Top 58 Quotes About Straws: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Straws

#1. Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.

#2. I knew I was catching at straws; but in the wide and weltering deep where I found myself, I would have caught at cobwebs.

Charlotte Bronte

#3. We have our mission and we are going to complete it. So grab your straws and suck it the fuck up.

Greg Rucka

#4. "It's rock star stuff. You wouldn't understand. Bendy straws are the shit."

Kim Holden

#5. In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate.

Tanith Lee

#6. Busta Rhymes the mighty infamous,
Always misbehaving and mischeivous,
Causing aggravation, I'll never pause,
Pushing out spit balls through plastic straws.

Busta Rhymes

#7. Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.

Alexander Pope

#8. Tall and skinny, with arms and legs sticking out at odd angles, as if [they] were made of drinking straws instead of flesh and bone.

Lemony Snicket

#9. two Lesbian Agents with glazed faces of grafted penis flesh sat sipping spinal fluid through alabaster straws

William S. Burroughs

#10. There will grow from straws a mighty heap.

Ovid

#11. Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings.

J. Robert Moskin

#12. Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls, must dive below.

John Dryden

#13. When you are desperately grabbing at straws all you get is a handful of weeds.

Stephen Richards

#14. Why did one straw break the camel's back?
Here's the secret:
The million other straws underneath it.

Mos Def

#15. Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames. But gather these straws into a bundle and light them, and you get a mighty fire, rising like a column into the sky; public prayer is like that.

John Vianney

#16. Bendy straws are the shit, dude.

Kim Holden

#17. For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,
And hold-fast is the only dog.

William Shakespeare

#18. When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.

W. Somerset Maugham

#19. I want the cheesy dates at the movies, the stupid walks at the beach and sharing straws in a cup

Tyler, The Creator

#20. Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

Saint Augustine

#21. Most people spend their lives building financial houses of straws, which are susceptible to wind, fire, rain and big bad wolves.

Robert Kiyosaki

#22. A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the Ocean of Life and Bliss.

Swami Vivekananda

#23. The whole point of straws, I had thought, was that you did not have to set down the slice of pizza to suck a dose of Coke while reading a paperback.

Nicholson Baker

#24. Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire,
Begin it with weak straws.

William Shakespeare

#25. She speaks much of her father; says she hears
There's tricks i' the world; and hems, and beats her heart;
Spurns enviously at straws; speaks things in doubt,
That carry but half sense.
(Ophelia)

William Shakespeare

#26. This is what schizophrenia is: endless despair, endless, inconclusive treatment; endless clutching at little straws of betterness; endless realisation that that is all they are, is all there is.

Tim Salmon

#27. People read what news they wanted to and each accordingly built his own rathouse of history's rags and straws.

Thomas Pynchon

#28. An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

Friedrich Schiller

#29. We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.

Anna Kamienska

#30. That is one fireball of a girlfriend you got there. The OR team was drawing straws to see who would go out and update her and your family. I think she actually had them scared.

Jay Crownover

#31. I'm a huge candy fan. My favorite growing up was always Sour Belts or Sour Straws.

Kendall Schmidt

#32. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

Alfred North Whitehead

#33. The Jews proposed the ridiculous story that the guards had fallen asleep. Obviously, they were grasping at straws. But the point is this: they started with the assumption that the tomb was vacant! Why? Because they knew it was!

Lee Strobel

#34. I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#35. Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness ...

Robert E. Howard

#36. To say that the vote fraud conspiracy theorists are tilting at windmills is an understatement. They're using a legitimate public process to pursue an agenda that is, at best, grasping at straws and, at worse, partisan.

George Voinovich

#37. Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.

Idries Shah

#38. Our friendship is made of bendy straws, long midnight letters,
my so-called life marathons, sleepless sleepovers, diner milk shakes, apron strings, a belief in beauty,
sucking helium, and the most trust I've ever felt for anyone, including myself.

David Levithan

#39. We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?

Tom Stoppard

#40. when straws are all you have, you grasp them. There

Stephen King

#41. You know crazy straws - they go all over the place? These straws are sane. They never lost their mind. They say, "we're going straight to the mouth. That guy who takes a while to get there? He's crazy."

Mitch Hedberg

#42. Your lot in life? A lot is something you draw, like straws. It's chance. You didn't get this life by chance. You chose it on purpose. If you're dissatisfied from it, you can change it.

Jennifer Echols

#43. Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it.

Helen Waddell

#44. I missed the moment when time collapsed and memory was erased, replaced by finicky social experiments, lost in the blur of intoxication, sucked through multi-colored bendy-straws

Alex Gaskarth

#45. A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

#46. At their time of life they should be wearing trouser suits and baking cakes, maybe spending their days penning hand-written letters of complaint to newspapers. Not drinking alcopops with crude straws in them.

Matthew Crow

#47. I have a bad feeling about this," she said.
"We'll fake it. And if push comes to shove, we can just sing Goober Peas and waltz around."
"Rebecca might not find that very funny."
"Rebecca is a Northerner. You can tell because there aren't any cheese straws on the snack table.

Mary Jane Hathaway