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The straw that broke the camels back was the 99-yard run.
MARK HOWARD It was the straw that broke the camel's back.
BILL HUTCHINSON![]()
It was the piece of straw that broke the camel's back.
UNKNOWN It was the piece of straw that broke the camel's back
PROVERB For me, the straw that broke the camel's back was just being there.
KOREY ROWE The restraining orders and the cancellation of classes was the straw that broke the camel's back.
DERRIK SOVAK It's the straw that broke the camel's back, if the camel's back is broken.
ELLEN TAYLOR We experienced what I consider to be an extremely unlikely event. It was truly the straw that broke ...
SAM JONES![]()
My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around ...
R. KELLY They're dealing with challenging kids all day long, and then no one's sleeping at night, ... It's li...
JUDITH OWENS They (police) found the soap machine a few days later, but it had been out in the rain. They shook a...
BARRY BELL Before the election, that information (that scientists were making public) could have been the straw...
JEFF RUCH I wanted to be a rock-and-roller, ... Not even a star, but one of the back -ups, like a Pip in Glady...
WALTER DELLINGER![]()
The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY Eugene wouldn't let the game end without getting one. He wanted to be the last straw that broke thei...
MIKE MANNINO That's just the straw that broke the camel's back. It would have to be more than that. There are tho...
LANNY BERMAN![]()
But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected t...
ANTHONY KIEDIS![]()
Even before coming into the industry, I was a big fan of Motown, the Jackson 5, Gladys Knight, the T...
STEPHANIE MILLS It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the enc...
NEIL TENNANT![]()
Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA![]()
Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all th...
WHITNEY HOUSTON Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU![]()
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD![]()
We can play now… just do that and that little piece of kinky thoughts… few perverts add and you ...
DEYTH BANGER It's the straw that broke the camel's back for some of them. If you're somebody who was already down...
JOEY RODRIGUEZ Brown came in and made a double play and then he made some big pitches in the last inning when he wa...
DENNY MCCROTTY![]()
And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?
...
No Face... a pe...
DEYTH BANGER Everyone was on their feet and he was so touched with their affection that he came back in the encor...
LAZARO MEGRET![]()
When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad...
IAN MCKELLEN![]()
Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat...
DADA BHAGWAN The biggest win in my career came when my back and the team's back was against the wall.
TOMMY BOWDEN![]()
There was a knight came riding by / In early spring, when the roads were dry; / And he heard that la...
WILLIAM MORRIS In the first half, I bet we had five or six shots go in, and then come out. The separation could hav...
MARK SANDSTROM![]()
A light broke in upon my brain, - / It was the carol of a bird; / It ceased, and then it came again,...
LORD BYRON [Along the way, Baker had recorded with Bobby Robinson, who had also worked with Elmore James and wa...
GEORGE BAKER![]()
False hope," she said. "Guess that's better then no hope at all.
JAMES DASHNER Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
JAMES C. DOBSON I don't like that it resulted in a fire -- that's not a part of our religion and our prophet. But we...
FOUAD TARABEINE![]()
When you find a song that you love, you just have to do it - why would I try to match it? When I wro...
BONNIE RAITT![]()
Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make ...
RICHARD CURTIS![]()
Jack Holloway told me he would get the son of a bitch who killed my child and the mate of my child,"...
JOHN SCALZI It wasn't until my late teens that I really got into soul music and then I was like 'Ooh, th...
REBECCA FERGUSON![]()
My old songs used to take place in Gothenburg; then, when I lived in Melbourne, the songs just natur...
JENS LEKMAN![]()
When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, ...
JIM DALE We've got businesses on the North Shore who have seen 30 per cent property tax increases on top of 4...
LAURA JONES I mean the whole church rejoiced — that was when they had 11 survivors. When they came back in and...
CHARLES GREEN I think when he lost his girlfriend that that was the last straw for him. She was his everything.
WILLIE SMITH When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was goi...
WILLIAM H. MACY![]()
I was dumped at my senior prom - I was 18 and in love. We danced all night, then she got back togeth...
CHRIS EVANS I would compare that to when I first started with the Montreal Canadiens; it was a big family then, ...
GUY LAFLEUR![]()
In the beginning, all I wanted to do was to be a singer and a dancer. That was my real groove, my re...
