Top 93 Streeter Quotes
#1. For an acquisitive Wall Streeter, the money saved by choosing a practical car can be put toward the cost of some pricier means of mobility - like a plane.
Michael Shnayerson
#2. The hair-color, Streeter decided, of the old men you see sitting on park benches and feeding the pigeons. Call it Just For Losers. #
Shane Jiraiya Cummings
#3. Indeed he did, and we never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not. Wouldn't you say so, Mr. Streeter?
Stephen King
#4. They privatize the profits and socialize the losses, so whichever way the wheel spins, they win." Quote from a millionaire Wall-Streeter in Hitchhiking with Larry David by Paul Samule Dolman.
Paul Dolman
#5. STREETER: Let's just not argue. You can call me stupid, all right. I can call you a coward, all right. It's just I believe one thing, you believe something else. I think the world's got an outside chance, you believe it hasn't. That's all.
Robert Ardrey
#6. I want to take it back," Streeter whispered. Elvid favored him with a stony smile that revealed a jutting ring of cannibal teeth. "You can't," he said. That was in August of 2001, less than a month before the fall of the Towers.
Shane Jiraiya Cummings
#8. Abbie would stop in her work and utter a prayer for him, - and, sent as it were from the bow of a mother's watchful care, bound by the cord of a mother's love, the little winged arrow on its flight must have reached Some one, - Somewhere.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#9. What makes it smell so sweet?" they wanted to know. "Because everything,
every little wild plum-blossom, every little tiny crocus and anemone and violet and every tree-bud and grass-blade is working to help make the prairie nice.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#10. It was queer how it all hurt you--how the odor of the night, the silver sheen of the moon, the moist feeling of the dew, the whispering of the night breeze, how somewhere down in your throat it hurt you.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#11. When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#12. I swear I pick up little gems from every artist that I work with. That's why I'm so appreciative that I've been able to be a songwriter first.
Sevyn Streeter
#13. And so they discussed it seriously, Abbie who knew that one may laugh with a child but at him, and Laura, who knew that Grandma was one unfailing source of sympathy and understanding in a world which was beginning to be critical.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#16. Betty, who had found an old battered doll, was sitting quietly in the corner and industriously endeavoring to pick its one eye out
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#17. I've had the honor to be in sessions with great artists.
Sevyn Streeter
#18. I haven't always been good at flirting, but I've learned that flirting is all about confidence. I don't think it's about being sexy at all; it's just about having enough confidence to walk up to somebody and have a conversation with them.
Sevyn Streeter
#19. And standing there ... old Abbie Deal began to cry. They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#20. Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal ...
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#22. I've been singing forever; I grew up singing in church.
Sevyn Streeter
#23. I went on tour with Beyonce when I was in Rich Girl and that was ... something I will tell my kids for years and years and years to come. That's like saying, 'I toured with Michael Jackson.' That will be something I will forever cherish.
Sevyn Streeter
#24. The wheels where enormous wooden affairs, the back ones rounding up over the windows of the coach.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#25. I ... you mean me?"
"Quite naturally, when I said, 'What about you, yourself,' I meant
you.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#26. Humans are queer. A man, living and well, is ignored or criticized. Dying or dead, he is noticed and praised. Death sheds a temporary glamour over the poorest soul. It is as though in dying, he has accomplished something which life never gave him.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#27. Not all clever words are true ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#28. A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#30. A lot of times, you get into it with your significant other, and you feel like, 'Oh my God, you are acting crazy.' I've heard that before - I'm sure a lot of us have!
Sevyn Streeter
#31. Breakups are still uncomfortable, period, and especially when you really are in love with somebody. They are not the easiest things to deal with, and once you break up, you're trying to get used to not being with that person.
Sevyn Streeter
#32. There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#33. If I'm writing for a particular artist, I definitely think about their past records, pay attention to the type of tempos that they like. If I have the privilege of actually being in the session with the artist, I just like to have a conversation with them.
Sevyn Streeter
#34. Take life one day at a time because every day is a different day with new challenges.
Penny Streeter
#35. Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#36. Conversation without you trying to be sexy can still come off as very sexy. Trust me!
Sevyn Streeter
#37. For me to give my advice to somebody who's thinking about going back to an ex or keeps on going back to their ex, you'll know when you're done. You'll know when you're finished with that person. You'll know when you're over them and ready to move, but nobody else can tell you that.
Sevyn Streeter
#38. Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of digging, thinking our own dark passage-ways constitute all there is to the world.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#39. Home was something besides so much lumber and plaster. You built your thoughts into the frame work. You planted a little of your heart with the trees and the shrubbery.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#40. One thing that was really dope for me was that my dad had a '78 Corvette, '78 or '76 Corvette all my life. It always needed to be fixed up. I remember it's just been sitting in the driveway for years, and I got it fixed from top to bottom for his birthday.
Sevyn Streeter
#41. For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady glow of its fire still shines on the hearth-stones of countless homes ...
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#42. Abbie Deal went happily about her work, one baby in her arms and the other at her skirts, courage her lode-star and love her guide, - a song upon her lips and a lantern in her hand.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#43. I'm a perfectionist to a default. I will drive you crazy sometimes. When I'm recording, I will try something a trillion times to get it right.
Sevyn Streeter
#44. A lot of women want to be married and have kids one day, but before we get there, it's so important to establish who you are, find yourself, and live in that for a minute before you become somebody's wife and mother.
