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Quotes About Arachnid

A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.
~ Joanne Harris
Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
If any person examines by the microscope that part towards the extremity of the spider's body from whence its thread proceeds, he will observe the spot to be, as it were, surrounded by five several protuberances or risings, each ending in a point and altogether forming a kind of enclosure.
~ Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
On more than one occasion David, in his urge to explore the darker corners of the bookshelves, had found himself wearing strands of spider silk in his face and hair, causing the web's resident to scuttle into a corner and crouch balefully, lost in thoughts of arachnid revenge.
~ John Connolly
There was a spider…
~ B.J. Daniels
Some spider silks are really strong, but not all of them are. The ones that are really strong can actually rival steel and approach the tensile strength of Kevlar. Thus far, the dragline silk seems to be the strongest.
~ Cheryl Hayashi
The eyeless tick climbs onto a grass stem to await the smell of butyric acid emanating from mammalian skin. Since experiments have shown that this arachnid can go for eighteen years without food, the tick has ample time to meet a mammal, drop onto her victim, and gorge herself on warm blood. Afterward she is ready to lay her eggs and die.
~ Frans de Waal
I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. It got me as I was coming out of the shower. I'd never seen that kind of spider before, I'm from Canada and we don't get those types up there.
~ Elisha Cuthbert
I loved Spider-Man, Spider-Man was the man.
~ Kel Mitchell
ARÁCNIDO" si no te importa. Los Spiderman somos muy sensibles
~ Chris Claremont
dropping spiders
~ Dave Barry
Wolf-Spiders Ruleth the Land
~ David Foster Wallace
A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.
~ Joanne Harris
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
A bite from the Brazilian wandering spider results in an erection that lasts for several hours.
~ John Lloyd
Sooner or later, they'll realize that having one spider in the house kills a lot of the lesser insects.
~ Unknown
To bear your weaponry so blatantly before you, to move through the world as a nightmare. The spider regarded him, and he regarded the spider.
~ Marcus Sakey
It was a spider as large as a wagon wheel, black as slate.
~ Patrick Rothfuss