Famous quotes containing the words straw and/or imitation:
“And then finally there’s your grandmother
Sweeping the dust of the nineteenth century
Into the twentieth, and your grandfather plucking
A straw out of the broom to pick his teeth.”
—Charles Simic (b. 1938)
“To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)