Top 100 Straw Quotes
#1. There was always something in me to catch fire, in this heap of straw that I have been.
Franz Kafka
#2. An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
William Cowper
#3. Then she broke down and cried onto the flowery wrapping paper. Melanie put her arms around the poor, thin body. What is Aunt Margaret made of? Birdbones and tissue paper. spun glass and straw.
Angela Carter
#5. At Dresden on the Elbe, that handsome city,
Where straw hats, verses, and cigars are made,
They've built (it well may make us feel afraid,)
A music club and music warehouse pretty.
Heinrich Heine
#7. Then, who is Matilda?' I asked.
Toby tilted his cup and poked at the slush with his straw. 'I suppose Matilda's the girl who felt like home.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#8. I hardly think a girl is much of a threat. I presume you searched her for weapons? But if she attempts to suffocate me with her straw mattress, I promise to call out for help.
Mary Hoffman
#10. The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe.
Remy De Gourmont
#11. What the hell? Jack was over six feet tall and two hundred pounds with arms like a steel beam. He couldn't get away from that pasty-faced piece of painted pine straw? What a guy. I wanted to punch him in the mouth.
Fletcher McHale
#12. The marketing people are always talking about something called 'consumers'. I have this image of a fat little man in baggy Bermuda shorts, a Hawaiian shirt, and a straw hat with beer-can openers dangling from it, clutching fistfuls of dollars.
Robert James Waller
#13. The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.
Frederick Lenz
#14. The king greeted the document (the Collectanea) not so much as a drowning man greets a straw but as he might a rescue party from outer space.
Eric Ives
#15. 'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on immigration. If you enjoy platitudinous straw men but are turned off by open debate and constitutional order, this speech was for you.
David Harsanyi
#16. Then they, too, lay down on mattresses stuffed with straw, hearing the music of the flies to buzz them to sleep, holding each other's hands as they dozed, thinking of the miracles by which love works its will in the world.
Orson Scott Card
#18. She's my best friend, and I know she means well, but as she talks I'm mentally calculating all the ways I could silence her. I'm bigger than her ... I wonder if I could use my straw for some sort of MacGyver inspired weapon.
Steph Campbell
#19. My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.
Steve Sabol
#20. Australian schools have cool uniforms. I wish I had to wear a woven straw hat for maths.
Harry Styles
#21. Companions are we, enlivened by a mighty gallop quickly sliding a harsh straw basket of sea foam gathered astride the tide.
Bradley Chicho
#22. Getting started is the most difficult thing to do; once you file it out, they rest of the journey is as soft as the straw. Be a good beginner.
Israelmore Ayivor
#23. Every man's life is a train made of straw which tries to move on a track made of fire! The very next stop is ashes and dust.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#24. Scarecrow: I haven't got a brain ... only straw.
Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?
Scarecrow: I don't know ... But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking ... don't they?
Dorothy: Yes, I guess you're right.
L. Frank Baum
#25. I'm your ride out to the Double T," Beau said, gripping the edge of his white straw cowboy hat and tipping it in a cordial gesture. She ground the heels of her low pumps into the soft tar to contain her growing irritation. Did he think she was an idiot? "No way.
Lisa Mondello
#27. I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
John Buchan
#28. Let us not lose the Bible, but with diligence, in fear and invocation of God, read and preach it. While that remains and flourishes, all prospers with the state; 'tis head and empress of all arts and faculties. Let but divinity fall, and I would not give a straw for the rest.
Martin Luther
#29. If you move to the West Coast, I will make a gun out of this," she said, drunkenly brandishing a tiny straw before searching the rest of the cluttered table, "and these peanuts and this glass and shoot you in the dick, Will."
I winced at the visual. "Wow-" I began.
"In the dick, Will.
Christina Lauren
#30. Lina liked going to the market plaza. It was always alive with people and animals, and the market had things she'd never seen before-sandals made of old truck tires, hats and baskets woven of straw.
Jeanne DuPrau
#31. Donald reached for the straw and steered it toward her lips. Such dangerous lips. They would tell him anything, keep him confused, use him so that she might feel less hollow, less alone.
Hugh Howey
#32. The tinkle of a wind chime stirred from over a window. Purple and white phlox cascaded cheerfully over the top of a nearby stone wall. Sunlight sifted through the weave of her straw hat, casting freckles of light on her nose and cheeks that shifted, out of focus, as she walked.
