special that is for spiders.

Cheryl Hayashi

#93. I sagged to my knees as the adrenaline wore off and my muscles started to shake, leaving me weak and nearly hyperventilating. I could handle goblins and bogeymen and evil, flesh-eating horses, but giant freaking spiders? That's where I drew the line.

Julie Kagawa

#94. dropping spiders

Dave Barry

#95. The greatest force is derived from the power of thought. The finer the element, the more powerful it is. The silent power of thought influences people even at a distance, because mind is one as well as many. The universe is a cobweb; minds are spiders.

Swami Vivekananda

#96. I excel at pulling strings!" said Arachne. "I'm a spider!

Rick Riordan

#97. The laws are like spiders' webs: just as spiders' webs catch the weaker creatures but let the stronger ones through, so the humble and poor are restricted by the laws, but the rich and powerful are not bound by them (Valerius Maximus Memorable Deeds and Sayings 7.2 ext. 14).

J.C. McKeown

#98. I'd rather meet Spider-man than some creator that would put me in real awe!

Marko Djurdjevic

#99. She hoped it wasn't a spider. Spiders made Coraline intensely uncomfortable.

Neil Gaiman

#100. Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away.

Craig Brown