Top 50 Haystack Quotes
#1. They should change "like finding a needle in a haystack" to "like finding a pen that works in that drawer filled with pens that don't work.
Jenny Lawson
#2. Protecting national security amounts to looking for needles in a haystack. The work becomes more difficult if the haystack is larger. Restricting immigration generally, and illegal immigration in particular, limits growth in the haystack, and supports protection of national security.
Jan C. Ting
#3. I think what we've had in the past is the government has said, "Well, we need to collect the whole haystack." And the haystack is Americans' privacy. Every Americans' privacy. We have to give up all of our privacy.
Rand Paul
#6. The digital transformation scorecard allows you to focus on the most important things. Without scorecards, it will become like searching for a needle in the haystack.
Pearl Zhu
#7. It's like looking for a needle that no one ever lost in a haystack that never was -
Charles Fort
#8. Instead of finding the needle in the haystack, we're making the haystack bigger,
Jesselyn Radack
#9. How do you find a buried city in a vast landscape? Finding it randomly would be the equivalent of locating a needle in a haystack, blindfolded, wearing baseball mitts.
Sarah Parcak
#10. Use the word 'ya'll' and before you knew it, you'd find yourself in a haystack french-kissing an underage goat
David Sedaris
#11. Finding happiness should not be seen as finding a needle in a haystack. Happiness is within. Each day is a blessing that brings an abundance of happiness. Therefore, finding happiness should be like finding a gift in a stack of gifts.
Steve Maraboli
#12. He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search.
Peter Jackson
#13. Problem is, finding a killer in the woods is a lot like trying to find a needle in a haystack.
Iain Rob Wright
#14. But I had a feeling I wasn't supposed to find her that way. She was not a needle. This was not a haystack. We were people, and people had ways of finding each other.
David Levithan
#15. It was like looking for a needle in a haystack full of vipers.
Samuel Beckett
#16. It's a funny thing about looking for things. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don't find it. If you don't give a darn whether you ever see the needle or not it runs into you the first time you lean against the stack.
P.G. Wodehouse
#18. Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles.
Albert Einstein
#19. People who think it's so hard to find a needle in a haystack are probably not quilters. Needles find you. Just walk on the haystack for a second. You'll find the needle.
Jenny Lawson
#20. It would hardly benefit me to hold anything back unnecessarily, when I know what I'm asking. For you to find a needle in
God, not even a haystack. A needle in a tower full of other needles.
Cassandra Clare
#21. The fact is, we're looking for a very small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London.
Charles Clarke
#22. I know what I'm asking. For you to find a needle in - God, not even a haystack. A needle in a tower of other needles."
"Plunge your hand in a tower of needles," said Magnus, "and you are likely to cut yourself badly. Are you sure this is what you want?
Cassandra Clare
#23. For you to find a needle in-God, not even in a haystack. A needle in a tower full of other needles.'
'Plunge your hand into a tower of needles,' said Magnus, 'and you are likely to cut yourself badly.
Cassandra Clare
#24. Let's make the haystack smaller. Let's say for a while, until we can figure out who's coming, who's going, and who's overstayed their visa, let's have extra scrutiny and figure out what's going on, because there's a whole segment of the world that is intent on sending people here to attack us.
Rand Paul
#25. If you are looking for a needle in a haystack, and somebody has already cataloged all the straw in the haystack, when you get to that needle you will recognize it's different than what was supposed to be there based on all that computerized haystack information that had been predetermined for you.
Francis Collins
#26. Oh, you mean they're just people getting away early for the holidays to avoid the Rush?" said Maladict. "Sorry, I got confused. It must be that woman carrying a whole haystack we just passed.
Terry Pratchett
#27. Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet."
Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison. "You take the poetry out of everything."
"Says the man who'd just punch the haystack.
Keith R.A. DeCandido
#28. Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!
John C. Bogle
#29. Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light.
Mary Oliver
#30. Ozil could find the needle in a haystack with his sense of smell.
Ray Hudson
#31. Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview.
Steve Jobs
#32. Love is the only war worth dying for. But every time I say 'please, come back', I feel like I'm trying to find a dirty needle into a haystack.
Andrea Gibson
#33. Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.
Andrew O'Hagan
#34. I think we've made the collection haystack so big, no one's ever getting through the haystack to find the needle. What we really need to do is isolate the haystack into a group of suspicious people and spend enormous resources looking at suspicious people, people who we have probable cause.
Rand Paul
#35. He and Marten may be needles in a haystack, but straw by straw the hay is being taken away. It's only a matter of time, hours at most, before the floor is bare and the needles and right there in front of us.
Allan Folsom
#36. As Nassim Taleb, the author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, writes, "Big data may mean more information, but it also means more false information." And even when the information is not false, the problem is "that the needle comes in an increasingly larger haystack.
Arianna Huffington
#37. The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.
Ali Partovi
#38. The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.
Beryl Markham
#39. Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter.
Julius H. Comroe Jr.
#40. Being an app developer isn't at all like working at Apple. There is this huge haystack of apps, and even a very shiny needle can get lost in that haystack.
Bill Atkinson
#41. It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
Lawrence Durrell
#42. I'm kinda like a needle in a haystack right now cause I haven't blown up yet ...
SonReal
#43. Hope is like a needle in a haystack. No matter how small, and even if you can't find it, it's there. It may just take another set of eyes.
Mark Cortes
#44. This is needle-in-haystack shit. And the haystack is made of needles. On a needle planet.
Larissa Ione
#45. No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios:
Pebble : Beach
Raindrop : Ocean
Needle : Haystack
Zadie Smith
#46. But first, the news: The House of Commons was sealed off today after police chased an escaped lunatic through the front door during Prime Minister's question time. A spokesman at Scotland Yard said it was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Ronnie Barker
#47. I am familiar with the phrase, 'needle in a haystack' and I think I understand its meaning more than I wish to.
David Sadler
#48. One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data.
Jared Sandberg
#49. Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel.
Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain.
Gautama Buddha
#50. When you're looking for a needle in a haystack, don't afraid to burn the haystack to save yourself from spending half your life picking through strands of straw.
A.J. Darkholme
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