Spidery Quotes

#1. There was a brass plate mounted on the door at eye level, so old that the lettering that had once been engraved there had been reduced to a spidery, unreadable code, the name of some long dead function or functionary, polished into oblivion.

William Gibson

#2. Johanna bent her head far back to look up into the leafy canopy and the rainy sky. There was a cautious wonder on her face. She said something in Kiowa in a low voice. So much water, such giant trees, each possessing a spirit. Drops like jewels cascaded from their spidery hands.

Paulette Jiles

#3. I searched my feelings, an activity never far removed from looking for a dead rat in a spidery crawl space under the house.

Michael Chabon

#4. I am the Reverend, the note said in a spidery scrawl. Would you like to join my flock of the Hushed?

Tim Lebbon

#5. There, in thin blue lines that could be called spidery, was the mark of Lord Nightshade - the

Michelle Sagara

#6. The psychology of brutality was worse than the beatings.

John Blair

#7. For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?

Fredric Jameson

#8. I was dominated, soul, brain, and power, by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream. I

Oscar Wilde

#9. I have a lot of gadgets, remote controls for everything - the curtains, pool cover - it's like The Jetsons!

Lil' Romeo

#10. The moment when I press the shutter is fantastic, orgasmic, so charged with the hope that this will be a great, original, interesting, and perfectly composed photo. But like any other exciting thing in life, it is usually spoiled by some ridiculous, unpredictable, and annoying detail.

Jean Pigozzi

#11. Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research.

Kenneth G. Wilson

#12. Being on TV is like being alive, only more so.

John Updike

#13. One measure of twentieth-century time is the supersonic three and three-quarter hours it takes the Concorde to fly from New York to Paris, gate to gate. Other measures come with the waits on the expressways and the runways.

James Gleick

#14. To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.

Henry Cloud

#15. It is one thing to know what should be done, it is another to do it.

Steve Backley

#16. My heart hurts that means I'm alive.

Kazuya Minekura

#17. There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.

Charles Spurgeon