Quotes About Straw

We had a lot of different personalities. Hoak was the straw boss. He just would not quit.

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.

My biggest fear in life is living Nativity scenes. I hide in cars and drive around looking at them. Something about it is really scary to me. What parent would put their child in there with mules and camels and straw?

Straw purchasing is illegal.

I use ordinary soap bubbles, the dime-store stuff, two wands and a plastic straw.

Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.

One gave oneself time, one lost oneself, one followed the sun, one fell asleep so often on a bed of straw, and now, how fresh is the memory of wind one might say that the rain hissed a long silence and it was as if in the evening gods were born but so small that the birds pecked them like grain.

Looking back, my abstinence was less a function of convictions and more because I was too much of a dork to be invited to parties. One doesn't stumble into many dens of iniquity on the way to a speech meet. Let's be real here. I'd have snorted rails off a hooker's ass if a preppy guy named Kip or Trip or Chip handed me the straw.

It was nothing, really; just a straw in the wind! But a straw in the wind shows which way the wind is blowing

Wind blew down the canyon like breath through a straw, pushing the scow forward and pleating the river ahead of them.

I would be ignorant as the dawn That merely stood, rocking the glittering coach Above the cloudy shoulders of the horses; I would be—for no knowledge is worth a straw Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.

emerged, the puncture wounds they'd caused oozing blood onto the straw.

Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.

as we sat in a dining room drinking martinis from big frozen glasses whose shape reminded me of the inverted, shellacked straw hats of the cyclo drivers.

So the taskmasters and foremen of the people went out and said to them, “This is what Pharaoh says: ëI am no longer giving you straw.

So the people scattered all over the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

Each one also brought to the required place their quotas of barley and straw for the chariot horses and other horses.

Let the prophet who has a dream retell it, but let him who has My word speak it truthfully. For what is straw compared to grain?” declares the LORD.