WESLEY SNIPES![]()
Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
SUSANE COLASANTI Concrete Boots and The Fighter were the last two songs we wrote. It seems to be the way that our new...
BEN WINDSOR I was in Cuba in the winter of 1937. I was playing in Cuba, and I'm in the shower, and I slipped...
LEON DAY Once, when I tried to calculate the height of the balcony, I broke my arm. Another time, I wanted to...
ADA YONATH![]()
I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18...
BEAR GRYLLS![]()
My biggest fear in life is living Nativity scenes. I hide in cars and drive around looking at them. ...
JOHN WATERS Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Italian wine was something rough and red that came in a straw-covered flask with a candle stuck in i...
NANCY HARMON JENKINS![]()
I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived i...
DANICA PATRICK I think I started doing covers when I was... what, like 9 or 10? I would always do the songs that I ...
SABRINA CARPENTER I was mad that the school was closing. I'd have to find new friends, ... most of my friends came bac...
MAURICE BROWN Price was down 3-0 to that guy, and then came back to strike him out.
CHARLES DAVIS As far as my putting, literally 10 minutes before I went out for my first round, this feel came back...
K.J. CHOI Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came a...
MAYA BEISER Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. B...
RICHARD CURTIS![]()
I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time...
TANA FRENCH![]()
I'm actually the son of Mary Guibert. My mother was born in the Panama Canal zone and came to Am...
JEFF BUCKLEY An event like this can be the proverbial straw that breaks the market's back.
JEFFREY HIRSCH Oi’m always noble, sir; it’s in my blood. ’As been ever since Oi ate that knight a few years b...
ELIZABETH HAYDON I asked if he knew who [Mississippi poet] Etheridge Knight was. He said no, and I told him until you...
JUDY PEISER It was therefore really more painful when the resistance came on because people came back from the b...
GEORGE DEMETRI![]()
I married my first boyfriend. We just married too young. No children. So that broke up. There were a...
LIANE MORIARTY The old cliche of the cartridges really was terribly important. It was the issue that broke the came...
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE![]()
The real mechanism is what this will do to the dollar. It may be the straw that breaks the camel's b...
PAUL WALKER![]()
The fact is that camels are far more intelligent than dolphins. They are so much brighter that they ...
TERRY PRATCHETT![]()
For those who have walked through the fires of hell and rather than fall to its flames, have emerged...
SHERRILYN KENYON My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when h...
ROALD DAHL When my sister and I came along, my father's political life was completely over. He ran for pres...
ANNE COX CHAMBERS I told him when he came back that I was going to treat them to a game, and I'm a man of my word. I'm...
DONNIE EDWARDS When I had my tryout, just from two days being in the ring, learning to bump, hit the ropes, and thi...
ROMAN REIGNS I saw 'The Empire Strikes Back' the week that it came out. My father was a huge 'Star Wa...
DONALD FAISON I think that was the shot that broke them. They were trying to take it [the momentum] from us, but h...
JUSTIN ROSE They really came back in game three. When Bray served 13 points in a row, that was the turning point...
LISA MILLER I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest wa...
KATE VOEGELE Then I came back and restarted at the UW that fall.
DANIEL J. EVANS![]()
Being around people like Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack. . . had a...
WHITNEY HOUSTON Thank goodness for Ron Robinson. We came out and lollygagged around in the first half. Quay Holloway...
HERBERT GREENE I was discovered in Paris when I was there on a school trip at the age of 13. After that, my mom cam...
MAUD WELZEN![]()
Thomas: Is it [my brain] fixed?
Brenda: It worked, judging from the fact that you're not trying...
JAMES DASHNER![]()
Elvis came along when I was 10. My father gave me a bass ukulele. I taught myself how to play from a...
BOB SEGER![]()
I've followed Brenda Bowen as she's moved from Henry Holt to Scholastic to Simon and Schuste...
VIRGINIA EUWER WOLFF When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was...
EMILY WATSON It shouldn't have mattered, not when Miel and the other girls in his class wore jeans more than they...
ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE![]()
It's not quite done. I'm hoping to finish the last of the songs while I'm down (in South America). I...
EDDIE VEDDER![]()
Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself ...
LUKE BRYAN![]()
In the beginning there was the Word. Then we broke it.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA the recordings became bigger than the songs, which I came to understand is a backwards way of doing ...
