Top 100 Streak Quotes
#1. I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I've done, there is a bit of a black streak through all of it. It's not deliberate: it's what makes me laugh, and there's a fine tradition of it, especially in Ireland.
Sharon Horgan
#2. In 50 years, your grandchildren will be asking you where you were when CM Punk beat the Undertaker's streak!
CM Punk
#3. No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.
Christy Mathewson
#4. There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.
Sam Peckinpah
#5. I refuse to sit and wait for salvation. Every day I have looked to the sky for the white streak of a plane making its way across the Pacific, but I have not seen any.
Jennifer Arnett
#6. In all prospering human affairs there is a streak of hazard, a blending of good fortune with good judgment which gives the lucky man a sense of having earned his deserts and gives the deserving, if he is modest, an awareness of his luck. That
Winston Graham
#7. Weirdly, an image of Adrian's Love painting came back to me. I thought of the jagged red streak, slashing through the blackness, ripping it
apart. Staring at Jill and her inconsolable pain, I suddenly understood his art a little bit better.
Richelle Mead
#8. Part of it was a feminist streak and the other part of it was the ultimate in antifeminism: a deeply rooted need in me to be accepted by my dad and by other men. If I could do the same things as them, I would be accepted into their world.
Melanie Neale
#9. He smiled at me shyly and took a step closer. I froze, heart pounding, as he put one hand on my cheek and leaned toward me. I swallowed, gazing up at him with what I hoped was an expectant (and not alarmed) expression. He bent his head toward mine and ...
J.M. Richards
#10. 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
#11. I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswire across his character and disposition and general outlook. With some men it's secret and we never know it's there until they strike us in the dark one night.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#12. I liked it better when you were dying," Allie said. "You didn't bitch so much." "Look sharp, Allie. I think you missed a pothole back there. You don't want to break up your streak of dragging me over every one." Allie
Joe Hill
#13. I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.
Betty Ford
#14. I was born a limited-government person. I've always had this streak going through me.
Joe Lhota
#15. The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables.
Aldous Huxley
#16. So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.
Virginia Woolf
#17. I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.
Gregory Peck
#18. 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
#19. He'd fallen for her - for her sometimes amusing, sometimes confounding combination of strength, brains, drive, vulnerability, and mile-wide stubborn streak. He'd fallen for the whole complicated package, screwed-up father included.
Samanthe Beck
#20. 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
#21. It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature
Tennessee Williams
#22. Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot.
Edward Abbey
#23. I had a creative hot streak in the 1940s and since then I've been pot boiling.
Stephen Shore
#24. I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.
Barbra Streisand
#25. 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
#26. She had brushed her teeth before vomiting as well, never able to utterly crush the optimistic streak in her nature.
Edward St. Aubyn
#27. I saw that streak in him when he told me, 'Get the hell out of here or I'll wipe you out., I got the hell out of there, Liston really scared me.
Muhammad Ali
#28. 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
#29. Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.
H. H. Asquith
#30. The more Wayne inhabited Edison, the more he wondered how a man cultivates a stubborn streak so pronounced that it transforms a daily barrage of failures into stimulants.
Jim Lynch
#31. Unhappy endings might seem more realistic than happy ones, but reality often contained a streak of fantasy that realism lacked.
Salman Rushdie
#32. Kestrel felt a slow, slight throb, a shimmer in the blood. She knew it well.
Her worst trait. Her best trait.
The desire to come out on top, to set her opponent under her thumb.
A streak of pride. Her mind ringed with hungry rows of foxlike teeth.
Marie Rutkoski
#33. Am I racially kin to this man? Baynes wondered. So closely so that for all intents and purposes it is the same? Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And - how many of us do know it?
Philip K. Dick
#34. it is easy to see how Stanley's painful poorhouse childhood may have fostered his cruel streak and the drive to place his mark on the world. The origin of the fiery passion for justice that fueled Morel is less evident. He
Adam Hochschild
#35. She should feel sick. Horrified, stunned. But the horrible truth was, she felt fine. He killed. He killed to protect her. And some
ancient, atavistic streak inside her wanted to preen and purr. She was one sick puppy.
