Strokes Your Quotes

#1. Luck is a fickle girl who doesn't like lingering in any one place; she strokes your hair back from your brow, kisses you quickly and flits away. Lady Misfortune, by contrast, presses you tightly to her loving heart; she says she's not in a hurry, sits down beside your bed and knits.

Heine

#2. 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

#3. Sometimes I get lost in the rhythm of the paddling. I even count the strokes it takes to get me to a point of land, The play of the muscles in one's arms and shoulders, and the feel of palm against worn wood, are preferable to glancing at a speedometer

Richard Proenneke

#4. If you're poor old Mario Incandenza you take your competitive strokes where you can find them.

David Foster Wallace

#5. As our dear Husband, in wooing his [church], received many a black stroke, so his bride, in wooing him, gets many blows, and in this wooing there are strokes upon both sides

Samuel Rutherford

#6. 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

#7. If you overdo it, there are consequences.
What kind of consequences?
Strokes, brain hemorrhages, aneurysms ...
How do you know when you have overdone it?
When you have a stroke, brain hemorrhage or an aneurysm.

Ben Aaronovitch

#8. Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes.

Gerrit Noordzij

#9. 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

#10. He strokes my hair and tells me stories and tucks me close like he's afraid I'll disappear. He paints pictures of people and places until I'm drowning in a drug of dreams to escape a world with no refuge, no relief, no release but his reassurances in my ear.

Tahereh Mafi

#11. Mum and Dad died of heart problems, my grandparents died of it, my sister has had mini strokes, my brother has had a heart attack - it's genetic; there's nothing I can do.

Paul O'Grady

#12. 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

#13. His billiards lessons regarding double kisses, push strokes, butt caps, creeping angles of incidence, and snatches began to sound like flirting.

Jennifer Harrison

#14. Bad dental hygiene can lead to respiratory infections and an increased risk for heart disease and strokes.

Mallory Ortberg

#15. I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

Arnold Palmer

#16. Spend some memorable moments in London, under the eve of exciting surroundings. Let your fantasies come true during the sessions of Oriental massage London. Your companion during massage session will give you extra high shots and strokes for the fulfillment of your sultry dreams.

Alex Hayden

#17. He keeps it soft and concise, and I imagine he kisses the same way he writes. Gentle strokes of the keys, each word thought through and completed with purpose.

Colleen Hoover

#18. I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.

Patrick Carney

#19. Try finger painting instead of such careful brush strokes.

A.M. Leibowitz

#20. Take nine strokes off your score. Skip the last hole.

Bob Hope

#21. You don't need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement.

Amit Ray

#22. My whole premise has been, right from the beginning, that it would take me a lifetime to learn to explain myself as an artist. As you grow older, you learn what to do and what to leave out. You kind of simplify your work and get the same thing done with fewer strokes. It's pretty interesting to me.

Tony Bennett

#23. It's not in your eyes
Your eyeballs won't change
It's the muscles around your eyes

The Strokes

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. The art of achievement is the art of making life - your life - a masterpiece.

Wilferd Peterson

#27. If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his strokes. It would be justifiable homicide if he wound up his pitiable exhibition by applying his niblick to your head.

Harry Vardon

#28. There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course.

Julia Glass

#29. Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.

Ben Hogan

#30. As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation.

Mary Higgins Clark

#31. Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour.

Kenneth Clark

#32. Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?

Nikola Tesla

#33. One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.

Vladimir Lenin

#34. When introducing a character, you're usually better off sticking with broad strokes. The important thing at that point is not what color hair someone has or how tall they are, but rather, what kind of person they are.

Jason Black

#35. With a little hum of pleasure, he strokes my leg, his expression content, his body loose-limbed and lazy. Give the man a blow job and a little unexpected ass play, and he's practically purring.

Kristen Callihan

#36. Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

Peter Hammill

#37. 1960, I was 20 years old, and I was leading the U.S. Open. Now, I wasn't leading by several strokes, but I was leading the U.S. Open and playing with Ben Hogan, had a very good chance to win, nine holes to go, I was leading. I was still leading with six holes to play.

Jack Nicklaus

#38. For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.

Julian Casablancas

#39. He shifts enough to bring us closer, and the rock gently rolls. His tender gaze strokes my face. "You are my rock." He squeezes my hand the way I squeezed his on the soccer field at Newtown High.

Anyta Sunday

#40. Ieyascu looks bright and flat, heavy strokes on an invisible canvas.

Alaya Dawn Johnson

#41. Is as if the music is another character or as if it was a part of this great opera. I also through about this project as a structure or as a sculpture made out of colors, rhythm, characters, and brush strokes, but with every single one of these always supporting one another.

Alex Abreu

#42. This sense of eagerness, of hope and of secret excitement. It was as if normal existence were a photograph of shapeless things in badly printed colors, but this was a sketch done in a few sharp strokes that made things seem clean, important - and worth doing.

Ayn Rand

#43. Everyone praises Sachin Tendulkar. He may be a genius in his own right but in my book, Rahul Dravid is the artist. Dravid's defence tactics, his strokes, his cuts, his grace are truly amazing. I'd like to meet the chap sometime and take my hat off to him.

Peter O'Toole

#44. Ardiles strokes the ball like it was a part of his anatomy.

Jimmy Magee

#45. One of the reasons they [the Japanese] have bad eyesight is probably these microscopic characters [furigana] which have many lines and strokes to them.& We wonder why they went mad and bombed Pearl Harbor when they knew they couldn't win. That [the Japanese language] would be a reason.

L. Ron Hubbard

#46. Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

Rabindranath Tagore

#47. A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive.

Roger Mahony

#48. I wonder at times if we're not all blind. It just seems there are an abundance of books unread, paint strokes not admired, and performances unattended. So much attention painstakingly sought and not given.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#49. Grain is the brush stroke of photography.

Constantine Manos

#50. A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes.

Margaret Hughes

#51. Mirren pulled the knife blade across the vampire's throat before he could answer. Two more strokes and it was done. Sometimes, one didn't need a sword to take a head. Rage and a good, sharp knife worked just fine.

Susannah Sandlin

#52. A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.

Neville Cardus

#53. 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

#54. She knocked a third time, three regular strokes, gentle, but perfectly distinct, and with meaning in them; for, modulate it with what cautious art we will, the hand cannot help playing some tune of what we feel , upon the senseless wood.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#55. Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.

Faran Tahir

#56. Strokes are categorized as either bleeding into the brain or a blockage in blood supply, known as an ischemic stroke. The latter are overwhelmingly more common, compromising about 87 percent of all stroke events.

David Perlmutter