Straws Quotes - Page 8

• When you're standing in deep water
  And you're bailing yourself out with a straw
  And when you're drowning in deep water
  And you wake up making love to a wall
  Well it's these little time that help to remind
  It's nothing without love, love, love

  Jewel

  Song, Wall, Deep Water

  Song: Deep Water, Album: Spirit, 1998

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

  Robert E. Howard

  Darkness, Wit

  Robert E. Howard (2016). “Fantastical Tales - The Ultimate Collection of Sword & Sorcery Action-Adventures, Time Travel & Mythical Worlds: Conan the Barbarian Series, The ‘Kull the Conqueror” Stories, The ‘Solomon Kane’ Saga, The ‘Bran Mak Morn’ Stories, The ‘Turlogh Dubh O'Brien’ Stories & The ‘James Allison’ Stories”, p.735, e-artnow

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• If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art no better than a fly. Conquer thy heart that thou mayest become somebody.

  Aziz Ansari

  Art, Air, Water

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• 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

  Hair, Devil, Amber

  'An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot' (1735) l. 169

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• Do not give dalliance too much rein; the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in the blood.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Blood, Giving

  William Shakespeare (1797). “Works, containing his plays and poems: to which is added a glossary”, p.56

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• I'm thinking about anything and everything. I'm making stuff up in my head, I'm using sense memory. Sometimes when it doesn't come and you've got no choice because you're getting paid to do it, you grasp at straws. It's always easy now with my kids. I just create some "what-ifs" in my head, something horrible that would devastate me as a mother.

  Vera Farmiga

  Mother, Memories, Kids

  "Q&A: Bates Motel's Vera Farmiga on the Terrors of Parenthood". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2014.

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• 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

  Lying, Animal, Heaven

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• Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.

  Brenda Holloway

  Song, Knights, Camels

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

  Mos Def

  Rap, Hip Hop, Secret

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• When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and shall put your foot within the march of eternity, all the good things of your short nightdream shall seem to you like ashes of a blaze of thorns or straw.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Christian, Blessing, Race

  Samuel Rutherford (1761). “Letters, Now Divided Into Three Parts: The First Containing Those which Were Written from Aberdeen”, p.308

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• About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number of days, the wind increasing to a gale. The waves rose high, but I had a good ship. Still, in the dismal fog I felt myself drifting into loneliness, an insect on the straw in the midst of the elements.

  Joshua Slocum

  Loneliness, Fog, Wind

  Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.238, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there and will reappear.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Stars, Sleep, Light

  Thomas Carlyle (1876). “The Carlyle Anthology”, p.253

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• I can think of few things more disastrous than starting a new correspondence with any one. Letters are a burden indeed ... they seem often the last straw that breaks the back ... you should see the piles of those that I must answer that litter and weight my writing table.

  Rose Macaulay

  Writing, Thinking, Tables

  Rose Macaulay (Dame.), John Hamilton Cowper Johnson (1963). “Last letters to a friend, 1952-1958”

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• Almost every time i saw you, you were with him. But one day, you walked up to the building alone. I was holding the door for several girls in front of you, and i waited for you to catch up. When you reached me, you look pleased, and a little surprised. Unlike the others, you didn't expect the door to be held for you by some random guy. You smiled up at me and said, 'Thank you.' That was the last straw. I prayed you 'd never come to a session, and not with him. I didn't want you to know i was the tutor.

  Tammara Webber

  Girl, Doors, Guy

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

  Tom Stoppard

  Men, Bricks, Drowning

  Tom Stoppard (2007). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, p.108, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Yeah,” Nicole said, her straw noisily hitting the bottom of her Gut Buster. “Well, I would have appreciated it if you guys had wrecked a little less stuff. Because my house smelled like smoke for months. And construction on the Tarantinos’ new garage starts at eight on the dot every morning, and it’s still going on, and you know how I get if I don’t have my full ten hours of beauty sleep.” “So that’s what happened to your face,” Cody said. “I was wondering.

  Meg Cabot

  Morning, Sleep, Eight

  Meg Cabot (2011). “Abandon”, p.186, Scholastic Inc.

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• Mister Straw hat is going to be an enemy of mine but even a bond of enmity is still a bond.-Trafalgar Law

  Eiichiro Oda

  Law, Enemy, Enmity

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• Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted in the spring died. The patch of grass in front of the house abandoned its ambitions to become a lawn and turned into the dirty yellow of poor straw. The earth shrank, revealing its knuckles and bones, rocks and roots that had been invisible before.

  Peter Mayle

  Spring, Rain, Dirty

  Peter Mayle (2001). “Toujours Provence”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• 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

  Fate, Water, Swim

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.279

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• A master of straw eates a servant of steele.

  George Herbert

  Masters, Servant

  George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.274

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• Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

  Lord Dunsany

  Memories, Imagination, Bricks

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• I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

  John Buchan

  Life, Wisdom, Believe

  John Buchan (2016). “The Complete Works of John Buchan (Unabridged): Thriller Classics, Spy Novels, Supernatural Tales, Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Works, The Great War Writings, Essays, Biographies & Memoirs – All in One Volume”, p.1830, e-artnow

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• 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

  Prayer, Fire, Light

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• Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Character, Building Up, Levers

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1848). “Gems from Tupper: Consisting of Extracts from the Following Works: Proverbial Philosophy; Thousand Lines; Twins; Hactenus; An Authr's Mind; Geraldine, and Other Poems; Heart; Crock of Gold; and Probabilities, an Aid to Faith”, p.189

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• Pardon me," I answered, as I placed a bundle of straw upon the fire and slightly stirred it. Then I turned quickly but already we had passed out of sight of La Muette. Astonished I cast a glance towards the river. I perceived the confluence of the Oise. And naming the principal bends of the river by the places nearest them, I cried, "Passy, St. Germain, St. Denis, Sevres!"

  Francois Laurent d'Arlandes

  Airplane, Fire, Sight

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