Sevyn Streeter
#46. No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds expression in human personality.
Burnett Hillman Streeter
#47. Every year of my life, my dad has sent me a Valentine's Day gift. Whether I was in the same house or across the country, he always sent something.
Sevyn Streeter
#48. He [Sam] wrote it with great flourishes, his hand making many dizzy elliptical journeys before it settled down to make a elaborate 'E' with a curving tail as long as some prehistoric baboons.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#50. ...For can you think how it would be, to never, never hear a meadow lark sing again...?
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#51. You could not stop the winds and you could not stop Time. It went on and on,-and on.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#53. If Christ Himself needed to retire from time to time to the mountain-top to pray, lesser men need not be ashamed to acknowledge that necessity.
Burnett Hillman Streeter
#54. I feel like R&B is really based off of emotion and truth. R&B is a conversation.
Sevyn Streeter
#55. I wanna be able to stand on the stage and hold out the mic and people sing all the lyrics to my song.
Sevyn Streeter
#57. And now Abbie had the new experience of attempting to keep another person courageous. It was more trying than to keep up her own spirits. Why must she always be strong for other people?
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#58. You have, to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try and make it like the ideal. If you want a garden, - why, I guess you've got to dream a garden.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#59. You always hear how female artists don't get along, how they hate each other - but that hasn't been my experience.
Sevyn Streeter
#60. I have a hard time getting over an ex. Getting over an ex is just hard, period.
Sevyn Streeter
#62. Music is emotional. Your job is to make people feel something. The best way to do that is to sing and speak from something they've personally been through. That's where I write from.
Sevyn Streeter
#63. I did 'Showtime at the Apollo' when I was 10, and it was the first time that I'd ever performed on TV, and it felt great.
Sevyn Streeter
#64. You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.
Sevyn Streeter
#65. Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#66. I think men and women will both agree that one of the perks of being single on Valentine's Day is that you get to keep your money in your pocket.
Sevyn Streeter
#67. Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart ... filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#68. ...Mabel put on the boiled potatos, unmashed, the stewed tomatos, some inferior dried beef, and some bread that plainly said, 'Darling, I am growing old'.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#69. If I can't see stories in the lives of the people around me,--I just couldn't see them anywhere. If I can't see drama in humanity near me, I guess I couldn't detect it in humans far away.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#70. It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#71. My label, my team and I are always looking to get involved with positive things.
Sevyn Streeter
#72. Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#74. ...The last name had been entered by Samuel Peters' agile pen with much shading of downward strokes and many extra corkscrew appendages...
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#75. People inspire me to write, the good ones and the bad ones.
Sevyn Streeter
#76. Writing for yourself is like exposing your diary. It can be a little embarrassing at times, but if it helps somebody get through the day just by hearing a song, it's well worth it.
Sevyn Streeter
#77. I feel like everyone has a preference. You have women who don't like shorter guys. You have women who like taller guys. You have women who like heavier men. You have women who like smaller men. It's the same thing with men. You have men who prefer lighter women and men who prefer darker women.
Sevyn Streeter
#78. Growing up, I always wanted to be a singer, and I've done that.
Sevyn Streeter
#79. I think in my life I have so many things that changed so much with work and my career, and I don't really get to plan out a lot of my days. So when I have something that's familiar - just something that's there - I don't really like to switch it up.
Sevyn Streeter
#80. Ella held herself rigidly against all emotion until she arrived at the dark haven of her room. Then she threw herself across her bed and cried because life was such a tragic thing.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#81. Aunt Grace was leaving ... Looking after her a moment, Laura had another feeling of tenderness toward her. How we live our lives side by side with those whom we never know or understand.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#82. I've learned over the years to appreciate God's timing, and you can't rush things; it's gonna happen exactly when it's supposed to.
Sevyn Streeter
#83. It took all their common sense and philosophy to face life these days. The two are synonymous.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#84. ...Uncle Harry Wentworth's dollar was turned deep under the sod. But though the sun shone on it and the rain fell, nothing ever came from it, - not a green thing nor a singing thing nor a human soul.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#85. The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#86. You do try to write songs that you feel like people can relate to and you try to be as honest as you can so that people hear your records and they feel like, "Oh, my god. This is exactly how I feel. I went through this."
Sevyn Streeter
#87. Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of 'If a man die, shall he live again?' is just the way you feel inside you that nothin' can stop you from livin' on.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#88. No matter what you go through, if it's the truth, 9 times out of 10, somebody else has been through the same thing or is currently going through the same thing.
Sevyn Streeter
#89. ...Laura knew the price of motherhood to be pain and responsibility; the reward, love and pride.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#90. Many hands were willing to perform the last tender ministrations. It is characteristic of the small town and rural districts. Sympathy there takes concrete form. It becomes cakes and cinnamon rolls and sitting up nights, husking corn and washing dishes and closing the eyes of the neighboring dead.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#91. I just want to give people the best album that I possibly can.
Sevyn Streeter
#92. This is why i hate social media. It gives a voice to people who dont (sic) deserve one.
Gary Streeter
#93. My favorite song I ever wrote is 'Yeah 3x' because it was my first placement. It was with a great artist, Chris Brown, and I couldn't believe it at the time. Honestly, I still can't really believe it! It is the first time someone ever gave me a shot, so that is my favorite.
Sevyn Streeter
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