Strainer Quotes

“A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Peeps

“I took to heart what Isohar had taught us. He said that there are four types of readers. There is the reading sponge, the reading funnel, the reading colander, and the reading sieve. The sponge absorbs everything it comes into contact with; and it is evident he remembers much of it later, too. But he is not able to filter out what is most important. The funnel takes in what he reads at one end, while at the other, everything he's read pours out of him. The strainer lets through the wine and keeps the sediment; he ought not to read at all -- it would be infinitely better if he simply dedicated himself to some manual trade. The sieve, on the other hand, separates out the chaff, to give a result of only the finest grains.

'I want you to be like sieves, and to discard all that is not good or interesting,' Isohar would say to us.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

“If you don't use your life as a strainer from time to time, you will not get a beautiful and pure product.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih