Strokes Quotes
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Strokes Quotes & Sayings
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Anyone who is drawn in broad strokes either negatively or positively is generally not very interesting to play.
— Annette Bening
You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.
— Julian Casablancas
The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.
— Julian Casablancas
A small minority of strokes are hemorrhagic strokes, which are caused by bleeding into the brain when a blood vessel bursts.
— Michael Greger
Toronto is hard to capture in a few strokes.
— Michael Helm
Do not little strokes - fell lofty oaks? Will not continual droppings - wear away stones? Sin, a little thing?
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
— John Lyly
Bragging that you finished in two strokes. Just like a man."--Sloane Barrett, Killer Curves
— Naima Simone
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
— Vincent Van Gogh
We endure the strokes like anvils or hard steel,Till pain itself make us no pain to feel. — John Webster
Little strokes fell great oaks.
— Benjamin Franklin
In the history of mankind, no single person yet has learned to swim by having the strokes explained. At some point, they dive in.
— Charles Martin
My strokes just weren't there.
— Novak Djokovic
Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you.
— Cynthia Hand
Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.
— Lee Trevino
The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali
— Salvador Dali
One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.
— Vladimir Lenin
Barrett strokes one of the chair's slick, bile-green arms. "You can get attached to just about anything, can't you?" he says.
— Michael Cunningham
I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.
— Julian Casablancas
If you're poor old Mario Incandenza you take your competitive strokes where you can find them.
— David Foster Wallace
He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.
— Geraldine Brooks
I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.
— Gary Coleman
I'm working and it's great. Life's great. Believe me on that. So what if I had a stroke? I'm getting on with things.
— Edwyn Collins
The finishing stroke of all sorrow.
— Juvenal
See the first stroke as a start and everything after that a recovery.
— Nathan Oliveira
Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes.
— Gerrit Noordzij
Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.
— Michel De Montaigne
Follow the stroke - or be the stroke that the rest can follow.
— Phillip Thomas
Alaskans are basically 'leave me alone' type people who respect and embrace different strokes.
— Bill O'Reilly
Our guns do not strip the foe of life with surgical strokes. They take them in a holocaust.
— Steven Pressfield
About forty per cent of all strokes are unexplained. They're a mystery, like life itself.
— Robert McCrum
Creative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius
— Marshall Cook
Bad dental hygiene can lead to respiratory infections and an increased risk for heart disease and strokes.
— Mallory Ortberg
In our world of shadows, there is no black and white but a thousand different strokes of light".
— Alice Hoffman
Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly disabling bug, a stroke.
— Ruth Rendell
I make a pussy purr with the stroke of my hand.
— Ted Nugent
The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.
— Bobby Jones
To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.
— Vince Lombardi
Grain is the brush stroke of photography.
— Constantine Manos
Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability.
— Charles W. Pickering
A wave of nausea came over me. And yet. Sometimes you need a stroke of genius and, lo and behold, genius comes and strokes you
— Nicole Krauss
When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks ... hardcore ... like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.
— Tim Heidecker
A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes.
— Margaret Hughes
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
— William Shakespeare
It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience.
— Robert Bateman
Value, whether the result of massed lines, broad strokes, or washes, is the necessary and only tool for modelling form with light.
— Nathan Goldstein
Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.
— Hayley Mills
Shut me up,Turn me on,
Shut me up, — The Strokes
Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.
— Joe Laurie Jr.
My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image.
— Karel Appel
The Conservatives played like England cricketers - too many rash strokes and run-outs, dropped catches and bowling anywhere but the stumps.
— Norman Tebbit
Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.
— Richard C. Armitage
How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random.
— John Guare
The pencil-stroke is like cutting into the heart.
— Gunter Brus
I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.
— Ajay Naidu
And quick strokes of other less intimate adventuresFlashed in her wounded eyes like fireflies. — Roberto Bolano
His billiards lessons regarding double kisses, push strokes, butt caps, creeping angles of incidence, and snatches began to sound like flirting.
— Jennifer Harrison
A massive stroke may kill you instantly, while a series of mini-strokes may disable and kill you over several years.
— Michael Greger
If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt
— George Bernard Shaw
If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body.
— Alexander Hamilton
I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.
— Arnold Palmer
The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.
— Charles Krauthammer
I don't have time for a stroke!
— Jill Bolte Taylor
I have never done a stroke of work in my life.
— Tony Sarg
Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that's really where the strokes come off the scorecard.
— Paula Creamer
Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.
— Sia Furler
The future may unfold in indelible strokes, but it doesn't mean we have to read the same lines over and over.
— Jodi Picoult
Is nature a gigantic cat? If so, who strokes its back?
— W. Bernard Carlson
One stroke fells not an oke.
— George Herbert
Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
— Carly Fiorina
Ieyascu looks bright and flat, heavy strokes on an invisible canvas.
— Alaya Dawn Johnson
Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?
— Nikola Tesla
Putting isn't golf, greens should be treated almost the same as water hazards: you land on them, then add two strokes to your score.
— Chi Chi Rodriguez
These stupid chignons! There's no getting at the real daughter. One simply strokes the bristles of dead women.
— Leo Tolstoy
Good words are better than bad strokes, Octavius.
— William Shakespeare
The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.
— Haruki Murakami
It lightens the stroke to draw near to Him who handles the rod.
— Washington Irving
