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In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge
Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies. -- Neil Gaiman
Sometimes it looks like I'm dancing, but it's just that I walked into a spider web. -- Demetri Martin
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. -- Honore de Balzac
When I go to the garage to pick up my clubs, I clean the spider webs off. -- John Ratzenberger
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. -- Edwin Way Teale
Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night. -- Carl Sandburg
A poem is a spider web Spun with words of wonder, Woven lace held in place By whispers made of thunder. -- Charles Ghigna
Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape. -- Solon
I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate spider web that all clings together. -- Helen Vendler
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
A spider web of 'patriots for profit', operating from the highest positions of special trust and confidence, have successfully circumvented our constitutional system in pursuit of a New World Order. -- Bo Gritz
Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
I guarantee if you walk into 100 spider webs, you will have changed your fundamental human behavior. And you can apply this to anything, And figure out a way to reprogram yourself, to change your primal fear. -- Chris Hadfield
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. -- Henry James
Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. -- Aldous Huxley
The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so that the sunlight has forgotten to find its way through, of what use can it be? Now, the Church is God's window; and if it is so obscured by errors that its light is darkness, how great is that darkness! -- Henry Ward Beecher
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?" "Easy," said the cat. "Think of somebody walking around the world. You start out walking away from something and end up coming back to it." "Small world," said Coraline. "It's big enough for her," said the cat. "spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies." Coraline shivered. -- Neil Gaiman
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. -- William Blake
The greatest artist and web-designer ever is indeed a spider! -- Munia Khan
His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web. -- John McCarthy
Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart. -- Gustave Flaubert
How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting. -- Karl Kraus
Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web? -- E. B. White
My faith is a great weight hung on a small wire, as doth the spider hang her baby on a thin web. -- Anne Sexton
Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do, In spiderâ??s web a truth discerning, Attach one silken strand to you For my returning. -- E. B. White
"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web." -- E. B. White
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
You can't get away, you can't escape. You'll jump through a plate-glass window several times and end up being right back in the spider's web. -- Tobe Hooper
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. -- Virginia Woolf
A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child. -- Katherine Anne Porter
The next time you see a spider web, please, pause and look a little closer. You'll be seeing one of the most high-performance materials known to man. -- Cheryl Hayashi
I would want to have Spider-Man's web slinging abilities. I always thought it'd be cool to swing around the city jumping off of buildings and free diving. -- Denzel Whitaker
It was great fun to do because of the central character. With The Girl in the Spider's Web, the girl is really the central character. She's the whole thing. -- Steven Knight
Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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