The muttered hint, "Remember, you have a stroke here," freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia. — John Updike Copy Share Image
To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to… — Boy George Copy Share Image
There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Don’t worry if I lay my head back and start to snore while we’re flying. It’s normal. I’m just here in case… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate. — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
There sometimes wants only a stroke of fortune to discover numberless latent good or bad qualities, which would otherwise have been eternally… — Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone Copy Share Image
Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination… — Peter Hammill Copy Share Image
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
For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
But I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
With all of the holiday cheer in the air, it's easy to overlook the ingredients in the foods. Ingredients such as salt,… — Lee Haney Copy Share Image
A word is all it takes to put a man in prison, or to seize his property, or to end his life.… — Galen Beckett Copy Share Image
It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
With taxes, if they aren't working right, we can change them with a stroke of the pen. It's basically a market-type mechanism.… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
That experience of touching down in a totally foreign place is like having a blank canvas: You begin with nothing, but stroke… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
When any man expresses doubt to me as to the use that I or any other woman might make of the ballot… — Matilda Joslyn Gage 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
I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But say That death be not one stroke, as I supposed, Bereaving sense, but endless misery From this day onward, which I… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, it probably is not “necessary” for the federal government to tax anyone directly; it could simply print the money it… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it’s really just… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I enjoy racing so much. Ever since I was 8 or 9, I trained every stroke, because it was the only way… — Ryan Lochte Copy Share Image
You have to chase your dreams, no matter what. The impossible just takes a little longer. One stroke at a time, one… — Tori Murden Copy Share Image
Handicap: an allocation of strokes on one or more holes that permits two golfers of very different ability to do equally poorly… — Henry Beard Copy Share Image
Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that. — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It is the direct man who strikes sledgehammer blows, who penetrates the very marrow of a subject at every stroke and gets… — Orison S. Marden Copy Share Image
Only at the end of the last stroke of paint, you can begin to wonder what needs to be done next. — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
Mum and Dad died of heart problems, my grandparents died of it, my sister has had mini strokes, my brother has had… — Paul O'Grady Copy Share Image
When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Taub Therapy gives patients hope that they can recapture the life they had before suffering a stroke or TBI. — Edward Taub Copy Share Image
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I had - there were three strokes, and I lost my ability to read and write and speak, and it really put… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
There are no days in life that are so memorable as those that vibrate to some stroke of the imagination. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that… — A. W. Tillinghast Copy Share Image