Anne Stuart
#36. I like birthdays because we celebrate life with cakes. It's so cool. Sometimes when I see a baby, I'm like that much more cake in the world. But then when someone dies, I'm like the cake streak is over ...
Demetri Martin
#37. How long y' think it'll take t'git that wild streak out im?"
"Well, Brother Tiggins, that'll depend on how long he can weather the leather.
Mars Hill
#38. 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
#39. Rhosh, remember the being's skin, smooth, dark brown skin, like this one's skin, and the being's hair. The hair was the same, thick like this and with loose curls and the very same golden streak in it, only broader and on the right side of the head.
Anne Rice
#40. Ultimately, the best runners are the ones who are willing to work very hard but who have a little bit of a lazy streak in them.
Benji Durden
#41. Actually, it was more like they thought I was going to take off all my clothes and streak through the hallway.
James Patterson
#42. You have a very attractive revenge streak in you. I like it. A lot." ~Maggie Mae Castro to FBI Special Agent Clive Poole
Beth Yarnall
#44. Like most Two Rivers folk, Rand had a strong stubborn streak. Outsiders sometimes said it was the prime trait of people in the Two Rivers, that they could give mules lessons and teach stones.
Robert Jordan
#45. Because I love you," Iain said simply. "I always have. I love your bad temper. I love your jealous streak. I love your strength and pigheadedness. And I know you love me. And sometimes love makes people go a little crazy. The insanity won't last forever ... I hope.
Kirsten Miller
#46. History was ignorant and had a mean streak, so it tended to repeat.
Raymond L. Atkins
#48. But from the very start, there is that small streak of steel within each child. That thing that says "I am," and forms the core of personality.
Diana Gabaldon
#49. My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#50. 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
#51. He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar. He stood for everything she feared and hated and despised; but she knew she could love him ... This was no choice made with the mind.
Daphne Du Maurier
#52. Peter is ... adjusting. He's back in school, and he's doing quite well. I wish you could find it in your heart to forgive him."
"I've got this funny resentful streak about people who try to kill me.
Josh Lanyon
#53. Eliza was stubborn as the year was long but she had a streak of honesty that rivaled any knight's.
Anonymous
#54. If he can't handle it, then you aren't very good friends, are you?
J.M. Richards
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. Dear God ... I, I have caused a miracle. I gave her the eyes. I gave her the blue, blue, two blue eyes. Cobalt blue. A streak of it right out of your own blue heaven. No one else will see her blue eyes. But she will. And she will live happily ever after.
Toni Morrison
#58. Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
Nate Silver
#59. Then I'll do some digging. (Fury)
You just can't help this kamikaze streak you have, can you? (Sasha)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#60. The year I gave up the 150-catch streak I had an ankle injury and didn't want to go back in because I'd have a better chance of playing the following week.
Ozzie Newsome
#61. think all young women are cursed with a streak of unrelenting foolishness, and all young men are cursed with a streak of absolute stupidity. He
Neal Shusterman
#62. People think I must have all these superstitions, but I don't. I use my batting gloves 'til they wear out. I broke four or five bats during the streak, and I didn't cry over any of them.
Jimmy Rollins
#63. You have an alarming streak of chivalry for a butler. I'd accuse you of aping your betters, but I have met your houseguests.
Caroline Dunford
#64. Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.
Seth Klarman
#65. Oh, precious losing streak,
you're too cute for your own good.
I try to laugh about it
but my face is made of wood.
Casey Renee Kiser
#66. She was wearing blue jeans and a dark blue peasant blouse, the ties of the neck open. She looked so beautiful and soft, with her big brown eyes and her light brown hair shining in the afternoon light. He couldn't see the pink streak, and he had an incredible urge to find it.
Sarah Addison Allen
#67. When she saw a shooting star streak overhead, she asked her beloved what he wished for, and he said he only wished to sit there with her for as long as forever.
Zubin Mathai
#68. I think especially boys have a competitive streak when they're 12.
Gage Munroe
#69. Every winning streak will have to end sometime.
Jahangir Khan
#70. I also think that there is a strong streak of racism, and whenever we engage in foreign adventures. Our whole history in regime change has been of people of different color.
