Quotes about Strokes

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes. Votes: 6

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes. Votes: 6

I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser. Votes: 6

And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas. Votes: 6

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

With all of the holiday cheer in the air, it's easy to overlook the ingredients in the foods. Ingredients such as salt, sugar, and fat - all of which leads to diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, strokes, heart disease, and cancer. Votes: 6

Little strokes fell great oaks. Votes: 4

Different strokes for different folks. Votes: 4

You can stroke people with words. Votes: 4

I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows. Votes: 4

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning. Votes: 4

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired. Votes: 4

A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself. Votes: 4

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck. Votes: 4

Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak. Votes: 4

In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings. Votes: 4

I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them. Votes: 4

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. Votes: 4

The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes. Votes: 4

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? And here is my good big centipede! If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race. Votes: 4

I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun. Votes: 3

I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored. Votes: 3

Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability. Votes: 3

You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies. Votes: 3

When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks... hardcore... like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands. Votes: 3

When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks hardcore like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands. Votes: 3

I would like to work with Paul McCartney in the future. Or Brian Seltzer. But I guess like, like I said - I'm into The Strokes, like Ben Folds, Eliot Smith, the Beatles are my favorite, the Beach Boys, Queen. Votes: 3

Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it. Votes: 3

It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band. Votes: 3

I made a very good living as a bad writer. I wrote a lot of comedies, 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' while all my friends were doing the good shows, like 'Cheers,' but I loved it because I got to be a working writer in Hollywood. Votes: 3

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness. Votes: 2

Alaskans are basically 'leave me alone' type people who respect and embrace different strokes. Votes: 2

I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser. Votes: 2

Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves. Votes: 2

I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased. Votes: 2

Aaah, summer - that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It's a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends. Votes: 2

Being sensitive to the problem of women is just another symptom of the quality of movies: I don't think you can do anything that's very sensitive. Everything's sort of broad strokes and big gestures - adventure things that boys, guys want to see. Votes: 2

It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical removal of the left hemisphere can leave people with no articulate speech other than the ability to swear, spout cliches and song lyrics. Votes: 2

For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the sounds coming from buildings, grass and the climbing frame made all the difference to basic survival and ensured that I didn't end up head-first in the sandpit. Votes: 2

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing. Votes: 2

I remember lying on the floor of my room, staring at a black-and-white television for most of the '80s - watching 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' 'Silver Spoons,' Saturday morning cartoons, and 'Murder, She Wrote' while eating an insane amount of Stouffer's French bread pizza. I was sucked into it all. Votes: 2

When the Strokes first started playing gigs, instead of getting into a costume for the shows, we talked about how we should dress every day, in real life, like we're playing onstage. I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence. Or maybe helps you pick up chicks. Votes: 2

Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life. Votes: 2

My focus had always been the on-side. My coach wanted me to work on the offside strokes since he was convinced of my ability and timing on the leg side. I worked hard and firmed up my defensive technique. I am happy getting runs all around the wicket now, and getting a lot of boundaries. No one calls me a 'leggie batsman' anymore. Votes: 2

My strokes just weren't there. Votes: 0

Great strokes make not sweete musick. Votes: 0

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks. Votes: 0

Toronto is hard to capture in a few strokes. Votes: 0

Effective visions are lived in details, not broad strokes. Votes: 0

Take nine strokes off your score. Skip the last hole. Votes: 0

Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back? Votes: 0

The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster. Votes: 0

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep. Votes: 0

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection. Votes: 0

President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes. Votes: 0

Ardiles strokes the ball like it was a part of his anatomy. Votes: 0

A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes. Votes: 0

I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes. Votes: 0

Painting is like golf; the fewer strokes I take, the better the picture. Votes: 0

Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes. Votes: 0

Yo, I'm the illest. Plus I know more different strokes than Arnold and Willis. Votes: 0

Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes. Votes: 0

God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices. Votes: 0

My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image. Votes: 0

Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance. Votes: 0

Bad dental hygiene can lead to respiratory infections and an increased risk for heart disease and strokes. Votes: 0

Creative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius Votes: 0

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech. Votes: 0

I am opposed to heart attacks and cancer and strokes the way I am opposed to sin. Votes: 0

Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course. Votes: 0

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. Votes: 0

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart Votes: 0

To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate. Votes: 0

The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali Votes: 0

It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience. Votes: 0

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far. Votes: 0

The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes. Votes: 0

His billiards lessons regarding double kisses, push strokes, butt caps, creeping angles of incidence, and snatches began to sound like flirting. Votes: 0

The Conservatives played like England cricketers - too many rash strokes and run-outs, dropped catches and bowling anywhere but the stumps. Votes: 0

Value, whether the result of massed lines, broad strokes, or washes, is the necessary and only tool for modelling form with light. Votes: 0

Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly disabling bug, a stroke. Votes: 0

Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you. Votes: 0

Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that's really where the strokes come off the scorecard. Votes: 0

You never get a second chance to make a first impression. God bless those who see beyond our flaws painted in bold strokes. Votes: 0

How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random". Votes: 0

Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes. Votes: 0

There is no game like the direct attack. Fancy strokes, while effective to watch, do not bring the results a fast driving game does. Votes: 0

[A primate ban] would force us to abandon research that could lead to treatments for Alzheimer's, motor neurone disease, strokes and many other illnesses Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes. Votes: 0

Little more black, little more blue. And we'll just put that in using little crisscross strokes or--or little X's, whatever you want to call them. Whatever. Votes: 0

Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius and to mend the heart. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely. Votes: 0

They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought. Votes: 0

Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters. Votes: 0

Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office. Votes: 0

Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home. Votes: 0

We should know at least the broad strokes of the powers that the government's claiming in our name, and using allegedly, on our behalf. And also against us as well. Votes: 0

I must say, I am trying to live my life with a sharpie marker approach. You can't erase the strokes you've made, but each step is much bolder and more deliberate. Votes: 0

We have to understand where we have strategic relationships that require us to take a different approach. I guess the easiest way to describe it is: different strokes for different folks. Votes: 0

To get discounts on some drugs, private insurers are willing to pay top prices for blockbuster pharmaceuticals like Vioxx, despite the fact that Vioxx was rumored to cause fatal strokes and heart attacks. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A copious manner of expression gives strength and weight to our ideas, which frequently make impression upon the mind, as iron does upon solid bodies, rather by repeated strokes than a single blow. Votes: 0

For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

As you know, I was one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before I was born. I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune. Votes: 0

Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new. Votes: 0

I'm a goal setter, but in broad strokes. I don't have a by-October-2009-I-want-to-be-here plan. All I do is work with an element of challenge and an element of enjoyment. With that, anything can happen. Votes: 0

I watch her as she leaves. Everything about her is fluid as a river. Her messy hair, her xylophone voice, the strokes of her paintbrush. Even her camouflage army jacket hangs loose, flowing like ribbons. Votes: 0

A spade may be made of any size, and if the same number of strokes be made in the hour, the requisite exertion will vary nearly as the cube of the length of the blade. Votes: 0

'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . . Votes: 0