Spiders Quotes - Page 11

• Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared language, the voice of "communication"; the other is private, allusive, teasing, sly, idiosyncratic as the spider's delicate web, a kind of witchcraft unfathomable to ordinary minds.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Communication, Writing, Voice

  Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

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• A spider web of 'patriots for profit', operating from the highest positions of special trust and confidence, have successfully circumvented our constitutional system in pursuit of a New World Order.

  Bo Gritz

  Trust, Order, Special

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• Men can beat each other to a pulp and still walk away friends. With a woman, once an enemy, always an enemy. Women will sit like a spider, for years, waiting for the chance to strike. They never forget and seldom forgive.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Years, Waiting

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Infamous: Chronicles of Nick”, p.201, Macmillan

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• I guarantee if you walk into 100 spider webs, you will have changed your fundamental human behavior. And you can apply this to anything, And figure out a way to reprogram yourself, to change your primal fear.

  Chris Hadfield

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  "Former ISS Commander Talks About Being Blind in Space" by Jon M. Chang, abcnews.go.com. March 18, 2014.

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• Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and switfly
  descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to
  uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a spider's web would have to stop a fallen rock.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Rocks, Healthy, Wickedness

  Jonathan Edwards (2012). “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons”, p.177, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Heart, Soul, Brain

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• It also helps that what Dan Slott is doing with Peter Parker in the comics has elevated him to something else, so that Miles Morales at the moment is the more traditional Spider-Man figure in the universe: the high school student trying to balance high school and superheroics, and he can't catch a break. That was Peter's role, but it's not his role anymore, and it's Miles' role. That was given to me, and it's pretty cool.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  School, Men, Balance

  "Jessica Jones’ creator on the biggest change from comics to her Netflix show". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. June 29, 2016.

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• I was on the set of the first Powers pilot, and an actor of color came up to me and said, "When I was a kid, my friends wouldn't let me play Batman or Superman, because I wasn't their color. But they would let me play Spider-Man. And that's the difference." And I realized I had heard this story a hundred times from different people, but I wasn't there in my head yet.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Kids, Men, Differences

  "Jessica Jones’ creator on the biggest change from comics to her Netflix show". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. June 29, 2016.

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• It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

  Jonathan Swift

  Suspense, Miserable

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan (1812). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...”, p.169

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• When it was announced that Spider-Man was going to be in Captain America: Civil War, "Miles Morales" was trending on Twitter for like a week. More people than I ever thought had heard of it. Listen, people go to Build-a-Bear and make your Miles Morales Build-a-Bears and tell everybody that's what we want!

  Brian Michael Bendis

  War, Men, America

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• If I see a spider in my house, I put it in a cup, and then I take it outside. I save it. What is wrong with me?

  Jacqueline Emerson

  House, Cups, Ifs

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• Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare's plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Attachment, Play

  "A Room of One's Own". Essay by Virginia Woolf (Chapter 3, pp. 43-44), October 24, 1929.

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• I know of nothing more terrible than the poor creatures who have learned too much. Instead of the sound powerful judgement which would probably have grown up if they had learned nothing, their thoughts creep timidly and hypnotically after words, principles and formulae, constantly by the same paths. What they have acquired is a spider's web of thoughts too weak to furnish sure supports, but complicated enough to provide confusion.

  Ernst Mach

  Powerful, Confusion, Support

  Ernst Mach, Thomas J. McCormack (2014). “Popular Scientific Lectures”, p.288, Cambridge University Press

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• If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!

  Washington Allston

  Truth, Men, World

  Washington ALLSTON, Richard Henry DANA (Author of “Two Years before the Mast.”.) (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems ... Edited by Richard Henry Dana, Jr”, p.169

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• I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost down to the limits of visibility woven in freefall by hordes of tiny otaku spiders, I'm told, their genes programmed by an obsessive-compulsive sartorial topologist.

  Charles Stross

  Wearing Black, Pockets, Obsessive Compulsive

  Charles Stross (2010). “Glasshouse”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• I've no objection to the term 'graphic novel,' as long as what it is talking about is actually some sort of graphic work that could conceivably be described as a novel. My main objection to the term is that usually it means a collection of six issues of Spider-Man, or something that does not have the structure or any of the qualities of a novel, but is perhaps roughly the same size.

  Alan Moore

  Mean, Men, Talking

  "In League with Alan Moore". Interview with Mark Askwith, www.locusmag.com. July 2003.

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• Spider-Man is a genuine American myth with a dark, primal power, but it's also got this great superhero, and - hey! - he can fly through the theater at 40 miles an hour. It's got villains, it's got skyscrapers, it's colorful, it's Manhattan. I knew it would be a challenge, but I saw the inherent theatricality in it, and I couldn't resist.

  Julie Taymor

  Dark, Men, Superhero

  "KA-POW! Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" by Adam Green, www.vogue.com. November 12, 2010.

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• [Director Christopher] Nolan has not only crafted the best Batman movie, but arguably the second-best motion picture superhero narrative (topped only by the linked duo of Superman and Superman II). For those who thought Spider-Man and X-Men had a lot to offer, wait till you see where this film goes. Batman Begins is a strong re-start to a franchise that deserves better than it has often been accorded.

  James Berardinelli

  Strong, Men, Waiting

  "Batman Begins (2005)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,

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• Do I believe the execution will work out? Les Moonves said yes to Survivor based partly upon my show Eco-Challenge. He liked my way of filming outdoors. It was the first use of helicopters on a documentary with the gyro-stabilized lenses. And a certain beauty of filming, allowing the drops to fall from a leaf into a puddle, allowing a spider to weave a web. Taking the breath to allow that to happen rather than showing scene after scene.

  Scott Raab

  Believe, Fall, Work Out

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.

  John Dryden

  Lying, Doe, Silent

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.96, Pearson Education

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• Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

  John Dryden

  Wise, Gambling, Fool

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.123

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• ... there could be talking bunny rabbits, spiders who write English messages in their webs, and for that matter, melancholy choo-choo trains. There could be, I suppose, but there aren't-so my theory doesn't have to explain them.

  Daniel Dennett

  Writing, Talking, Religion

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• Biologically inspired materials could revolutionize materials science. People looking at spider silk and abalone shells are looking for new ways to make materials better, cheaper, and with less toxic byproducts.

  Janine Benyus

  People, Toxic, Shells

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• This was how you wound up in the Inquisition. When you stopped being able to see any difference between Light Ones and Dark Ones. When for you, people weren't even a flock of sheep, but just a handful of spiders in a glass jar. When you stopped believing in the future, and all you wanted to do was preserve the status quo. For yourself. For those few individuals who were still dear to you.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Believe, Dark, Differences

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2009). “The Twilight Watch: (Night Watch 3)”, p.344, Random House

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• My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Hero, Men

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