Streaks Quotes - Page 7

• I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust [tree].

  Davy Crockett

  Horse, Turtles, Ohio

  Davy Crockett (1834). “Sketches and eccentricities of Col. David Crockett,: of West Tennessee”, p.164

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• The darkness is not so dense as it was; there are faint streaks on the horizon's verge; mist is in the valleys, but there is a radiance on the distant hill. It comes nearer--that promise of the day. The clouds roll rapidly away, and they are fringed with amber and gold. It is, it is the blest sunlight that I feel around me--Morning! It is morning!

  William Morley Punshon

  Morning, Clouds, Darkness

  William Morley Punshon (1857). “John Bunyan, a lecture”, p.50

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• It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism; for certainly, no one can deny the existence of a profoundly morbid streak in the Puritan imagination.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Night, Profound, Imagination

  H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.145, Lulu.com

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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 was hoping in the last fifteen minutes that Barcelona would beat them. I've made my mind up on Benitez tonight. He's a nice man but he's got a huge negative streak running through him. Liverpool was terrible in the second half. They didn't play football. If that was a concert, you'd boo. Gerrard: found out. A nothing player. They were terrible. Terrible.

  Eamon

  Football, Running, Nice

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• Most private traders on a losing streak keep trying to trade their way out of a hole. A loser thinks a successful trade is just around the corner, and that his luck is about to turn. He keeps putting on more trades and increases his size, all the while digging himself a deeper hole in the ice. The sensible thing to do would be to reduce your trading size and then stop and review your system.

  Alexander Elder

  Successful, Thinking, Ice

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• Because I was familiar with Taika's Watiti work and there's a very subversive, funny streak amongst all of them. I don't think he turned [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] into a sort of drama, there's too much dark material underneath it for it to be a comedy; it wasn't designed to be a comedy. I think it's a comedy... I think it's a drama that's funny; which is different.

  Sam Neill

  Drama, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Baseball didn't really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak. Getting a daily hit became more important to me than eating, drinking or sleeping.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Baseball, Drinking, Sleep

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• 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

  Hurt, Dirty, Mean

  "He Didn't Mean to Hurt You" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, www.gq.com. August 20, 2012.

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• [Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned; as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution.

  Willa Cather

  Sky, Water, Forgiving

  Willa Cather (1938). “The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...”

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• Play small ball. Get back to basics. I would say that you need to be a conservative, but you need to maintain your independent streak.

  Andrea Tantaros

  Independent, Play, Needs

  Source: themoderatevoice.com

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• Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who had created a system of linked dictatorships to control the creative people. We were supposed to be the children; mad, tempestuous, brilliant, talented, not terribly smart children.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Children, Smart, People

  Shirley MacLaine (1975). “You Can Get There From here”

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• I was always compared to the Energizer Bunny in my consecutive game streak because every day I showed up and went to work and they said he keeps going and going and going, but a lot of people do that.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Games, People, Bunnies

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. February 16, 2007.

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• I'm very pleased with all of our guys. We had the one good game offensively in Cleveland. We just need that one moment. We have to have a one-game winning streak tomorrow, and if we do that, I really would be feeling pretty good about going back to Cleveland.

  Joe Maddon

  Winning, Games, Guy

  Source: m.cubs.mlb.com

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• I'm not saying I'd already done anything, actually, but I'd passed my experimental streak.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Gene Wilder made his movie debut in "Bonnie And Clyde," starred in the Mel Brooks films "The Producers," "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles," played opposite Richard Pryor in "Silver Streak" and "Stir Crazy" and portrayed the candy-maker in "Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory."

  Terry Gross

  Crazy, Opposites, Chocolate

  Source: keranews.org

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• Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several"mothers," all wives to one man. . . . Mothers in rural Guatemala keep their infants quiet, in dark huts. Middle-class American mothers talk a blue streak at them. Israeli kibbutz mothers give them over to a communal caretaker . . . Japanese mothers sleep with them. . . . All these tactics are compatible with normal health--physical and mental--and development in infancy. So one lesson for parents so far seems to be: Let a hundred flowers bloom.

  Melvin Konner

  Mother, Flower, Sleep

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• If this keeps up (four game winning streak) I'm about to manage until I'm a hundred.

  Casey Stengel

  Winning, Games, Four

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• There's a part of me that wants to go streak and run outside and jump around and go swim in the ocean and do everything. The other part of me wants to bear down and repeat this kind of performance next year and in the years to come.

  Barry Zito

  Running, Ocean, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.

  Kenneth Oppel

  Want, Affliction, Terrible

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• If Rose's streak was still intact, with that single to left, the fans would be throwing babies out of the upper deck.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Baby

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• I don't particularly like the word average because when it comes down to it there is no average in people. Everybody has their own streak of uniqueness within them.

  Matthew Carter

  Average, People, Uniqueness

  Source: darkagefiction.wordpress.com

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• I've long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would be bacon and eggs. There are few sights that appeal to me more than the streaks of lean and fat in a good side of bacon, or the lovely round of pinkish meat framed in delicate white fat that is Canadian bacon. Nothing is quite as intoxicating as the smell of bacon frying in the morning, save perhaps the smell of coffee brewing.

  James Beard

  Morning, Coffee, Food

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• I like stirring things up. Im on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I dont get in too much trouble.

  William Joyce

  Kids, Adults, Too Much

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  To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  People, Giving, Leader

  Norman Schwarzkopf (2010). “It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf”, p.77, Bantam

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