For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Retirement is a very subjective thing. There are guys I know who retire and they're very happy and they never miss work… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I hate the beach. I hate the sun. I'm pale and I'm redheaded. I don't tan - I stroke! — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as… — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
George: [On the 'Two Virgins' cover] 'What I thought of the sleeve then was the same as I think now: it's just… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
I paint a woman's big rounded buttocks so that I want to reach out and stroke the dimpled flesh. — Peter Paul Rubens Copy Share Image
I would like to work with Paul McCartney in the future. Or Brian Seltzer. But I guess like, like I said -… — Drake Bell Copy Share Image
When everything is added up, the frequent blows weighted against the sporadic triumphs, this is I have to say not just a… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
For the unified mind in accord with the Way all self-centered striving ceases. Doubts and irresolutions vanish and life in true faith… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I… — Amanda McKittrick Ros Copy Share Image
When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
Come to the bridal-chamber, Death! Come to the mother's, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath! Come when the… — Fitz-Greene Halleck Copy Share Image
As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain; if thou hast lost… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone… — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
1960, I was 20 years old, and I was leading the U.S. Open. Now, I wasn't leading by several strokes, but I… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
Disco is funky when you take one record at a time. It's just that they narrowed it down to one beat to… — George Clinton Copy Share Image
Though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure; And spring comes green again to trees and grasses Where petals have been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
It is well-known that there are many faces in the world over the finishing of which nature did not take much trouble,… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image