Different Stroke Quotes

#1. The world swarms with people, each one drowning, but each swimming a different stroke to the far shore.

Ray Bradbury

#2. Forgive because it makes you feel good.

Deepak Chopra

#3. Each stroke of your fingers is a different word that describes the story. By itself it's meaningless, but - " I pushed down on a few fingers helping her play a few notes. "String them together and you have a melody. You have a story. So, Saylor, what story do you want to tell?

Rachel Van Dyken

#4. Deep sadness is an artist of powers that affects people in different ways. To one it comes like the stroke of an arrow, shocking all the emotions to a sharper life. To another, it comes as the blow of a crushing strike.

Ambrose Bierce

#5. The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

Thomas Overbury

#6. I do feel responsible. He used to be able to look after himself. Now he can't. That's so different, so strange. The big question is: Is more improvement really possible, or should I stop pushing him?' [p. 153]

Diane Ackerman

#7. Philanthropy and social change work are at their best when they are driven by your values and connected to what you care about most.

Charles Bronfman

#8. Every putt is different. Your feet dictate the stroke by how they feel on the green. I just never used the same stroke on every putt.

Jack Nicklaus

#9. After a stroke we can re-learn how to talk, because by practicing we can establish different pathways in the brain, circumnavigating the damaged part.

Philippa Perry

#10. I've reached that final moment of editing a book - the one where the text manifests as a living breathing person and starts slugging me in the face.

Richard Due

#11. We don't know who we are or how to function, much less how to bloom. Blind nature. Homo sapiens. Who's kidding whom?

Jeanette Winterson

#12. She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.

Boris Pasternak

#13. I never intended to be a journalist. Frankly, I don't think I ever was a journalist. I backed into it.

Laurence Shames