Quotes About Haystacks

#1. Heroes in the stories never had to sleep in haystacks, or under hedges. But it was not easy to pretend, anymore, that he was a hero in a story.

Robert Jordan

#2. Most haystacks do not even have a needle.

Lorenzo Lamas

#3. The mouse is a sober citizen who knows that the grass grows in order that mice may store it as underground haystacks, and that snow falls in order that mice may build subways from stack to stack ...

Aldo Leopold

#4. Forsake search for needles that are so very small in haystacks that are so very large.

Paul Samuelson

#5. The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face

Cory Doctorow

#6. those losses were the result of wild game, such as elk herds eating haystacks meant

C.J. Box

#7. This,' whispered the Doctor to Romana, 'is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks.

Gareth Roberts

#8. A kid just couldn't see the difference. It was like being color-blind or something, or preferring Frazetta to all those blobby old paintings of haystacks and French people in rowboats.

Tim Powers

#9. The blond cornfields were red gold, the haystacks turned rosy and threw long shadows. The whole prairie was like a bush that burned with fire and was not consumed.

Willa Cather

#10. Whenever I am tired of making photographs of drawings, I make drawings of photographs.

Vik Muniz

#11. Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

Ann Rule

#12. In other matters no sensible person will behave so irresponsibly or rest content with such feeble grounds for his opinions and for the line he takes. It is only in the highest and most sacred things that he allows himself to do so.

Sigmund Freud

#13. Genius is a good deal like the sea ... Nothing can restrain its tide or quicken it.

Inez Haynes Irwin

#14. Uh ... could you leave him here? He kind of comes with the place."
Frowning, Lock glanced down. "Oh, jeez!" Oh, jeez?

Shelly Laurenston

#15. Angelina Jolie's older brother James Haven, the one she made out with, has a license plate on his SUV that reads Shiloh. Maybe it's not that weird. After all, he could be the father.

Chelsea Handler

#16. She faces him, trying to take a breath that's long and level, trying to pull all the slopping emotions back inside so he won't see them in her face.

M.R. Carey

#17. If certain bacteria, fungi, or algae inch across something made of copper, they absorb copper atoms, which disrupt their metabolism (human cells are unaffected). The microbes choke and die after a few hours.

Sam Kean

#18. Colt knew he didn't have to remind Sully but he did it all the same. "He fucked his wife pretending he was me and pretending she was February." "I could see that'd make you impatient for us to find him.

Kristen Ashley

#19. The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable obstacles. This is true in real life.

Sufjan Stevens

#20. Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

Moritz Gudemann

#21. It's not easy to define poetry.

Bob Dylan