Web Quotes
895 quotes by 656 authors
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We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
— John Keats
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Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch.…
— Anne Carson
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A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path…
— Jane Smiley
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We don’t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement of…
— Nicholas G. Carr
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When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they could of their…
— Mary Pipher
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Do you understand how there could be any writing in a spider's web?" "Oh, no," said Dr. Dorian. "I don't understand it. But for that…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children…
— Colin Meloy
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Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web. There is a…
— Don DeLillo
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Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt…
— H. Rider Haggard
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All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once…
— Anais Nin
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A spider lives inside my head Who weaves a strange and wondrous web Of silken threads and silver strings To catch all sorts of flying…
— Shel Silverstein
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Bluetooth earpieces are so geeky," Dan Cahill said. "But they free up your hands for surfing the web, stealing priceless jewels, and eating pastry," Atticus…
— Roland Smith
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Linda asked that morning what it was about Charlotte’s Web that Ally particularly liked; maybe it would help to think about that, since it was…
— Meg Waite Clayton
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Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by…
— George Eliot
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J_Doe032692 wrote: I am not a thin person. However this does not give people the right to taunt me, calling me ugly and worthless, telling…
— Julie Anne Peters
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Lie beside me. Let me see the division of your pores. Let me see the web of scars made by your family's claws and you…
— Jeanette Winterson
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I cannot life for life itself: but for the words which stay the flux. My life, I feel, will not be lived until there are…
— Sylvia Plath
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Like delicate lace, So the threads intertwine, Oh, gossamer web Of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace Wild nature produces... Ughh, look at the spider…
— Bill Watterson
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In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers,…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe…
— Jodi Picoult
Who Wrote These Web Quotes
656 authors contributed a total of 895 Web Quotes, led by these top contributors: