Quotes About Scarecrows

#1. Life is populated with scarecrows - all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?

Jerry Spinelli

#2. I'm allergic to hay and scarecrows do their job.

Amanda J. Norton

#3. They looked like scarecrows,' Slim said of his troops. 'But they looked like soldiers, too.' He also recalled the heart-rending sight of a four-year-old child in Imphal trying to spoon-feed her dead mother from a tin of evaporated milk.

Andrew Roberts

#4. The audiences certainly have [declined]. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and talk to one another. And look like scarecrows.

Evelyn Waugh

#5. It's got two aspects. The bit that involves the public life I could not really tolerate and cannot really tolerate. I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that.

Zadie Smith

#6. When we are certain that the way to accomplish our own wishes is to help others, we have no regrets.

Sakyong Mipham

#7. The path to love can be clouded with mystery and intrigue.

Truth Devour

#8. I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets.

Raymond Chandler

#9. The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to frighten away anyone following the historical argument where it leads. It is high time the birds learned to take no notice.

N. T. Wright

#10. What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves
our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.

Margaret Atwood

#11. Keeping all things in their places. Everybody was dressed for a Fancy Ball that was never to leave off. From the Palace of the Tuileries, through Monseigneur and the whole Court, through the Chambers, the Tribunals of Justice, and all society (except the scarecrows),

Charles Dickens

#12. We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down.

George MacDonald Fraser

#13. Kami concentrated on the scarecrows going by and scribbled: "Write in your notebook to avoid this awkward moment!" Angela

Sarah Rees Brennan

#14. I'm dreadful at schmoozing at Hollywood parties.

Lena Headey

#15. Scarecrows weren't made to scare the crows, they were made to scare the corn

Laura Ruby

#16. Most of the fears in life are only the scarecrows; once you realise this, the field is all yours to benefit from!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

Thomas Huxley

#18. Scarecrows weren't meant to scare the crows, they were meant to scare the corn. It was enough to give a person nightmares. Otherwise, why would so many horror movies have cornfields in them?

Laura Ruby

#19. It seemed to Rosa Lublin that the whole peninsula of Florida was weighted down with regret. Everyone had left behind a real life. Here they had nothing. They were all scarecrows, blown about under the murdering sunball with empty ribcages.

Cynthia Ozick

#20. Most of the time is with the family. Most of the time, is all the time. When we work it's a very intensive chunk of time. We work for 12 hours a day, 14 hours a day is common. And we'll do that for a few months and then we get to relax a little bit.

Brad Pitt