Strokes Quotes

Strokes Quote of the day

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

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

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.

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.

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

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

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.

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

Grain is the brush stroke of photography.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

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

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

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

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

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.

This would, at a stroke, reducetherise in prices, increase productivity, and reduce unemployment.

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.

The pencil-stroke is like cutting into the heart.

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.

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.

Do I really believe that? I make a mark, a few strokes, I argue with myself, not do I like or not, but is it true or not? Is that what I mean, is that what I want?

If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are able to paint that tree with more conviction, even if done with a few broad strokes.

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.

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

Different strokes for different folks.

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

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

Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.

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

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

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.

Toronto is hard to capture in a few strokes.

How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”.

You just stroke me, stroke me.

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

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.

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