Stroked Quotes
58 quotes by 47 authors
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The best stroked putt in a lifetime does not bring the aesthetic satisfaction of a perfectly hit wood or iron shot. There is nothing to…
— Al Barkow
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A computer and a cat are somewhat alike - they both purr, and like to be stroked, and spend a lot of the day motionless.…
— John Updike
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Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked my cheek as…
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered.
— Joey Skaggs
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When I lived in rural Oxfordshire, I was walking home across a field when I stroked a cow. The damn thing butted me in the…
— Mark Lawrenson
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Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have…
— Edward Dahlberg
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I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life," she'd wept to me once, in the days after she learned she…
— Cheryl Strayed
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left…
— Ben Jonson
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Mama stroked his dinger, Daddy got stinky finger.
— Frank Zappa
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Fang’s hand gently smoothed my hair off my neck. My breath froze in my chest, and every sense seemed hyperalert. His hand stroked my hair…
— James Patterson
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For a while he'd tried molding himself into the tragic Romantic hero, brooding and staring clench-jawed off into space as he composed dark verse in…
— Christopher Moore
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How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some…
— Dorianne Laux
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The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads -none of us ever got enough of that. We all yearn in…
— Mitch Albom
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Sometimes I had the feeling that all of us in his family were like pets to him. The dog you take for a walk, the…
— Bernhard Schlink
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The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. “You’ll find,†he remarked gently, “that the only thing you can do easily is be…
— