Silver Streak Quotes

#1. Life does rhyme: it rhymes all the time.

Martin Amis

#2. Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive.

Eugene H. Peterson

#3. The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark ... Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas - a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak.

Jodi Picoult

#4. Jem looked at ease in a white sweater and dark jeans. His black hair had a single, dramatic streak of silver in it that stood out against his brown skin.

Cassandra Clare

#5. Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

Nate Silver

#6. Happiness consists of living in the dailiness of life and not knowing how happy you are. True happiness comes of not knowing you're happy.

E.L. Doctorow

#7. Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.

Gloria Steinem

#8. I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from.

Ally Condie

#9. That is why she dislikes dreams: they impose an unacceptable equivalence among the various periods of the same life, a leveling contemporaneity of everything a person has ever experienced; they discredit the present by denying it its privileged status.

Milan Kundera

#10. Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.

Imelda Staunton

#11. Really? Because I recall you asking the Elvis impersonator at your Vegas wedding if he could add a line to Jenny's vows that said, 'I promise to always give blow jobs with a smile on my face and love in my heart,

Tara Sivec

#12. I guess I let things get me down as far as a person can go, she thought with disgust, and her own scorn warmed her. I won't let it happen again, ever, no matter what comes. Once you get down all the way, the road can only go up.

Alexandra Ripley

#13. Saw a little girl touch a big bug and shout, "I conquered my fear! YES!" and calmly walk away. I was inspired.

Nathan Fillion

#14. Having been a demon curse, however brief, should leave a mark. A streak of silver hair, or bewitching eyes. Maybe crows on one's roof or a hound from hell at your heel. Blowing out my breath I stood and squinted at my reflection. A black eye. Swell.

Kim Harrison

#15. Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas
a whole grammar made of light, for words to hard to speak.

Jodi Picoult

#16. Sometimes when we don't know the answer,
it's time to simply be with the question.

Marianne Williamson

#17. It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.

Little Richard

#18. The sin of Kibr (arrogance) is actually worse than many of the sins that we would be advising [other] people about.

Yasmin Mogahed

#19. 'Joy' to me is a reflection of the life experiences that I've had throughout the first record and kind of having some time and a hiatus. It's just like all of those experiences that I had during that period - that growing up period.

Fefe Dobson

#20. You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.

P. J. O'Rourke