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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country. -- Marilyn vos Savant
It's so bizarre, I'm not scared of snakes or spiders. But I'm scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird! -- Nicole Kidman
I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything. -- Holly Valance
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient. -- Elizabeth Banks
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow. -- Voltaire
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. -- William Blake
Spiders - the way they move freaks me out. It's so malevolent. -- Matt Smith
The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. -- Alexander Pope
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. -- Honore de Balzac
The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy. -- Emily Dickinson
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel. -- John Keats
Will you walk into my parlour? Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy. -- Mary Howitt
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
I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on. -- Haley Joel Osment
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. 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
Much like a subtle spider which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide; If aught do touch the utmost thread of it, She feels it instantly on every side. -- Sir John Davies
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. -- Pablo Picasso
I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy. -- Kary Mullis
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
There are some viviparous flies, which bring forth 2,000 young. These in a little time would fill the air, and like clouds intercept the rays of the sun, unless they were devoured by birds, spiders, and many other animals. -- Carl Linnaeus
I remember when we were doing the first Dragon's Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms and what was the danger in the room and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes. -- Don Bluth
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. -- Tryon Edwards
the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. -- Jack Kerouac
Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach, as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies. -- Neil Gaiman
Spiders so large they appear to be wearing the pelts of small mammals. -- Dave Barry
Spiders will build their webs no matter how many laws you pass against it. -- Marty Rubin
I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges. -- Phyllis McGinley
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
Spiders frighten me. In response to the spider alerts for Australia, please can the Australian government remove all spiders from Australia and blow them into outer space. -- Eddie Izzard
Spiders evidently as surprised by the weather as the rest of us: their webs were still everywhere - little silken laundry lines with perfect snowflakes hung out in rows to dry. -- Leslie Land
The first pair of boots I remember owning were Puma Spiders - I still have them in a cupboard at home! They were fantastic boots. I was nine-years-old and I scored about 70 goals with them in a season. -- Peter Crouch
I want to write about spiders. To me, this is the one theme that cuts right across and scares just about everybody. Spiders, to me, are just about the most horrible, awful things that I can think about. I think everyone is afraid of spiders. -- Stephen King
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
I'm always worried about everything. Like spiders. -- Taylor Swift
My field is with apex predators, hence your crocodiles, your snakes, your spiders. -- Steve Irwin
I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me. -- Taylor Swift
I suffer from arachnophobia. I don't mind the tiny spiders so much, it's the ones with their legs covered in thick hair. -- Leona Lewis
We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism. -- Laura Riding
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
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
It's like the spiders are sharing an ancient secret with me, and that's why I'm going to spend the rest of my life studying spider silk. -- Cheryl Hayashi
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them. -- Anacharsis
The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place. -- Richard Dawkins
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. 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
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
We suddenly saw how people reacted in the event of massive social upheaval, and the way that the little problems in your life don't go away. You don't stop being frightened of spiders just because the world's blown up. -- Simon Pegg
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
People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff. -- Tim Vine
I'm the breadwinner. I kill the spiders. Actually I don't kill them. I put them in a plastic bag and take them outside. I take out the trash cans. I change the light bulbs. I lug the 50 lbs. suitcases down the stairs. -- Teri Hatcher
My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration. -- Joanna Lumley
I have mentally overcome situations most of you would be terrified to ever attempt: heights, fire, needles, spiders, snakes, angry monkeys, being shot, being hit by a car, going blind - you name it, I have been in a situation where I have had to mentally overcome my inherent fears to do my job. -- Criss Angel
Don't worry, spiders, I keep house casually. -- Kobayashi Issa
I'm really afraid of spiders and my own feelings. -- Julie Klausner
Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night. -- Alice Oswald
Cheryl and spiders: It kind of just goes together now. -- Cheryl Hayashi
Ron: Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies? -- J. K. Rowling
Once you begin watching spiders, you haven't time for much else. -- E. B. White