Caragh M. O'Brien
#33. When your opponent sets up a straw man, set it on fire and kick the cinders around the stage. Don't worry about losing the Strawperson- American community vote.
James Lileks
#34. Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on Earth.
John Wesley
#35. We ran hunched along a subterranean corridor, discarded animal bones underfoot, the ceiling brushing our heads, past things I tried not to see - a slumped figure in a corner, sleepers shivering on miserable mats of straw, a boy in rags lying on the ground with a beggar's pail bangled around one arm.
Ransom Riggs
#36. Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.
Margaret George
#37. The merit of the cross does not consist in its heaviness, but in the manner in which we carry it. I would even say that it is sometimes more virtuous to carry a cross of straw than a heavy cross because we have to be more attentive for fear of losing it.
Saint Francis De Sales
#38. emerged, the puncture wounds they'd caused oozing blood onto the straw.
John McEvoy
#39. A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
Alexander Pope
#40. Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.
George Herbert
#41. Without love I was one who had lost the way; of a sudden love entered. I was a mountain; I became a straw for the horse of the king.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#43. Go on, live in your poultry-yard. Scratch straw and cluck and cackle at everything that you take for a fox. [Exit.
W.B.Yeats
#44. Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Alexander Pope
#45. He sat desiring the girl - a speed-hardened straw-colored junkie stewardess, a spoiled Augustana Lutheran, compounded of airport Muzak and beauty parlor school. Her eyes were fouled with smog and propane spray.
Robert Stone
#46. The captain's sister-in-law had traded her mechanic's coveralls for a colorful shirt, shorts, and a huge straw hat. She looked like a tourist, and because I'm the helpful sort, I told her so.
Rachel Bach
#47. And then I noticed the small cake that still sat uneaten next to him. And another in front of his mother. That was the last straw. I fully disliked them. How dare they leave perfectly good cake untouched?
Tarun Shanker
#48. The Left masks its distaste for the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality in a straw man argument that Bible believers are violent bigots. They are not. Citing the Bible doesn't make you a bigot against human beings - it makes you a bigot against sin, which is a good thing.
Ben Shapiro
#49. University lectures are an obsolete practice inherited from the Middle Ages when books were scarce. Students should read, not listen. To swallow instruction from a lectern is like sipping through a straw. Lectures pander to the vanity of the lecturer and stimulate conflict between academics.
Virginia Woolf
#50. You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas ... You cannot make bricks without straw.
Arnold Bennett
#51. (..) and they would imprint upon each other's lips such a long and languishing kiss, that a little straw cigar might have been smoked during the time it lasted.
Nikolai Gogol
#52. Won't say anything, won't burst into tears and buckle under the weight of this last, awful straw.
Laura Wiess
#53. A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. Henry
#54. Hedge put a drinking straw next to Nico's mouth. "Have some Gatorade."
"I-I don't want-"
"You'll have some Gatorade," the coach insisted.
Nico had some Gatorade.
Rick Riordan
#55. I was the governor that drew a tough, tough straw. I was governor during the worst recession since the 1930s, and I had to cut $5 billion from the state budget.
Tim Kaine
#56. Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the very skies with its lasting, inextinguishable laughter.
Boris Sidis
#57. Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.
Carol Ann Duffy
#58. I'm sorry Finn. I'm a wooden-headed dummy.'
Don't be so hard on yourself,' said Finn. 'You're just a straw-brained scarecrow.
Shannon Hale
#59. She had spears of straw and grass in her hair, not like Ophelia gone mad through contact with Hamlet's madness, but because she had slept in some stable loft.
Victor Hugo
#60. Do not give dalliance too much rein; the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in the blood.
William Shakespeare
#61. Chad has oil wells, so there are a few grand hotels for rich, who come to quickly take the money away before it ruins the charm of our mud and straw cities.
Daoud Hari
#62. Isabelle chewed thoughtfully on her straw. 'That new lead singer they have is hot. Is he single? I'd like to ride him around town like a bad, bad pony-
Cassandra Clare
#63. But I do not want people to call me a fool, and if my head stays stuffed with straw instead of with brains, as yours is, how am I ever to know anything?" "I
L. Frank Baum
#64. Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers.
John Donne
#65. There was no safe place in all the world for me. My stomach was filled with ice water. Hearing Domini was the final straw. Something in me broke. All the King's horses and all the King's men would never be able to put me back together again.
