J. K. Rowling
Novelist, Screenwriter
"If anyone wanted ter find out some stuff, all they’d have ter do would be ter follow the spiders. That’d lead ‘em right! That’s all I’m sayin’."
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Spiders
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Ramana Maharshi
Spiritual Teacher
"Apart from thoughts, there is no independent entity called the world. In deep sleep there are no thoughts, and there is no world. In the states of waking and dream, there are thoughts, and there is a world also. Just as the spider emits the thread (of the web) out of itself and again withdraws it into itself, likewise the mind projects the world out of itself and again resolves it into itself."
J. K. Rowling
Novelist, Screenwriter
"Ron: Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies?"
Woody Allen
Director, Actor, Writer
"Honey, there's a spider in your bathroom the size of a Buick."
Tom Hanks
Actor, Producer
"If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman in your 60s, and maybe a Spider-Man in your 70s."
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"I take my hat off to you — or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you in spiders."
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"Sometimes it looks like I'm dancing, but it's just that I walked into a spider web."
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"It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider."
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"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete"
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"Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols."
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"Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies."
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"Comming from your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man"
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"Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that."
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"Let me sit in a flowerpot, The spiders won't notice. My heart is a stopped geranium."
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"Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?"
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"The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified."
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"My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies."
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"Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey."
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"All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one."
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"the beautiful are found in the edge of a room crumpled into spiders and needles and silence and we can never understand why they left,they were so beautiful. they dont make it, the beautiful die young and leave the ugly to their ugly lives."
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"I'm always worried about everything. Like spiders."
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"I like Spider-Man because he's become the most famous. He's the one who's most like me - nothing ever turns out 100 percent OK; he's got a lot of problems, and he does things wrong, and I can relate to that."
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"I am scared of spiders! And I still get a little afraid every time I have to do something new or have to get out in front of a big crowd. The first time I sang "Swag It Out" live, I was really scared."
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"There are occasions when I would rather feel like a fly than a spider."
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"I have drunk and seen the spider."
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