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Quotes About Spider

was a single word, inked thinly and carefully between the lines of the inventory, like a spider hanging barely visible in a corner. ?????? An assault, a rebuke across the years. An outstretched hand. The inverted letters spelled the single Hebrew word that meant "I loved.
~ Rachel Kadish
An elaborately jointed array of bones landed in my lap, spasming like a broken crab. My cry was every bit as manly as that of a young schoolgirl surprised by a hairy spider. I knocked the thing off me, onto the floor. It
~ Dean Koontz
Spider legs. Some arachnid form, anyway. A xenos variety of chelicerata. But these limbs were not under a microscope. They were two hundred metres long. 'That's not local,' he said.
~ Dan Abnett
Something dropped on her shoulder, but even as she screamed, her heart stopping midbeat, the next oncoming branch swept the tarantula away. Aww! Ick! She manically brushed her shoulder with her free hand, every inch of her covered in goose bumps. "When running from people who're trying to kill you," Walker advised as he kept dragging her, "it's better to stay quiet. Generally speaking.
~ Unknown
The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.
~ Louise Bourgeois
Kate had the shape of a pixie, all noodle arms and legs; and when she bent to the ground and kicked up her feet, it looked as delicate as a spider walking a wall. Me, I sort of defied gravity with a thud.
~ Jodi Picoult
We moved back to the Raffles', then back to Devon (to Horrabridge, where I saw a spider so big I could hear its footsteps).
~ John Cleese
could just see the movements of Miss Winter's lashes. They crouched and quivered around the eye, like the long legs of a spider around its body.
~ Diane Setterfield
All over Alabama the lamps are out. Every leaf drenches the touch; the spider's net is heavy. The roads lie there with nothing to use them. The fields lie there, with nothing at work in them, neither man nor beast.
~ James Agee
Mabel likened Lavinia's hand to a demented spider who has fallen into an inkwell.
~ Lyndall Gordon
If there is a God he's a great loathsome spider in the darkness.
~ John Fowles
Her trial was fast approaching and the spider's web all but complete.
~ John Guy
A bite from the Brazilian wandering spider results in an erection that lasts for several hours.
~ John Lloyd
I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.
~ Louise Bourgeois
Sooner or later, they'll realize that having one spider in the house kills a lot of the lesser insects.
~ Unknown
SPIDER: I guess you've got a point. RAYNIEDAY: No, I've got a stake, LOL.
~ Mari Mancusi
The spider's lesson is never to be greedy. It shows that objects of necessity can be objects of beauty and art as well. The spider teaches us that we can be too easily enraptured with ourselves.
~ Marlo Morgan
The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes
~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
A spider web is a natural structure that works by ultimate tension, and an eggshell is a structure that works by ultimate compression. Both use the minimum and the appropriate material with maximum efficiency. Just as we learn to build suspension bridges with ropes and cables in imitation of spider webs, we can learn to build domes in imitation of eggshells, building in maximum tension or compression.
~ Unknown
All beauty touches the human heart, be it only so small as an ant or a spider.
~ Naomi Alderman
That swirling devil's clot, that black maelstrom of cylindrical majesty. It is a swirling gray spider egg unspooling, filled with rotten teeth. A biblical monster, God's vengeance. Whirring
~ Noah Hawley
It was a spider as large as a wagon wheel, black as slate.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
He disgusted them the way a fat spider that you can't bring yourslef to crush in your own hand disgusts you.
~ Patrick Süskind