I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes." "Those are spiders. -- Diana Wynne Jones
Birds I am fine with - spiders are an entirely different matter. -- Tippi Hedren
There is nothing to fear but fear itself. And spiders. ~Bumper sticker~ -- Darynda Jones
Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies, I am an apeman. -- Ray Davies
And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear. -- Jimmy Buffett
If it weren't for men, this planet would be overrun with giant spiders. -- Daniel Tosh
I certainly wasn't the kind of kid that grew up collecting bugs and spiders. -- Cheryl Hayashi
Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them. -- Robert Harris
Between giant spiders and meeting Edmund Ellis did I have a chance, Ms Rainn? -- S.A. Tawks
I definitely have a fear of spiders. Don't we want to embrace our fears? -- Christa Campbell
Fear of new ideas breeds angry head spiders that have been known to attack. -- Leah Broadby
I'm massively scared of spiders. Even small ones scare the life out of me. -- Robert Kazinsky
Im massively scared of spiders. Even small ones scare the life out of me. -- Robert Kazinsky
I'm not scared of spiders at all. I'm the spider killer in the house. -- Gigi Hadid
People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia. -- Cate Blanchett
That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. -- Diana Wynne Jones
We have nothing to fear but fear itself. That, and those great big furry spiders. -- Lev L. Spiro
I just imagine all the other runners are big spiders, and then I get super scared, -- Usain Bolt
Let me sit in a flowerpot, The spiders won't notice. My heart is a stopped geranium. -- Sylvia Plath
Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters. -- Gail Carson Levine
Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies. -- John Dryden
Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that. -- Matt Smith
Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away. -- Craig Brown
The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
When you bring the light into your dark house, that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders -- Rajneesh
Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb. -- Francis Bacon
I want a guy who can clean my gutters and kill my spiders - who's simple yet layered. -- Kelli Garner
I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people. -- Boy George
Whoever authorized the evolution of the spiders of Australia should be summarily dragged out into the street and shot. -- Mira Grant
There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different. -- Isabella Rossellini
Lawyers are like spiders, they've eat up all the flies, and I guess they'll have to eat each other soon. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness. -- Helen Mirren
Too many bugs and leeches and spiders and spiderwebs. Please spray the wilderness to rid the area of these pests. -- Dave Barry
My practical approach based on experience is to create a website for real Internet users, not for search engine spiders. -- David Naylor
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The biggest thing I've learned is to smash my own spiders and get on with my day. There will be another! -- Hoda Kotb
Cold metal walks across my forehead, spiders search for my heart. It is a light that goes out in my mouth... -- Georg Trakl
You're a monster, Mr. Grinch. Your heart's an empty hole. Your brain is full of spiders, You've got garlic in your soul. -- Dr. Seuss
Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape. -- Solon
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
As far as what I'm afraid of, I hate spiders. I'm pretty good at being not afraid of almost anything, except for spiders. -- Josh Hutcherson
I'm not scared of snakes, spiders or heights. I have three children; as a mum, you can't be afraid of things like that. -- Britt Ekland
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
Here's an interesting thing about L.A. - it's overrun with black widow spiders. I could find you one on the street in 10 minutes. -- Dominic Monaghan
The low ceiling that was water stained and boasting spiders so large she half expected Frodo and Sam to appear and fight them off. -- Alexandra Ivy
How did you-" Fool your guards? They're not very good, the forgot to check the ceiling for spiders."Valek grinned. His angular face softened. -- Maria V. Snyder
Cole chuckled, saying, "Fear of spiders is arachnophobia, and fear of tight spaces is claustrophobia, but fear of Ali Bell is just called logic. -- Gena Showalter
Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs. -- Henry Ward Beecher
There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with. -- Alan Davies
I don't like spiders; setting a trap is the art of low creatures! Who shall ever lay a trap shall be the meanest being on earth. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Real-life things, like spiders and snakes, that doesn't scare me, but if it's a monster or a ghost or an alien, that will always scare me. -- Claire Coffee
The most challenging scene for me was the spider scene, because I don't like spiders in real life. Even rubber ones I get really scared of. -- Rupert Grint
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
Unlike New Zealand, which has nothing especially predatory, Australia is full of spiders and crocodiles and all kinds of animals that will eat you and sting you. -- Brian Cox
I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn. -- Robert Lowell
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Since someone ate crabs, others must have eaten spiders as well. However, they were not tasty. So afterwards, people stopped eating them. These people also deserve our heartfelt gratitude. -- Lu Xun
The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies. -- Daniel Quinn
The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies." -- Daniel Quinn

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