If 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 Tesla
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Furthermore, there is always the fear that one more building boom will be the straw that breaks the camel's back. We remind investors that the cruise sectors maintained for many years that new supply would create demand until it didn't in 2000-2003.
Steve Kent
We have the Indiana Jones hat covered in both the wool felt and the straw. But people will come in and see what we have and pick what they like.
Tony Badame
I think the Kennedy thing was just the last straw. There's not even one Republican in the state to be qualified as chief of staff?
Mike Spence
I'm just going to spread this straw in here to give them a warm, dry place. If it wasn't going to be this cold, we wouldn't put anything in here.
Rick Van Dyken
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 Conrad
The secretary-general welcomes the initiative of the British Foreign Secretary, H.E. Mr. Jack Straw, to undertake a mission to Cyprus, Greece and Turkey this week.
Stephanie Dujarric
It's usually the last straw for families caring for an elderly person.
Aniela Orr
I'm done. I'm tired of boxing and last week's bad decision was the last straw. I'm sorry if my actions sometimes upset people.
Norman Stone
I think all of the airlines will feel this. It's a little more than a blip, but New Orleans and Gulfport alone is not going to put Delta into bankruptcy. I think $70 a barrel oil is the straw that would break the camel's back.
Terry Trippler
For them this is a final straw, the final symbol of Soviet greatness.
Steve Harrigan
There's obviously been a variety of issues swirling around the banks and the big broker dealers, and this is yet one more straw.
Diane Glossman
It's not the mud hut and straw-built structure one might think of.
Brad Taylor
An event like this can be the proverbial straw that breaks the market's back.
Jeffrey Hirsch
For me, the straw that broke the camel's back was just being there.
Korey Rowe
There has been a long-term decline with the proportion of adults and children registered with a dentist falling for the best part of 15 years. We are getting a lot of feedback from dentists saying that the new contract is the last straw and that they are thinking of closing their doors to NHS patients.
Steve Webb
That was it, that was the last straw.
Thomas Carter
The restraining orders and the cancellation of classes was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Derrik Sovak
The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.
Remy De Gourmont
That was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Mark Stutz
Our 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 Walsh
The last straw would be when I told them that I had been having suicidal thoughts, ... But once again, I was the one who wanted to get help; I initiated it.
Stephen Hopkins
The political consequences of deliberately telling untruths are very serious, and we have made it very clear here that we don't send people to countries that practice torture. Jack Straw (Britain's foreign minister) said that to Parliament.
David Bentley
Didn't the lion of Islam, the Mujahid Shaykh Osama bin Laden, may Allah protect him, offer you a truce so that you might depart from the Islamic lands? But you were obstinate and were led by arrogance to more crime and your foreign secretary, Jack Straw, said these proposals deserve to be met with contempt.
Ayman Al zawahiri
I think maybe that was the final straw that made her realize that the Commonwealth was going to be able to prove the case and to act in her best interest was to take some responsibility and be willing to testify against any codefendants.
Attorney Wes Nance
To us that was the last straw and we started attending City Council meetings asking the officials and the builder to take responsibility.
David Hernandez
Often 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.
Sherry Nelson
When you go to harvest some, lift the straw, remove the (dirt-free) spuds you need, and replace the straw to let the others continue to grow and form. Nifty, huh?
Gary Schuldt
Katrina and oil prices are simply the straw that broke the camel's back. Delta was going to file anyway. And Northwest was playing chicken with its unions. It seems to me they didn't do nearly enough and waited much too long. They thought they could just ride it out. But the rise in oil prices upset everyone's plans.
Michael Roach
[Comer, a paralegal wearing a straw hat, is reading a biography about] Father Joe ... so sharp, such a sharp writer.
Tony Hendra
When I spoke to him he wasn't respectful. He just chewed on a straw when I asked him to take it out of his mouth.
Carol Hansen
To conjure up such ridiculous questions, the answers to which we all know or should know are in the negative, is to build up a whimsical and farcical straw man which is not only grim but Grimm.
Tom C. Clark
Even if there were straw sales, straw man sales being made from dealers, that doesn't prove that the dealer was doing anything wrong. There's no evidence from tracing, because of the problems with tracing, that dealers are selling guns unlawfully. The trace couldn't indicate that and, in fact, doesn't indicate that.
Richard Gardiner
The quarterback has to be on board because that's kind of the straw that stirs the drink. I didn't quite get it.
Brad Childress
In their native land, pythons hang around wading bird rookeries. Our wading bird populations have declined because of insults we've done to their environment, and here we're throwing another insult at them. We're trying to restore their populations, but this could be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
Skip Snow
I think we're just playing the ultimate team game and so everybody has to be on board. Specifically, the quarterback has to be on board because that's kind of the straw that stirs the drink, if you will. You have to feel that, it has to be ringing through. I didn't quite get it.
Brad Childress
It was the final straw for a lot of voters.
Dietmar Herz
That, according to defense attorneys, was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Tarik Minor
Imagine trying to breathe through a straw for hours on end. These patients are extremely scared.
Dr. Martin Lutz
Idaho is perfect because of our climate. We have a drier climate and we can then supply dry straw for the first plant.
Duane Grant
I don't see why we should not invite (U.S. Defense Secretary) Donald Rumsfeld, (British Foreign Secretary) Jack Straw, (EU foreign policy chief) Javier Solana, and other foreign and defense ministers.
Sarah Ludford
That's just the straw that broke the camel's back. It would have to be more than that. There are thousands or millions of people in debt who don't kill themselves.
Lanny Berman
There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.
Coleman Young
There is reason to believe that her death was a setback for his health. It was probably the last straw.
Hans Knoetze
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
Small and fat and constantly facetious, straw- coloured and destitute of marks, he would have been practically indistinguishable hadn't his constant preference for light-grey clothes, for white hats, for very big cigars and very little stories, done what it could for his identity.
Henry James
HMOs and insurers pumping up their coffers at the detriment to seniors is a blight on the Medicare prescription drug benefit and is the last straw of their looting and pillaging of health care.
Jerry Flanagan
If a man knew where he would fall, he would spread straw there first.
Finnish Proverb
A family from Boxborough that only eats organic and even mills their own grains comes in for organic chocolate. A couple from Stow that is building a straw-bale house comes in for magazines and other things.
Didi Chadran
ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.
Ambrose Bierce
They're dealing with challenging kids all day long, and then no one's sleeping at night, ... It's like the straw that broke the camel's back.
Judith Owens
Guido 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
It's clear from the beginning that this is not a real science discussion. This is a showcase for intelligent design. They have created a straw man. They are trying to make science stand for atheism so they can fight atheism.
Jack Krebs
The other team is trying to set up a straw man with Tim, but I doubt anyone here is going to be running around talking about Dr. Dobson, and his name ID is higher. I'm hoping we can talk about the issues and not have this dueling.
Sean Duffy
It was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Bill Hutchinson
That kind of was the straw that broke the camel's back. We never expected him to pop out of there and go the whole way like that. You don't draw that up.
Martin Tobias
Failure to push the budget through could be the straw that breaks Mori's back.
Richard Gibbs
We sparked a new industry. Straw all of a sudden became a valuable commodity.
John Byers
Reed thatch lasts much longer than long straw, so we won't have to replace it quite so frequently. We don't want to take more from nature than we have to.
John Beavan
If 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 Miller
It's the straw that broke the camel's back, if the camel's back is broken.
Ellen Taylor
And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
Edmund Spenser
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