NEIL DIAMOND
MARK HOWARD It was the straw that broke the camel's back.
BILL HUTCHINSON
It was the piece of straw that broke the camel's back. UNKNOWN It was the piece of straw that broke the camel's back
PROVERB For me, the straw that broke the camel's back was just being there.
KOREY ROWE The restraining orders and the cancellation of classes was the straw that broke the camel's back.
DERRIK SOVAK It's the straw that broke the camel's back, if the camel's back is broken.
ELLEN TAYLOR We experienced what I consider to be an extremely unlikely event. It was truly the straw that broke ...
SAM JONES
My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around ... R. KELLY They're dealing with challenging kids all day long, and then no one's sleeping at night, ... It's li...
JUDITH OWENS They (police) found the soap machine a few days later, but it had been out in the rain. They shook a...
BARRY BELL Before the election, that information (that scientists were making public) could have been the straw...
JEFF RUCH I wanted to be a rock-and-roller, ... Not even a star, but one of the back -ups, like a Pip in Glady...
WALTER DELLINGER
The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY Eugene wouldn't let the game end without getting one. He wanted to be the last straw that broke thei...
MIKE MANNINO That's just the straw that broke the camel's back. It would have to be more than that. There are tho...
LANNY BERMAN
But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected t... ANTHONY KIEDIS
Even before coming into the industry, I was a big fan of Motown, the Jackson 5, Gladys Knight, the T... STEPHANIE MILLS It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the enc...
NEIL TENNANT
Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all th... WHITNEY HOUSTON Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD
We can play now… just do that and that little piece of kinky thoughts… few perverts add and you ... DEYTH BANGER It's the straw that broke the camel's back for some of them. If you're somebody who was already down...
JOEY RODRIGUEZ Brown came in and made a double play and then he made some big pitches in the last inning when he wa...
DENNY MCCROTTY
And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?...
No Face... a pe...
DEYTH BANGER Everyone was on their feet and he was so touched with their affection that he came back in the encor...
LAZARO MEGRET
When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad... IAN MCKELLEN
Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat... DADA BHAGWAN The biggest win in my career came when my back and the team's back was against the wall.
TOMMY BOWDEN
There was a knight came riding by / In early spring, when the roads were dry; / And he heard that la... WILLIAM MORRIS In the first half, I bet we had five or six shots go in, and then come out. The separation could hav...
MARK SANDSTROM
A light broke in upon my brain, - / It was the carol of a bird; / It ceased, and then it came again,... LORD BYRON [Along the way, Baker had recorded with Bobby Robinson, who had also worked with Elmore James and wa...
GEORGE BAKER
False hope," she said. "Guess that's better then no hope at all. JAMES DASHNER Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
JAMES C. DOBSON I don't like that it resulted in a fire -- that's not a part of our religion and our prophet. But we...
FOUAD TARABEINE
When you find a song that you love, you just have to do it - why would I try to match it? When I wro... BONNIE RAITT
Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make ...
RICHARD CURTIS
Jack Holloway told me he would get the son of a bitch who killed my child and the mate of my child,"... JOHN SCALZI It wasn't until my late teens that I really got into soul music and then I was like 'Ooh, th...
REBECCA FERGUSON
My old songs used to take place in Gothenburg; then, when I lived in Melbourne, the songs just natur... JENS LEKMAN
When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, ... JIM DALE We've got businesses on the North Shore who have seen 30 per cent property tax increases on top of 4...
LAURA JONES I mean the whole church rejoiced — that was when they had 11 survivors. When they came back in and...
CHARLES GREEN I think when he lost his girlfriend that that was the last straw for him. She was his everything.
WILLIE SMITH When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was goi...
WILLIAM H. MACY
I was dumped at my senior prom - I was 18 and in love. We danced all night, then she got back togeth... CHRIS EVANS I would compare that to when I first started with the Montreal Canadiens; it was a big family then, ...
GUY LAFLEUR
In the beginning, all I wanted to do was to be a singer and a dancer. That was my real groove, my re... WESLEY SNIPES
Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l... SUSANE COLASANTI Concrete Boots and The Fighter were the last two songs we wrote. It seems to be the way that our new...
BEN WINDSOR I was in Cuba in the winter of 1937. I was playing in Cuba, and I'm in the shower, and I slipped...
