There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.
Alan Davies
I'm absolutely terrified of spiders.
Alexi Zentner
I grew up reading thrillers, science fiction, fantasy - you name it - and one day I asked myself if there was a reason why a fear of spiders was so common. Was there something buried deep in our evolutionary history that made being scared of spiders a survival instinct?
Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.
Alice Oswald
Spiders are always big in the autumn: they've had all summer to grow.
Alice Roberts
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 break through them.
Anacharsis
I was a massive arachnophobe - I just hated spiders.
Ant McPartlin
Unlike New Zealand, which has nothing especially predatory, Australia is full of spiders and crocodiles and all kinds of animals that will eat you and sting you.
Brian Cox
I'm not scared of snakes, spiders or heights. I have three children; as a mum, you can't be afraid of things like that.
Britt Ekland
People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.
Cate Blanchett
I always like jumping spiders. They're just so darn cute.
Cheryl Hayashi
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.
You don't work with spiders very long before you start noticing how important silk is to their life and just how special that is for spiders.
With all due respect to arachnophobes, I love spiders. Some might call me obsessed, but I've been studying spiders and spider silks for many years now and don't see an end in sight. There is simply too much to do.
The very first thing on the docket is to have the opportunity to travel to look at spiders in other parts of the world. I know there are really cool silks out there.
I certainly wasn't the kind of kid that grew up collecting bugs and spiders.
Cheryl and spiders: It kind of just goes together now.
Not a fan of spiders. I saw the movie 'Arachnophobia,' which was single-handedly rated in the top three worst choices of my life.
Chris Pine
I definitely have a fear of spiders. Don't we want to embrace our fears?
Christa Campbell
Real-life things, like spiders and snakes, that doesn't scare me, but if it's a monster or a ghost or an alien, that will always scare me.
Claire Coffee
Braveness, for me, is running into my basement with no socks on. There are huge spiders down there!
Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away.
I have mentally overcome situations most of you would be terrified to ever attempt: heights, fire, needles, spiders, snakes, angry monkeys, being shot, being hit by a car, going blind - you name it, I have been in a situation where I have had to mentally overcome my inherent fears to do my job.
What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.
I'm not a fearful person, I have no phobias of rats, snakes, spiders, nothing. I'm lucky in that sense.
I don't like big spiders in the house.
Here's an interesting thing about L.A. - it's overrun with black widow spiders. I could find you one on the street in 10 minutes.
What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.
I remember when we were doing the first Dragon's Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms and what was the danger in the room and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes.
I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
I was not a nice little girl. My favorite summertime hobby was stunning ants and feeding them to spiders.
I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness.
I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything.
There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.
I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
Moths are okay. Actually, moths don't bother me near as much as, say, spiders do.
There is a solo on 'Spiders,' albeit a kind of a non-traditional solo, but that's what I love.
My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.
Spiders - hate 'em.
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.
From everything I can read about Aussie spiders, it seems like all they really like doing is hiding in your house or garden or car until you 'accidentally' disturb them - probably by doing something crazy like putting on the shoe they are lurking in - and they can officially bite you to pieces.
I try to bring my mascara everywhere because I'm a blonde and you know blondes have really light eyelashes, you always wanna put more and more on 'til they look like spiders, that's just what I do.
I've never been scared of snakes. I'm really, truly arachnophobic - I hate spiders - but snakes have never freaked me out. I think they're really beautiful.
I'm not a big fan of spiders and snakes and worms and stuff like that, but they don't really creep me out.
I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.
I'm very nervous of snakes. I think it's something about the movement. I'm not a huge fan of spiders either.
I reckon my fear landscape would be me having to jump out of a plane or having to skydive. I would see that as one of the scariest things ever. And then also, I'm really not a fan of spiders and bugs.
I'm petrified of spiders, I've just never liked them.
