Strokes Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I have never done a stroke of work in my life.

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

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

It lightens the stroke to draw near to Him who handles the rod.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

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

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.

Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture.

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

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

[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

It's one of those things; you just get a very nice stroke from being included in the next thing.

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

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.

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

Effective visions are lived in details, not broad strokes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.

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.

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.

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

If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt

Great strokes make not sweete musick.

One stroke fells not an oke.

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

You haven't beaten me. You have sacrificed sure footing for a killing stroke.

He stands not alone. You would die before your stroke fell.

Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes.

I don't have time for a stroke!

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.

I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.

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.

The finishing stroke of all sorrow.