Strokes Quotes - Page 24

• No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?

  H. G. Wells

  Art, Lying, Believe

  H. G. Wells (2016). “The Time Machine”, p.90, H. G. Wells

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• The pencil-stroke is like cutting into the heart.

  Gunter Brus

  Heart, Cutting, Pencils

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.

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• Sometimes one sees people butter their slices of bread with long, slow, admiring strokes in the same way in which Tom Sawyer's friends whitewashed the fence. Never butter an entire slice of bread at one time.

  Mary Elizabeth Clark

  Long, People, Way

  Mary Elizabeth Clark, Margery Closey Quigley (1939). “Etiquette Every Child Should Know”

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• My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel.

  Amanda McKittrick Ros

  Writing, Peculiar, Feels

  Amanda McKittrick Ros, Frank Ormsby (1988). “Thine in storm and calm: an Amanda McKittrick Ros reader”, Blackstaff Pr

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• These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and any broad literary stroke with outright hate. The result is a strange and arid literary climate where a meaningless little fingernail paring like Nicholson Baker's Vox becomes an object of fascinated debate and dissection, and a truly ambitious American novel like Matthew's Heart of the Country is all but ignored.

  Stephen King

  Country, Hate, Heart

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• 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.

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  Ram Dass

  Used, Used To Be

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• The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.

  Norman McLaren

  Numbers, Quality, Elements

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• My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again.

  Mona Simpson

  Mother, Parent, Income

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• Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how dreary and burdensome and filled with anomie are the remainder of one's waking hours trapped in the shackled lock-step of the merely ordinary, the barely acceptable, the just okay and not a stroke better.

  Harlan Ellison

  Perfection, Excellence, Waking

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

  Mary Lasker

  Cancer, Heart, Way

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• 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.

  David Perlmutter

  Blood, Brain, Events

  "Olive Oil Cuts Stroke Risk?" by David Perlmutter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2011.

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• Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with a gentle second stroke, as though it would check old Time, and have him stay his pace in pity, but measured it with one sledge-hammer beat, as if its business were to crush the seconds as they came trooping on, and remorselessly to clear a path before the Day of Judgment.

  Charles Dickens

  Crush, Hammers, Pace

  Charles Dickens (1871). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces”, p.225

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• The public, as a whole, does not demand or appreciate the pure expression of beauty. Its cultured members expect to find in poetry, if anything, repose from material and nervous anxiety; an apt or chiselled phrase strokes the appetites and tickles the imagination. The more general public merely enjoys its platitudes and truisms jerked on to the understanding in line and rhyme; truth put into metre sounds overwhelmingly true.

  Harold Monro

  Art, Expression, Appreciate

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• The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cheer, Powerful, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.238, Harvard University Press

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

  Nathan Goldstein

  Light, Tools, Lines

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• Grain is the brush stroke of photography.

  Constantine Manos

  Photography, Brushes, Brush Strokes

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• You can stroke people with words.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Writing, People, Flattery

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.207, New Directions Publishing

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• Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

  Fred Perry

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Sports

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• Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to remark upon this singular and gratifying fact. By the most astounding stroke of luck an infinitesimal portion of all the matter in the universe came together to create you and for the tiniest moment in the great span of eternity you have the incomparable privilege to exist.

  Bill Bryson

  Luck, Together, Sound

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• Greet everyone you meet with a warm smile. No matter how busy you are, don't rush encounters with coworkers, family, and friends. Speak softly. Listen attentively. Act as if every conversation you have is the most important thing on your mind today. Look your children and your partner in the eyes when they talk to you. Stroke the cat, caress the dog. Lavish love on every living being you meet. See how different you feel at the end of the day.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Smile, Dog, Children

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

  Billy Graham

  New Beginnings, Past, Land

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.27, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Neville Cardus

  Telling The Truth, Should, Cricket Funny

  Neville Cardus (1930). “Cricket”

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• A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive.

  Roger Mahony

  Healing, Alcohol, Drug

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• Since the moment of self-consciousness comes to a permanent end - and a new journey begins- is such a decisive stroke or milestone in the contemplative life, I can only speculate why so little has been said of this breakthrough; in fact , I may never get over the silence on the part of writers who say nothing about this second movement.

  Bernadette Roberts

  Journey, Contemplative Life, Self

  Bernadette Roberts “Experience of No-Self, The: A Contemplative Journey, Revised Edition”, SUNY Press

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• Everyone praises Sachin Tendulkar. He may be a genius in his own right but in my book, Rahul Dravid is the artist. Dravid's defence tactics, his strokes, his cuts, his grace are truly amazing. I'd like to meet the chap sometime and take my hat off to him.

  Peter O'Toole

  Book, Cutting, Artist

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