Ed Asner
#71. She had large, questioning eyes that seemed to draw me in and a sense of quiet outrage that simmered just beneath the surface. More than anything, within her features, there was a streak of wild quirkiness that made her dazzlingly attractive.
Jasper Fforde
#72. We walked to dinner, ate together, and talked nearly the whole time. I was amazed that I had as much in common with her as I did. I'd been raised mostly in a completely different country, yet we were so similar.
J.M. Richards
#73. I still noticed that little streak of rebelliousness coming up in me again - the same sense of dissatisfaction I had felt earlier with the empty rituals and institutionalized values of all religious traditions.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
#74. He had a tenderness in him, and a streak of poetry, and she knew he loved the land for far more than its ability to sustain him.
Linda Lael Miller
#75. I still feel young as far as motivation is concerned, and also the challenges that I have for the future and what I want to achieve. So I just hope this successful streak is extended to the fullest.
Novak Djokovic
#76. My Client Brock Lesnar conquered the Undertakers Undefeated Streak at Wrestlemania
Paul Heyman
#77. Every second a hundred bolts of lightning streak to Earth across the globe as the electric charges that build up within storm clouds are attracted by the positively charged ground. Earth experiences about 40,000 thunderstorms a day.
Bill Bryson
#79. 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
#80. One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#81. I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.
George Best
#82. He smiled at two people walking by: a tall, good-looking boy with a streak of white in his dark hair and a brunette girl whose eyes were shaded by sunglasses. They ignored him. But
Cassandra Clare
#83. 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
#84. But there was a streak in me, a perverse one, which prevented me from giving the essential self. This "perversity" always voiced itself thus: "Reveal your true self and they will mutilate you.
Henry Miller
#85. She rubbed it onto his hands one day in Year Eleven, feeling the texture of his fingertips, callused by the strings of his guitar, and his palms, rough from woodwork. ("Productive, despite your lazy streak," she had said, inspecting them.)
Melina Marchetta
#86. Science fiction has traditionally been economically naive, with a strong libertarian streak, which I think is like a crude Leninism. That's attractive because it could be used to explain everything, and if only we lived by its tenets, everything would be perfect.
Charles Stross
#87. To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'
Lena Olin
#88. Alan shrugged. "I love the CBC, really, but being voted its president - " "Co-president," Sputnik corrected. " - is kind of like being declared King of Nerds." "Co-king," Sputnik asserted.
J.M. Richards
#89. 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
#90. It's not enough to shelve your own competitive streak. You have to try, consciously, to help others succeed.
Chris Hadfield
#91. We should go to Vegas," I announced. "We're on a streak."
His brows drew together. "Babe, not sure you're payin' attention but, shit that's flyin' around us does not say 'winning streak'."
"I've got a naked hot guy bad boy on top of my that proves you wrong.
Kristen Ashley
#92. I always wanted to do a Hollywood story. The thing about actors, though, is that they go through a streak of roles.
Tom Folsom
#93. You remind me of myself " Bes continued "back when I was a young dwarf. You got a stubborn
streak. When it comes to girl problems you're clueless.
Rick Riordan
#94. 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
#95. I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.
Madeleine L'Engle
#96. For me, Paul Scholes has been the best midfield player in the Premier League. By a mile. He has the lot. He scores and creates goals, he can pass the ball, he can head it, and rounds all this off with a competitive streak.
Alan Shearer
#97. A streak of bare flesh darted past our door.
Mason grinned at me. "It's like we didn't even miss Fisher's party tonight."
My nurse sprinted past our door, followed by another two.
Tijan
#98. We didn't have to talk, and it wasn't awkward. We were just two lonely, out of place people sharing a holiday with junk food from the vending machine and a Claymation classic on the television." oh and later "I guess its a good thing we found each other then.
J.M. Richards Tall Dark Streak Of Lightning
#99. I think I definitely want to blame my parents on this one. One of the things about having a minister for a father, you do tend to develop an irreverent streak. Kinda goes with the territory. And Dad was as bad as I am, really .
Matt Ruff
#100. 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
