(72 quotes found)
“There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it”
Charles Edward Montague
“Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below”
John Dryden
“An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting”
William Cowper
“And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw”
Edmund Spenser
“There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.”
Coleman Young
“It was just the last straw for me. They are a multi-platinum band. What's the point of going after us?”
Pete Wentz
“A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.”
O. Henry
“I need nine wickets from this match, and you buggers had better start drawing straws to see who I don't get.”
Fred Trueman
“After my husband died, I felt like one of those spiraled shells washed upon the beach . . . Poke a straw through the twisting tunnel, around and around, and there is nothing there. No flesh. No life. Whatever lived there is dried up and gone.”
Lynn Caine
“This team, it all flows from me. I've got to keep it going. I'm the straw that stirs the drink.”
Reggie Jackson
