Webs Quotes

45 quotes by 39 authors

Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so… — A.C. Grayling
The structure of the human brain is enormously complex. It contains about 10 billion nerve cells (neurons), which are interlinked in a vast network through… — Fritjof Capra
All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter. — Vladimir Nabokov
Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then… — Diane Setterfield
Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also… — Tracy Kidder
You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's… — Elwyn Brooks White
Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a… — Neil Gaiman
Lazy Lob and crazy Cob are weaving webs to wind me. I am far more sweet than other meat, but still they cannot find me!… — J.R.R. Tolkien
She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the… — Walter Pater
For a moment, I believe, there was a stillness. A shocking realization by all things - beetles, dormice, the spiders spinning their webs in the… — Alexander Masters
Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies. — Neil Gaiman
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… — Aldous Huxley
Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun. — Clifford Geertz
I'm scared," she said. "These days I feel like a snail without a shell." "I'm scared too," I said. "I feel like a frog without… — Haruki Murakami
But...books are so much more. Some of them are webs; you can feel your way along their threads, but just barely, into strange and dark… — Lauren Oliver
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?" "Easy," said the cat. "Think of somebody walking around the world.… — Neil Gaiman
Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated and "represented." We… — Marvin Minsky
Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist, smoke, shrouds, ghosts, membranes, retinas… — Alice Oswald
Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night. — Alice Oswald
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily… — Anacharsis

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