Strokey Quotes

#1. I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

Iain Banks

#2. You don't have a monopoly on pain or loss. It's a level playing field - we all lose - we all grieve. It's what remains afterwards that defines us. Guilt is the poison we pump into our own veins. It's self-inflicted torture.

R.W. Patterson

#3. Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.

Dean Koontz

#4. See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.

W. H. Auden

#5. The naked female body is treated so weirdly in society. It's like people are constantly begging to see it, but once they do, someone's a hoe.

Lena Horne

#6. If you could still run and play, there's no reason to go see a doctor, right?

Logan Mankins

#7. Pioneering don't pay.

Andrew Carnegie

#8. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.

Rajneesh

#9. Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Boothe Luce

#10. I have been happier in the past week than I ever imagined possible and it doesn't have a damn thing to do with the money. You're the real prize. The lottery was just a bonus.

Amanda Young

#11. To know that she could not be near God in peace and love without fulfilling certain mental conditions - that he would not have her just as she was now, filled her with an undefined but terribly real misery ...

George MacDonald

#12. Donald Trump can't come up with a hairstyle that looks human, how can he come up with a plan to defeat ISIS.

Cher

#13. Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country.

Kate Grenville