Streatfeild Quotes

#1. There's something nice about out-and-out children's books with no sex and a happy ending - Ransome, Streatfeild, that kind of thing.

Jo Walton

#2. Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.

Dashiell Hammett

#3. You never can tell what's magic.

Noel Streatfeild

#4. Facts speak louder than statistics.

Geoffrey Streatfeild

#5. When I'm in a movie, what I always do, instead of sitting in a trailer or watching a DVD, is I go on the set and watch the director work and the actors work, and sometimes I'll hang out with B camera and watch what they're up to and ask questions because there's so much to learn about the medium.

Tim Blake Nelson

#6. Everyone can recognize history when it happens. Everyone can recognize history after is has happened; but only the wise man knows at the moment what is vital and permanent, what is lasting and memorable.

Winston Churchill

#7. I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord and hatred of each other.

Lord Byron

#8. I sometimes feel that I'd like to talk about it. Then I find it's better if I don't.

Noel Streatfeild

#9. There is no doubt a new dress is a help under all circumstances.

Noel Streatfeild

#10. You are more than welcome." he winks. "Nothing stands in the way now, does it?

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#11. It might have all the same; you never can tell what's magic.

Noel Streatfeild

#12. Twelve shillings for your sister's skates, and two shillings for your dreams.

Noel Streatfeild

#13. During the last six months the little girl Harriet, without her noticing it, had disappeared and a new Harriet had taken her place. A Harriet who looked much the same outside, but was more of a person inside.

Noel Streatfeild

#14. It was all very well to be ambitious, but ambition should not kill the nice qualities in you.

Noel Streatfeild

#15. Man is hypocrite! He says that he loves flowers but he kills them for his own simple interests and for his own joy! Man is hypocrite!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. It was one of those rare nights when I was kept awake not by my nightmares and anxieties but by something exciting and exhilarating. Most nights I lay awake waiting for some unexpected disaster ... I think I somehow felt that as long as I was conscious, nothing bad could happen ...

Azar Nafisi

#17. Despite the fact that he's been dead for over seventy years and his prose considered purple and overwrought by many, H.P. Lovecraft's work is still widely read and has remained influential for generations.

Ellen Datlow

#18. Nature can blow me.

Scott Westerfeld

#19. I just walked out of the room. I was like, I'm embarrassed, so I need to leave.

Maddie Ziegler

#20. Winning means being unafraid to lose." In

Robert T. Kiyosaki