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Quotes About Haystack

A couple of rabbits were being chased by a pack of coyotes. They stopped in a haystack, and one rabbit said to the other, "We gonna make a run for it, or stay here and outnumber them?"
~ Red Skelton
Little boy blue, come blow your horn,The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn;But where is the boy who looks after the sheep?He's under the haystack fast asleep.Will you wake him? No, not I,For if I do, he'll be sure to cry.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
1) Selecting winning equity funds over the long term offers all the potential success of finding a needle in a haystack. (2) Selecting winning funds based on their performance over relatively short-term periods in the past is all too likely to lead, if not to disaster, at least to disappointment.
~ John C. Bogle
As Nassim Taleb, the author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, writes, "Big data may mean more information, but it also means more false information." And even when the information is not false, the problem is "that the needle comes in an increasingly larger haystack.
~ Arianna Huffington
The sheaves are in, the sun is setting, like a meteor, deep into the earth, and where is the one we love? the one who looked after us? He is under the haystack, fast asleep.
~ Sharon Olds
Sometimes the two of them had gone out in the night from his cabin to steal a watermelon or two from some farmer—stolen watermelons are sweeter—and brought them back where, on top of the haystack beside the cabin, they would eat the dripping hearts while bats flitted across the stars. His
~ Sheldon Vanauken
We're trying to find needles in the haystack, and the needles are going dark, and it's because of this phenomenon we can't track their movements.
~ Michael McCaul
Myron didn't know what he hoped to find here, but stumbling around blind was a big part of his so-called investigations. You don't so much painstakingly search for the needle in the haystack as haphazardly leap into various haystacks, barefoot and naked, and then flail wildly and hope that hey, ouch, there's a needle. Myron
~ Harlan Coben
Problem is, it'll be like looking for the crazy needle in a stack of needles. And nobody say 'haystack,'" she warned. "Because that's just stupid.
~ J.D. Robb
Even armed with my new information, this strip of city was still one large haystack. And Molly was still one small needle.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Being an app developer isn't at all like working at Apple. There is this huge haystack of apps, and even a very shiny needle can get lost in that haystack.
~ Bill Atkinson
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
The way grief takes many forms, as tears or pinwheels. The way the word haystack never conjures up the same image twice. The way we assume all tears taste the same. The way our sadness is plural, but grief is singular.
~ Victoria Chang
it'd be like looking for a needle in a burning haystack.' 'Oh, I've done that,' Mark said airily. 'It's a game we used to play, after we got rid of all our livestock and didn't need our hay no more. You throw a match into the haystack, give the fire a three-second head start, and begin looking. You can find the needle every time if you work quick
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix