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

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

Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak. — William Shakespeare

Tree limbs boasted fresh baby buds and smiled at the brush strokes spread across the sky. — Abby Slovin

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

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection. — Rabindranath Tagore

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks. — John Lyly

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

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

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

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

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

See the first stroke as a start and everything after that a recovery. — Nathan Oliveira

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far. — Ajay Naidu

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

I make a pussy purr with the stroke of my hand. — Ted Nugent

Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance. — Joe Laurie Jr.

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

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

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

Grain is the brush stroke of photography. — Constantine Manos

The finishing stroke of all sorrow. — Juvenal

The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster. — Charles Krauthammer

Outside, the clear-cut strokes of the town clock counting — Joseph Conrad

Handicap: an allocation of strokes on one or more holes that permits two golfers of very different ability to do equally poorly on the same course. — Henry Beard

Music loud, I can't help but wiggle a bit and I think that movement finds its way into the paintings ... I can see it in the strokes. — Laura Harris

A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself. — Neville Cardus

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,
To raise the genius, and to mend the heart — Alexander Pope

God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices. — Peter Kreeft

...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

The art of achievement is the art of making life - your life - a masterpiece. — Wilferd Peterson

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

The Conservatives played like England cricketers - too many rash strokes and run-outs, dropped catches and bowling anywhere but the stumps. — Norman Tebbit

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

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

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

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

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

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

The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night. — Haruki Murakami

My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image. — Karel Appel

These stupid chignons! There's no getting at the real daughter. One simply strokes the bristles of dead women. — Leo Tolstoy

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

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

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

Value, whether the result of massed lines, broad strokes, or washes, is the necessary and only tool for modelling form with light. — Nathan Goldstein

The future may unfold in indelible strokes, but it doesn't mean we have to read the same lines over and over. — Jodi Picoult

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

I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them. — Sia Furler

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

Follow the stroke - or be the stroke that the rest can follow. — Phillip Thomas

Our guns do not strip the foe of life with surgical strokes. They take them in a holocaust. — Steven Pressfield

Creative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius — Marshall Cook

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

The pencil-stroke is like cutting into the heart. — Gunter Brus

The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes. — Bobby Jones