Strokes Quotes - Page 7

• Gently stroke your books, dear stranger, and remember they are dust.

  Miljenko Jergovic

  Book, Dust, Remember

  Miljenko Jergović (1997). “Sarajevo Marlboro”, Penguin Uk

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• If you would listen to every stroke of my brush, I would never need to speak again.

  Janice Tanton

  Creative, Needs, Speak

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

  Salvador Dali

  Two, Luck, Painter

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• Some strong-willed children absolutely demand to be spanked, and their wishes should be granted. Two or three stinging strokes on the legs or buttocks with a switch are usually sufficient to emphasize the point, 'You must obey me.'

  James Dobson

  Strong, Children, Wish

  "The Strong-Willed Child". Book by James Dobson, 1978.

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• I have absolutely no objection to growing older. I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be ageing - I have nothing but gratitude for the passing years. I am ageing - lucky, lucky me!

  Sharon Stone

  Gratitude, Grateful, Years

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• Only now I'm learning to enjoy not being in charge of what the next stroke will do to the whole painting. I'm still learning that there are no mistakes, only discoveries.

  Fernando Araujo Perdomo

  Mistake, Discovery, Serendipity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Nikola Tesla

  Cat, Giants, Ifs

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• When an actor is in the moment, he or she is engaged in listening for the next right thing creatively. When a painter is painting, he or she may begin with a plan, but that plan is soon surrendered to the painting's own plan. This is often expressed as 'The brush takes the next stroke.' In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Listening, Sculpture, Actors

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

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Wife

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• Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Debt, Usage, Payment

  RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1911). “THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR SELF-RELIANCE COMPENSATION”

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

  Helen Wills

  Games, Doe, Watches

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• All red meat contains saturated fat. There is no such thing as truly lean meat. Trimming away the edge ring of fat around a steak really does not lower the fat content significantly. People who have red meat (trimmed or untrimmed) as a regular feature of their diets suffer in far greater numbers from heart attacks and strokes.

  Michael Klaper

  Heart, Vegetarianism, Numbers

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• Take a risk a day - one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it.

  Susan Jeffers

  Risk, Acting, Done

  Susan Jeffers (2014). “Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway”, p.46, Random House

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• Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!

  Walt Whitman

  Military, War, Democracy

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.465, Simon and Schuster

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• If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee and follow the comings and goings of my pen - sometimes effacing, with an unintentional stroke of her paw, lines of whose tenor she disapproved.

  Pierre Loti

  Writing, Cat, Animal

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• Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Luck, Caprice, Form

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.475, Everyman's Library

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• The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or recombination, is one of the most important results of mathematical analysis applied to the facts of neo-mendelism. It gives accident as well as adaptation a place in evolution, and at one stroke explains many facts which puzzled earlier selectionists, notably the much greater degree of divergence shown by island than mainland forms, by forms in isolated lakes than in continuous river-systems.

  Julian Huxley

  Science, Rivers, Lakes

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• Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them.

  William Shakespeare

  Kindness, Grief, Loss

  'Timon Of Athens' act 5, sc. 1, l. [203]

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• Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone ever had, I'd give it to Darwin, ahead of even Newton or Einstein and everyone else. In a single stroke, the idea of evolution by natural selection unifies the realm of life, meaning, and purpose with the realm of space and time, cause and effect, mechanism and physical law. It is not just a wonderful idea. It is a dangerous idea.

  Daniel Dennett

  Ideas, Space, Awards

  "Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life". Book by Daniel Dennett, 1995.

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• A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for.

  Kirk Douglas

  Gratitude, Grateful, Thinking

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• It consists in a watchful, minute attention to the particulars of our state, and to the multitude of God's gifts, taken one by one. It fills us with a consciousness that God loves and cares for us, even to the least event and smallest need of life; and that we actually have received, and do now possess as our own, gifts which come direct from God. It is a blessed thought, that from our childhood God has been laying His fatherly hands upon us, and always in benediction; that even the strokes of his hands are blessings, and among the chiefest we have ever received.

  Henry Edward Manning

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Blessed

  "Sermons".

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• Every putt is different. Your feet dictate the stroke by how they feel on the green. I just never used the same stroke on every putt.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Feet, Different, Green

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

  Joe Laurie, Jr.

  Funny, Distance, Golf

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• He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord.

  Charles Scott Sherrington

  Brain, Nerves, Currents

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• When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to keep up. When such change occurs, the quality of your adaptation to your old habitat is irrelevant, and any competitive advantage you might have had may be eliminated at a stroke.

  Ian Tattersall

  Quality, Would Be, Habitat

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