“Happiness is a Slurpee and a hot pink straw.”
Jenny Han (1980) American writer
Source: It's Not Summer Without You
Catch Phrases
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“Happiness is a Slurpee and a hot pink straw.”
Jenny Han (1980) American writer
Source: It's Not Summer Without You
“815. In a long journey straw waighs.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Neither of us cares a straw for popularity.”
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
Remarks against personality cults from a letter to W. Blos (10 November 1877).
Context: Neither of us cares a straw for popularity. A proof of this is for example, that, because of aversion to any personality cult, I have never permitted the numerous expressions of appreciation from various countries with which I was pestered during the existence of the International to reach the realm of publicity, and have never answered them, except occasionally by a rebuke. When Engels and I first joined the secret Communist Society we made it a condition that everything tending to encourage superstitious belief in authority was to be removed from the statutes.
“Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness…”
Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) American author
"The Phoenix on the Sword" (1932)
“What men build, in the name of security, is built of straw.”
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
"Sand Dabs, Five"
Winter Hours (1999)
Mitch Hedberg (1968–2005) American stand-up comedian
Mitch All Together (2003)
“I would be — for no knowledge is worth a straw —
Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
The Dawn http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1612/ <br class="br">The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) <br class="br">Context: I would be ignorant as the dawn<br>That merely stood, rocking the glittering coach<br>Above the cloudy shoulders of the horses;<br>I would be — for no knowledge is worth a straw —<br>Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.