Streaks Quotes - Page 5

• I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation.

  Heather Wilson

  Independent, Issues, Important

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• You have to have a serious streak in you, or you can't see the funny side of the other fellow.

  Will Rogers

  Sides, Serious, Fellows

  Will Rogers, Steven K. Gragert, Judy G. Buckholz, Oklahoma State University, Will Rogers Memorial Commission (1974). “The Writings of Will Rogers”

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• It was like she was MADE of cake, light and pretty and decorated on the outside-with her sweet laugh and pink streak to her hair-but it was anyone's guess what was on the inside.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Sweet, Light, Hair

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.24, Bantam

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• 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

  Sorry, Should Have, Almost Over

  Ally Carter (2013). “Gallagher Girls: United We Spy”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• I didn't go up to the plate thinking, 'OK, my goal now is to get a hit'-I tried not to think about [the streak].

  Chase Utley

  Thinking, Goal, Plates

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• I think especially boys have a competitive streak when they're 12.

  Gage Munroe

  Boys, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I do a combo situation of lotion and body makeup and put it on with my moisturizer in the morning. That seems to work best for me because self-tanning lotion always streaks and looks kind of crazy. So I put on some body makeup and wash it off at night. I have to do it every day, but that's just a part of my life now.

  Brittany Snow

  Morning, Crazy, Makeup

  "The Genius Way Brittany Snow Gets Tan Without Going in the Sun (and No, Not With Self-Tanner)". Interview with Julianne Carell, www.glamour.com. June 8, 2016.

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• And again it snowed, and again the sun came out. In the mornings on the way to the station Franklin counted the new snowmen that had sprung up mysteriously overnight or the old ones that had been stricken with disease and lay cracked apart-a head here, a broken body and three lumps of coal there-and one day he looked up from a piece of snow-colored rice paper and knew he was done. It was as simple as that: you bent over your work night after night, and one day you were done. Snow still lay in dirty streaks on the ground but clusters of yellow-green flowers hung from the sugar maples.

  Steven Millhauser

  Morning, Dirty, Flower

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• His fingers leave streaks of cold on my skin, invisible to the eye, and I think about wrapping his shirt around my fist and pulling him in to kiss me; I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

  Veronica Roth

  Eye, Kissing, Thinking

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• Show me a golfer who doesn't have a mean streak, and I'll show you a weak competitor.

  Lee Trevino

  Mean, Golf, Weak

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• Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise, and orderly arranged, after the manner of the copper or tin worms, which distillers use to cool their liquors as they distil over. The whole circumference of each of these streaks was about the thickness of a hair of one's head. ... all consisted of very small green globules joined together: and there were very many small green globules as well. [The earliest recorded observation of the common green alga Spyrogyra.]

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Wise, Science, Hair

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• They call him the Streak, he likes to turn the other cheek. He's always making the news, wearing just his tennis shoes.

  Ray Stevens

  Shoes, Social Taboos, Tennis

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• Those enjoying winning streaks thus win twofold. They win not only the game but also the right to greater self-determination. They become masters of their own fate. That feeling of efficacy, of being in charge of circumstances, is the essence of confidence. Winning once or twice is encouraging, but winning continuously is empowering.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Confidence, Determination, Fate

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (2008). “Confidence”, p.61, Random House

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• I always stick with the same pair if I am on a scoring streak. I wouldn't change them until I go a game without scoring.

  Peter Crouch

  Games, Pairs, Sticks

  "Peter Crouch Interview - Puma PowerCat 1.10". SoccerBible Interview, www.soccerbible.com. March 20, 2014.

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• England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their trade as nowhere else in the western world.

  Colin MacInnes

  Football, Baby, Sweet

  "Out of the way: later essays".

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• Michael Jackson has an anti-Semitic streak, and hasn't learned from his past mistakes. It seems every time he has a problem in his life, he blames it on Jews.

  Abraham Foxman

  Mistake, Past, Blame

  "Jackson Told To Apologize for "Anti-Semitic Rant" by wenn.com, November 25, 2005.

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• My first scene was a streaking scene, I had to streak at a footy game, thats how I get introduced.

  Ben Nicholas

  Games, Firsts, Scene

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• My Client Brock Lesnar conquered the Undertaker's undefeated streak at WrestleMania!

  Paul Heyman

  Wwe, Clients, Undertaker

  "WWE Raw", July 21, 2014.

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• There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns—small intuitive flashes, when you know you have done something correct for a change, when you think you are on the right track. I watched a pale dawn streak the cliffs with Day-glo and realized this was one of them. It was a moment of pure, uncomplicated confidence—and lasted about ten seconds.

  Robyn Davidson

  Thinking, Track, Dawn

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.3, A&C Black

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• Tira: Whatever you're thinkin' you're wrong. I only like him like a brother. You ain't got nothin' to worry about. . . . Say listen you. A better dame than you once called me a liar and they had to sew her up in twelve different places. You're lucky I'm a little more refined than I used to be. And if you was as much a lady as I am, you'd get out of here before I get real sore. Alicia: You haven't a streak of decency in you. Tira: I don't show my good points to strangers. I'll trouble you to scram.

  Mae West

  Brother, Real, Liars

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• But it seems to me equally obvious that the orderliness is not all-pervasive. There are streaks of order to be found among the chaos, and the nature of scientific method is to seek these out and to stick to them when found and to reject or neglect the chaos. It is obvious that we have succeeded in finding some order in nature, but this fact in itself does not prove anything farther.

  Arthur David Ritchie

  Science, Order, Doe

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• The GOP’s thirst for confrontation and crisis is symptomatic of a destructive and nihilistic streak that has overtaken our political system. When one party repudiates the whole concept of compromise, it is inevitable that the government will lurch from one crisis to another.

  Mike Lofgren

  Party, Government, Political

  Mike Lofgren (2012). “The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted”, p.24, Penguin

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• It must have meant something, though, that at this turn of my life I grabbed up a book. Because it was in books that I would find, for the next few years, my lovers. They were men, not boys. They were self-possessed and sardonic, with a ferocious streak in them, reserves of gloom.

  Alice Munro

  Book, Boys, Men

  Alice Munro (2010). “The View From Castle Rock”, p.226, Random House

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• You win a while, and then it’s done - Your little winning streak.

  Leonard Cohen

  Winning, Done, Littles

  Song: A Thousand Kisses Deep, Album: Ten New Songs, 2001

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• Contrary to what our brains are telling us, there's no mystical force that imbues a winner with a streak of luck, nor is there a cosmic sense of justice that ensures that a loser's luck will turn around. The universe doesn't care one whit whether you've been winning or losing; each roll of the dice is just like every other.

  Charles Seife

  Winning, Justice, Luck

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