Streaks Quotes - Page 9

I have watched hundreds of Christians in my time become financially blessed then develop an acquisitive streak that in turn makes their souls as metallic as the coins they seek.

Selwyn Hughes

Christian, Blessed, Soul

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Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God.

Hans Christian Andersen

Girl, Stars, Fall

Hans Christian Andersen (2015). “Andersen's Fairy Tales and Stories: Fairy Tales, Folktales Collections”, p.293, 谷月社

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Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken.

Misty May-Treanor

Sacrifice, Winning, Years

Misty May-Treanor (2010). “Misty: Digging Deep in Volleyball and Life”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.

Claude Monet

Art, Thinking, Squares

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Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of like exhibitionism in private. And there's also a strange loneliness, and a desire to have some kind of conversation with people, but not a real great ability to do it in person.

David Foster Wallace

Strong, Real, Loneliness

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To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write.

Richard Hugo

Real, Nice, Writing

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They rode on and the sun in the east flushed pale streaks of light and then a deeper run of color like blood seeping up in sudden reaches flaring planewise and where the earth drained up into the sky at the edge of creation the top of the sun rose out of nothing like the head of a great red phallus until it cleared the unseen rim and sat squat and pulsing and malevolent behind them.

Cormac McCarthy

Running, Light, Blood

Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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