Streak Quotes - page 3

A certain cynicism, born of the life she has led; a streak of strange wisdom; the wistfulness behind the gaiety; sometimes fear; and nearly always the memory of loneliness that hurts the soul. (Georgette Heyer)
. never in my life I have seen such a truly sad thing [an atmosphere at Wolfheze ]. A mother heartbroken about the loss of her only child is nothing compared to this. A broad streak or strip in front of you, which becomes blacker and blacker towards the horizon. a mysterious ticking and hissing of rain drops which keep hanging halfway the heather plant on each twig and sprout..
Anton Mauve
It was my idea to ‘frost' the streak in the front. I was searching for a different look. Either be blonde or brunette. But don't be brunette in the back and blonde in the front.
June Vincent
Gylfie turned to Digger and spoke, "Come with us, Digger." "But where is it you're going?" he asked. "To the Great Ga'Hoole Tree." "What?" said Digger, but before Twilight could answer, Streak broke in. "I've heard of that place, but isn't it just a story, a legend?" "To some it might be," Twilight said, and blinked at the eagle. But not to owls, thought Soren. To owls, he thought, it is a real place.
Kathryn Lasky
I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.
Joe E. Lewis
Being God, I must choose My words carefully. People, I've noticed, tend to hang on to My every remark. It gets annoying, this servile and sycophantic streak in Homo sapiens sapiens. There's a difference, after all, between tasteful adulation and arrant toadyism, but they just don't get it.
James K. Morrow
There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
Parker Posey
I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
Florence Welch
For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.
Paul Feig
You should have had the decency to die when you needed to." "Sorry,” I admitted. "I've been going through a bit of a rebellious streak. I swear it's almost over.
Ally Carter
Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression. (Beverley Nichols)
My first scene was a streaking scene, I had to streak at a footy game, thats how I get introduced.
Ben Nicholas
Both of us are known for probably at times regrettable streak of independence.
David Kay
I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.
Gail Collins
I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a life, and how I could cross what is kind of trivialized as a domestic novel with a novel of ideas, a philosophical novel.
Jenny Offill
I was born a limited-government person. I've always had this streak going through me.
Joe Lhota
I've been really lucky that I've been exposed to a lot of lovely, talented people who are not jerks, and I would like to continue that streak.
Mackenzie Davis
If you have a perfectionist streak - and who doesn't? - running can kill the perfectionist inside you.
Lucy Alibar
When I'm in bars or clubs, it gets to the point where I feel I'm obliged to streak. It's not a problem.
Mark Roberts
A dirty player is somebody who ultimately is trying to hurt somebody. There's a huge difference. There's no gray in that. Like, you have no conscience, no nothing, no guilt. I don't have that mean streak in me. I don't play angry. It's not anger.
Ndamukong Suh
I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess. (Gregory Peck)
No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk-handsome, twentytwoyearold.
W. Somerset Maugham
I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.
George Best
There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.
Alan Dershowitz
Like a lot of people, I've got a self-loathing streak that's alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I'm working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too.
Ryan Reynolds