Strokes Quotes - Page 5

• The muttered hint, "Remember, you have a stroke here," freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.

  John Updike

  Golf, Remember You, Remembers You

  John Updike (2011). “Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf”, p.33, Random House

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• 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.

  Henry Beard

  Golf, Two, Different

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• We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the stroke of His brush.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Worry, May, Canvas

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• 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.

  Bob Ross

  Blue, Black, Want

  Attributed to Bob Ross in "Legacy of Bob Ross lives on through his TV show still airing on public television stations" by David Brancaccio, Marketplace, American Public Media, May 12, 2003.

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• If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs.

  Roger Zelazny

  Lying, Names, Long

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• The idea that a game is anything more than a game... You know, there are people who are basically unbalanced who are going to misuse a game and have bad results. If a golfer who insists on playing during a lightning storm gets hit by a stroke of lightning and is killed nobody says, 'There's golfers dying by the droves being hit by lightning!' You can overdo what you really like, and if you're unbalanced you go overboard.

  Gary Gygax

  Games, Ideas, People

  "Gary Gygax Interview - Part I". Interview with Allen Rausch, pc.gamespy.com. Aug 15, 2004.

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

  Margaret Hughes

  Artist, Cricketers

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• The other day my daughter said, ‘Daddy, guess who my favorite Stroke is?’ And I thought she was going to say me because, oh man, she loves me so much, and she said: ‘Julian! Because he’s the singer

  Nick Valensi

  Daughter, Men, Daddy

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

  Nathan Oliveira

  Recovery, Firsts

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• I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they took no pleasure i' their work, and was afraid o' doing a stroke too much.... I hate to see a man's arms drop down as if he was shot, before the clock's fairly struck, just as if he'd never a bit o' pride and delight in's work. The very grindstone 'ull go on turning a bit after you loose it.

  George Eliot

  Work, Hate, Pride

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

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• Life is better than death. But death comes eventually to everyone. It is something which many in their prime may prefer not to think about. But at 89, I see no point in avoiding the question. What concerns me is: How do I go? Will the end comes swiftly, with a stroke in one of the coronary arteries? Or will it be a stroke in the mind that lays me out in bed for months, semi-comatose? Of the two, I prefer the quick one.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Thinking, Two, Mind

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• To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning.

  William Shakespeare

  Lightning, Nimble, Thunder

  William Shakespeare (1860). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.106

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• At some point in my life I realized I knew only celebrities, I didn't know any real people. I think it was a master stroke of Fate that in researching the greatest celebrity of them all, I would at last be meeting real people, finding them more extraordinary than celebrities; fascinated by them all and enjoying enduring friendships with some.

  Elaine Dundy

  Real, Fate, Thinking

  "Life Itself!". Book by Elaine Dundy, 2001.

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• We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Mind, Infinite, Reason

  "The Shorter Leibniz Texts: A Collection of New Translations". Book edited by Lloyd H. Strickland, p. 11, 2006.

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

  William Randolph Hearst

  Unemployment, Increase, Productivity

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• How a designer gets from thought to thing is, at least in broad strokes, straightforward: (1) A designer conceives a purpose. (2) To accomplish that purpose, the designer forms a plan. (3) To execute the plan, the designer specifies building materials and assembly instructions. (4) Finally, the designer or some surrogate applies the assembly instructions to the building materials. What emerges is a designed object, and the designer is successful to the degree that the object fulfills the designer's purpose.

  William A. Dembski

  Successful, Purpose, Degrees

  William A. Dembski (2006). “No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased Without Intelligence”, p.11, Rowman & Littlefield

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• A picture that is beautiful, or that comes off, or that works, looks as if it was all made at one stroke.

  Helen Frankenthaler

  Beautiful, Looks, Made

  1972 Quoted in Ian Crofton (ed) A Dictionary of Art Quotations (1988).

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• As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Remembrance, Sorrow, Bitter

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.187, Delphi Classics

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• The concentration of all seven behind the stroke should be so strong that you know by feel when that stroke has varied his style or rating without the cox announcing it.

  Phillip Thomas

  Strong, Style, Rowing

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• Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Winning, Men, Dragons

  D. H. Lawrence (1956). “The Virgin and the Gipsy”

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• I have had hundreds and hundreds of stroke cases. My methods cured them--when they were so stiff they were almost dead.

  Richard M. Schulze

  Medicine, Cases, Method

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• As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy....Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad.

  Victor Hugo

  Twilight, Joy, Being Sad

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• The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness.

  Rene Thom

  Math, Ideas, World

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• If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Giving

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.23, OUP Oxford

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• Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world. Knee-deep in grasses and moon daisies, Stella stood and listened, swaying a little as the flowers and trees were swaying, her spirit voice singing loudly, though her lips were still, and every pulse in her body beating its hammer strokes in time to the song.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Song, Flower, Moon

  Elizabeth Goudge (1949). “Gentian Hill”

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