LEON DAY Once, when I tried to calculate the height of the balcony, I broke my arm. Another time, I wanted to...
ADA YONATH
I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18... BEAR GRYLLS
My biggest fear in life is living Nativity scenes. I hide in cars and drive around looking at them. ... JOHN WATERS Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Italian wine was something rough and red that came in a straw-covered flask with a candle stuck in i...
NANCY HARMON JENKINS
I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived i... DANICA PATRICK I think I started doing covers when I was... what, like 9 or 10? I would always do the songs that I ...
SABRINA CARPENTER I was mad that the school was closing. I'd have to find new friends, ... most of my friends came bac...
MAURICE BROWN Price was down 3-0 to that guy, and then came back to strike him out.
CHARLES DAVIS As far as my putting, literally 10 minutes before I went out for my first round, this feel came back...
K.J. CHOI Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came a...
MAYA BEISER Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. B...
RICHARD CURTIS
I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time... TANA FRENCH
I'm actually the son of Mary Guibert. My mother was born in the Panama Canal zone and came to Am... JEFF BUCKLEY An event like this can be the proverbial straw that breaks the market's back.
JEFFREY HIRSCH Oi’m always noble, sir; it’s in my blood. ’As been ever since Oi ate that knight a few years b...
ELIZABETH HAYDON I asked if he knew who [Mississippi poet] Etheridge Knight was. He said no, and I told him until you...
JUDY PEISER It was therefore really more painful when the resistance came on because people came back from the b...
GEORGE DEMETRI
I married my first boyfriend. We just married too young. No children. So that broke up. There were a... LIANE MORIARTY The old cliche of the cartridges really was terribly important. It was the issue that broke the came...
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
The real mechanism is what this will do to the dollar. It may be the straw that breaks the camel's b... PAUL WALKER
The fact is that camels are far more intelligent than dolphins. They are so much brighter that they ... TERRY PRATCHETT
For those who have walked through the fires of hell and rather than fall to its flames, have emerged... SHERRILYN KENYON My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when h...
ROALD DAHL When my sister and I came along, my father's political life was completely over. He ran for pres...
ANNE COX CHAMBERS I told him when he came back that I was going to treat them to a game, and I'm a man of my word. I'm...
DONNIE EDWARDS When I had my tryout, just from two days being in the ring, learning to bump, hit the ropes, and thi...
ROMAN REIGNS I saw 'The Empire Strikes Back' the week that it came out. My father was a huge 'Star Wa...
DONALD FAISON I think that was the shot that broke them. They were trying to take it [the momentum] from us, but h...
JUSTIN ROSE They really came back in game three. When Bray served 13 points in a row, that was the turning point...
LISA MILLER I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest wa...
KATE VOEGELE Then I came back and restarted at the UW that fall.
DANIEL J. EVANS
Being around people like Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack. . . had a... WHITNEY HOUSTON Thank goodness for Ron Robinson. We came out and lollygagged around in the first half. Quay Holloway...
HERBERT GREENE I was discovered in Paris when I was there on a school trip at the age of 13. After that, my mom cam...
MAUD WELZEN
Thomas: Is it [my brain] fixed?Brenda: It worked, judging from the fact that you're not trying...
JAMES DASHNER
Elvis came along when I was 10. My father gave me a bass ukulele. I taught myself how to play from a... BOB SEGER
I've followed Brenda Bowen as she's moved from Henry Holt to Scholastic to Simon and Schuste... VIRGINIA EUWER WOLFF When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was...
EMILY WATSON It shouldn't have mattered, not when Miel and the other girls in his class wore jeans more than they...
ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE
It's not quite done. I'm hoping to finish the last of the songs while I'm down (in South America). I... EDDIE VEDDER
Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself ... LUKE BRYAN
In the beginning there was the Word. Then we broke it. LJUPKA CVETANOVA the recordings became bigger than the songs, which I came to understand is a backwards way of doing ...
NEIL DIAMOND
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness an... 
Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because... 
Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy an... 
So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering. 
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his... 
The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well. 
I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on. 
I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how th... 
I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end. 
The growth of earnings per share this year does not justify the 100 percent shares increase. 
Brother, if you want to get the lowdown, Come along and let's all have a hoedown. 