His answer trickled through my head like water through a…

“is the answer none of the above crouched in a hole like a mud-streaked fugitive everyday a different version of pouring it away like…

— David Gray - Songwriter

There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.

— Dorothy Parker

Hope has never trickled down, it has always sprung up.

— Naomi Klein

“He scrambled to grab a hose and pointed it at us. A pathetic stream of water trickled out. What are you going to do?…

— Jaye Wells

“My baptism was a slightly awkward affair. . . . The water trickled down my face and down my neck; though just a beakers…

— Yann Martel

The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that…

— Will Rogers

I think everything that I've ever played has somehow trickled down from Gene Krupa.

— Bill Ward

Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are…

— John Piper

Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.

— Gillian Jacobs

“hand-crank sieve.”

— Michael Kaye

The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.

— Michel de Certeau

We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor. [Lat., In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium, operam ludimus.]

— Plautus

The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of…

— Ben Sweetland

To waste one's breath; to pump into a sieve.

— Plautus

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

— Khalil Gibran