Quotes About Spiders

I don't handle creepy crawlers well. I had a spider problem at a house in Australia, and one of my female friends had to come rescue me from it.

I definitely have a fear of spiders. Don't we want to embrace our fears?

I was a massive arachnophobe - I just hated spiders.

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.

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.

I don't like spiders, man, just because they are sneaky - they just really scare me. They are hairy - ugh.

We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.

I don't like spiders at all, but I love heights.

I always like jumping spiders. They're just so darn cute.

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.

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

I don't like big spiders in the house.

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

Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that.

My field is with apex predators, hence your crocodiles, your snakes, your spiders.

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

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

Spiders keep me awake at night. If I see one that's too big to get under a glass, there will be big problems. I'll spend the rest of the day feeling like I'm being terrorised by this missing spider.

My biggest phobia is spiders. When I was in second grade, one of my classmates got bitten. That did it for me.

There is a solo on 'Spiders,' albeit a kind of a non-traditional solo, but that's what I love.

I'm very nervous of snakes. I think it's something about the movement. I'm not a huge fan of spiders either.

I am claustrophobic, I hate spiders, I don't love snakes but I would take a snake over a spider and I couldn't do a sky dive.

It's kind of ridiculous, but I hate creepy crawlers. Like centipedes. It's just the fact that they have so many legs! I am not great with spiders either. That absolutely creeps me out.

From everything I can read about Aussie spiders, it seems like all they really like doing is hiding in your house or garden or car until you 'accidentally' disturb them - probably by doing something crazy like putting on the shoe they are lurking in - and they can officially bite you to pieces.