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Painting is like golf; the fewer strokes I take, the better the picture. — John Marin

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

You don't need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement. — Amit Ray

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

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike. — Ben Jonson

Ardiles strokes the ball like it was a part of his anatomy. — Jimmy Magee

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

I am opposed to heart attacks and cancer and strokes the way I am opposed to sin. — Mary Lasker

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

President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes. — Bob Hope

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

Take nine strokes off your score. Skip the last hole. — Bob Hope

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

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences. — T.D. Jakes

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

Wasted strokes, like missed deadlines, are preventable and costly. — Lorii Myers

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 adventures
Flashed 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

I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun. — Patrick Carney

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

Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own. — Ben Hogan

If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body. — Alexander Hamilton

It's not in your eyes
Your eyeballs won't change
It's the muscles around your eyes — The Strokes

Effective visions are lived in details, not broad strokes. — Tom Peters

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

There is no game like the direct attack. Fancy strokes, while effective to watch, do not bring the results a fast driving game does. — Helen Wills

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

In a perfect patch of paradise he stays immobile for an eternity while the predawn breath strokes his skin and kisses each vertebrae down his spine. — Poppet

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

At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of the strokes themselves. — Chuck Close

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

I used to be afraid of things like strokes, but I've now discovered that the fear of the stroke is worse than the stroke itself. — Ram Dass

It lightens the stroke to draw near to Him who handles the rod. — Washington Irving

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness. — Julia Ward Howe

Yo, I'm the illest. Plus I know more different strokes than Arnold and Willis. — Big Daddy Kane

And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas. — Cleo Moore

The blades sang like the strokes of a hammer on a blacksmith's anvil echoing in the empty churchyard. — Stanley Goldyn