Top 40 Spider Quotes

Seamless, careful, by-the-book performance provides no evidence of what the spider’s thinking about the fly enmeshed in its web.

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.

I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It’s pathetic.

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.

I’ve driven Ferrari 488 GTB, the 488 Spider, the Mclaren 570s and 540c, the Bentley GT3R, GT Speed and V8s, Mercedes AMG GTs, Lamborghini Huracan, and many others.

I have an Apple computer, which I use to play Spider Solitaire and do research on the Internet.

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.

Since childhood, I have been a fan of Spider Man because, according to me, he has the maximum humanity; he is very human, very mortal. So he even gets hurt. He has a poor background, but when he wears the costume, he forgets all of that, all the pressures of the society on him.

In Mexico, when we want to speak deep secrets, we drink pulgue together. It is a drink made from the cactus plant, and when you take the bottle from your mouth, it leaves a string behind, between the mouth and the bottle, like a spider’s web. It shows that the truth sticks inside.

Someone at school said I dance like a spider, and I’ve never got beyond that. It’s always been a running joke in my friendship groups.

The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider’s web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights – the ‘family’ and its closest circle?

It’s actually pretty complex, because there’s two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider’s poisoned version of what took place.

If I see a spider in my room, I gotta sleep on the couch for, like, two days.

I know lots of women who have slim legs but refuse to wear skirts because of unsightly varicose or spider veins. Though heredity plays a role, your genes don’t have to doom you to a life of long pants.

I wrote ‘Evil Spider’ about wanting someone that’s already taken. I guess it was based on a personal experience, but I went a lil extreme on the theme… me being a spider trying to snare someone. In real life, I was just observing!

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

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.

Spider and heights are much easier than beating a man at the Ally Pally, any day of the week!

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

I used to have a spider phobia, but I’m pretty fearless now.

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.

If I’m interviewing someone I need to know everything about them – I do these massive spider diagrams. Everything under different categories, and certain questions in other categories.

I was a kid of the ’90s, so I was always inspired by Gwen Stefani, especially the ‘Spider Web’ video.

I drove from Naples to the Amalfi coast in an Alpha Romeo 1969 Spider, which was lovely. There have been lots of movies made down there, and I felt a bit like James Bond – the driving is quite hairy. The locals have mopeds, but you wouldn’t catch me on a bike on those roads. A tank would be safer!

I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it’s cool to have strong and powerful pets.

I don’t like creepy-crawly stuff. Girls can pick up a spider and just chuck it out of the window. No way, I’m not doing that. I actually scream.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We now fly with an airbus, which has 210 seats, six times the week to Palma to the spider of the air Berlin.

People will be able to survive, of course, without honeycreepers and monk seals. But if the wolf spider is in trouble, we are in trouble, too.

I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don’t have a cell phone.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

The juggernaut that is steampunk, like Dr. Loveless’s giant mechanical spider in the 1999 film version of ‘The Wild, Wild West,’ seems capable of crushing all naysayers.

Comedians are ridiculously oversensitive, so, especially with the Internet, you feel everything, like a spider on a web going, ‘Oh God, I’m getting stomped’.

I love anywhere new and different. That’s the fun of travel. I’ve always loved driving through Spain, France and Italy – sometimes in an Alfa Spider.

I’ve got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.

I’m going to do a sequel to ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ and this one is called ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’, which is an American production. It’s a clean slate: new cast, new director and everything and they’re skipping from book one to book four.