A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. Henry

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

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Alexander Pope

Companions are we, enlivened by a mighty gallop quickly sliding a harsh straw basket of sea foam gathered astride the tide.
Bradley Chicho

He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
Edmund Spenser

I 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 Sutherland

I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.
Boss Tweed

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
Lord Byron

Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows.
Robert Fortune

Obama specializes in knocking down straw men. "I reject the view that says our problems will simply take care of themselves," he said, implying that's the view of Republicans. It's the view of almost no one.
Fred Barnes

The 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 Briggs

The only tactic liberals have is to try to intimidate people into thinking that the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party is not a racist movement, period! If it were, why would the straw polls keep showing that the black guy is winning? That's a rhetorical question. Let me state it: The black guy keeps winning.
Herman Cain

The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.
Jack Dee

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

There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.
Coleman Young

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

When 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 Bremner