Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw. — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw. — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a… — John Donne Copy Share Image
[Calling you a] star is just a trick. It's like a straw man thing. They [people] set you up just to knock… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Busta Rhymes the mighty infamous, Always misbehaving and mischeivous, Causing aggravation, I'll never pause, Pushing out spit balls through plastic straws. — Busta Rhymes Copy Share Image
Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The whole point of straws, I had thought, was that you did not have to set down the slice of pizza to… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
There is nothing a pig loves more than a good bath, with a loofah and plenty of soap flakes ... There is… — Barbara Woodhouse Copy Share Image
The bible is the cradle that holds the Christ, without him it is nothing more than wood and straw. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
After my husband died, I felt like one of those spiraled shells washed upon the beach... Poke a straw through the twisting… — Lynn Caine Copy Share Image
A time will come, when fields will be manured with a solution of glass (silicate of potash), with the ashes of burnt… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
Don't condemn the gangbangers, they've got guns that are trafficked, that are not enforced, that are straw purchased and they come into… — Sheila Jackson Lee Copy Share Image
Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room As though dried straw, and if we… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The coward wants resolution, which the brave man can do without. He recognizes no faith above a creed, thinking this straw by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To say that the vote fraud conspiracy theorists are tilting at windmills is an understatement. They're using a legitimate public process to… — George Voinovich Copy Share Image
I think the fact that this was a essentially a person under [China] protection and the North Koreans went and assassinated [Kim… — Christopher R. Hill Copy Share Image
The film [the white Ribbon] does try to use German Fascism as an example, but not specifically Fascism... the results of German… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Climate experts say we should tell villagers in developing countries to reduce the amount of cooking smoke they generate to help fix… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause, it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasion:… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
In fact, books are still being published by the lunatic fringe with the same explanation. In case this book should be read… — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
Herman Cain is probably well liked by some of the Republicans because it hides the racist elements of the Republican Party. Conservative… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is. — John Selden Copy Share Image
Do not give dalliance too much rein; the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in the blood. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, And hold-fast is the only dog. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Australian schools have cool uniforms. I wish I had to wear a woven straw hat for maths. — Harry Styles Copy Share Image
I could spend my life focusing on getting rid of straws in our society. — Laurie David Copy Share Image