Damien Echols
#66. If this is a war, my side has the nuclear bomb. We have K Street. We have Wall Street. Debbie doesn't have anybody. I want a government that is responsive to the people who got the short straw in life.
Warren Buffett
#67. A straw enables you to drink without using your wrist. A straw is your friend - until you lose eye contact with the straw. Then it will betray you and make you look like an idiot.
Demetri Martin
#68. A time will come, when fields will be manured with a solution of glass (silicate of potash), with the ashes of burnt straw, and with the salts of phosphoric acid, prepared in chemical manufactories, exactly as at present medicines are given for fever and goitre.
Justus Von Liebig
#69. It was fate, I thought. Just fate. We think we control our own lives, but the gods play with us like children playing with straw dolls.
Bernard Cornwell
#70. First time was instinct. I hear O'Leary go, "Jesus," and there's a skinny brown dog lapping up blood the same way he'd lap up water from a bowl. It wasn't American blood, but still, there's that dog, lapping it up. And that's the last straw, I guess, and then it's open season on dogs.
Phil Klay
#71. I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause. For in truth, we who are creatures of impulse, are creatures of despair.
Joseph Conrad
#72. Yes, a good swipe at head height would kill ... some mother's son, some sister's brother, some lad who'd followed the drum for a shilling and his first new suit. If only he'd been trained, if only she'd had a few weeks stabbing straw men until she could believe that all men were made of straw.
Terry Pratchett
#73. I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.
Kiefer Sutherland
#74. If I can't suck your milkshake through a straw, it's not a milkshake
it's a glass of ice cream.
Bill Maher
#75. Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.
William Shakespeare
#76. The best is when we all go at once, like an army of interrelated popcorn zombies who laugh the same laughs and gasp the same gasps and aren't so germ-phobic with each other that we won't share a ginormous Coke with one straw. Family is useful like that.
Rachel Cohn
#77. There are going to be animals in Heaven. The prophet Isaiah said that the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, ... and the lion shall eat straw like the ox (Isaiah 11:6-9).
David Berg
#78. A Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe.
Peter Cave
#80. The here-and-now mountain
is a tiny piece of a piece of straw
blown off into emptiness.
Rumi
#81. Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary
Dante Alighieri
#82. If Adie wanted to drink her blood and could give her the answers she needed, Tori would provide the straw herself.
Bethany K. Lovell
#83. And he said, "The joy of scaring is a deep and lasting one, and I never tire of it."
Said I, after a minute of thought, "It is true; for I too have known that joy."
Said he, "Only those who are stuffed with straw can know it.
Kahlil Gibran
#84. Hey, new girl. You know the straw that broke the camel's back? Is that the same thing as the last straw?
Stephanie Danler
#85. Ribbons," he said, "should be considered as clothes, which are the mark of a human being. All animals should go naked."
When Boxer heard this he fetched the small straw hat which he wore in summer to keep the flies out of his ears, and flung it on to the fire with the rest.
George Orwell
#86. And the nightmare-monster of her childhood revealed itself to be a thing of old clothes stuffed with straw.
Mercedes Lackey
#87. Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
Susan B. Anthony
#88. Gentlemen," returned Mr. Micawber, "do with me as you will! I am a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am tossed in all directions by the elephants- I beg your pardon; I should have said the elements.
Charles Dickens
#89. One of the reasons we think this market will start to run out of gas at some point is that you've essentially created as much gold from straw as you can from this financial alchemy
Scott Simon
#90. When I was a kid I got no respect. My mother breast fed me through a straw.
Rodney Dangerfield
#91. When the Internet really first started to hit, people felt this would be the death blow: after suburbs and long commutes and television and the death of the family dinner, this would be the last straw that would totally break society.
Alex Steffen
#92. 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
#93. Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
Jonathan Swift
#94. But performing in The Room was, by this point, like drinking the very last dregs of something through a ting straw: It took a lot of effort and you barely tasted it.
Greg Sestero
#95. A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
Thomas More
#96. I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
Aaron Sorkin
#97. Stress can wear away at you for a long time, and the last straw can be the smallest thing.
Joshua Guess
#98. Buy straw hats in the winter, when nobody wants them, and sell them in the summer when everybody needs them.
Kenneth L. Fisher
#99. It seems the most common thing for serial interventionists to do these days is to lob the term 'isolationist' at anyone who does not agree with their latest folly, and then set up a straw man about those people not wanting to be involved in the world.
Rand Paul
#100. God is so omnipresent ... God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
John Donne
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