One day, the old wise Socrates walks down the streets, when all of the sudden a man runs up to him "Socrates I have to tell you something about your friend who..." "Hold up" Socrates interrupts him "About the story you're about to tell me, did you pu...
It's normal for a sieve to have holes in it.
The affection of a child is like water in a sieve.
You cannot cover up the sun with a sieve.
Who sieves too much keeps the rubbish.
The sieve says to the needle, "You have a hole in your tail."
Storing milk in a sieve, you complain of bad luck?
When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. 'How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?' Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through.
Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. and yet... and yet you act as if there is some ideal order in the world, as if there is some.....
King George VI: ...a sieve of thisted siffles!
His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
Larry Lipton: Ted has a mind like a steel sieve.
Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.
Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.
They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.
She leaned out of the window slow and sleepy, and the light came through her nightdress like sand through a sieve.
If you read fast and read all, maybe some of the sand will stay in the sieve.
The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.
Dist. Atty. Adair: An hour ago, Rudy Linnekar had this town in his pocket. Coroner: Now you could strain him through a sieve.
