Stroke Quotes

345 quotes by 299 authors

There are no days in life that are so memorable as those that vibrate to some stroke of the imagination. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The dachshund is a perfectly engineered dog. It is precisely long enough for a single standard stroke of the back, but you aren't paying for… — Mary Doria Russell
She licked again, taking her time,even though she didn't need to; her first stroke numbed the bite site. No, this second taste was for her,… — Larissa Ione
The urge at that moment to reach across and touch Willow--to link his fingers through hers as she rested her hand on her thigh, or… — L.A. Weatherly
The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms their thinking about… — Parker J. Palmer
An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who does not believe… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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… — H.G. Wells
Bluebell,â€ she said, remembering from Erotique. â€œPretty name.â€ â€œI call Dmitri Dark Overlord.â€ â€œShae,â€ Dmitri said and the female vampire rose at once to walk… — Nalini Singh
Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control… — Jonathan Franzen
I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may… — Gore Vidal
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke. — Henrik Ibsen
In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb can… — Ian Mcewan
I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you must begin from zero, because the past… — Isabel Allende
It had become usual to give Napoleon the Credit for every Successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often hear one hen… — George Orwell
Raphael lifted a finger, tracing it over her cheekbone. She flinched. Not because he was hurting her. The opposite. The places he touched ... it… — Nalini Singh
Thereâ€™s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but itâ€™s really just the inability to… — Glen Duncan
One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning. — Alice Munro
Behind every coincidence, every stroke of luck, and every miracle, there is inevitably a cold and calculating mind. — Ryohgo Narita
Never! Never, Marge. I can't live the button-down life like you. I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles. Sure,… — Matt Groening
I recently read in the book My Stroke of Insight by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor that the natural life span of an emotionâ€”the average… — Tara Brach

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299 authors contributed a total of 345 Stroke Quotes, led by these top contributors: