I can`t tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are creatures of despair.
- Joseph ConradI did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.
- Kiefer SutherlandOur fishermen believe they`re a forgotten industry. There`s so much pressure to keep the boats working and people feel the Fisheries Bill is the final straw.
- Michael WalshWhen you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.
- Rory BremnerWe experienced what I consider to be an extremely unlikely event. It was truly the straw that broke the camel`s back.
- Sam Jones(Comer, a paralegal wearing a straw hat, is reading a biography about) Father Joe ... so sharp, such a sharp writer.
- Tony HendraIf you blow through a straw and pinch one end, what happens? ... If the filter is clogged, the burner will still be burning at full capacity, but it won`t push as much heat through the house.
- Eric MillerThe Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle.
- Joe Bob BriggsGuido clung to this thought like a drowning man clutching at a straw. He was rich and famous now, he told himself, and wasn`t that what he`d always dreamed of?
- Michael Ende(DES MOINES, Iowa -- Plans for a live debate on the eve of Saturday`s Iowa straw poll have been canceled after only three candidates -- former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander, commentator Pat Buchanan and Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah -- agreed to participate. WOI-TV agreed to hold the debate only if six candidates signed on. It was also to be carried by KCAU-TV in Sioux City and WHBF-TV in the Quad Cities.) Obviously, we`re very disappointed given the fact that many of these candidates in their appearances throughout the state in recent times have stated that there ought to be forums, there ought to be debates for the candidates to air their views, ... When push came to shove and we presented a forum ... many of the candidates balked or simply didn`t respond.
- Jim ParkerTo us that was the last straw and we started attending City Council meetings asking the officials and the builder to take responsibility,
- David HernandezIf Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.
- Nikola TeslaBut if all these things were the bits of tinsel and straw I made my nest out of, the way I felt while I worked was strangely different.
- Albert GuerardIt`s the straw that broke the camel`s back, if the camel`s back is broken.
- Antonio CarluccioOften the straw that broke the camel`s back may be pretty little. Somebody may get upset about something that doesn`t appear to be related to what`s going on at the farm.
- Barbara DixonAn epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting
- William Cowper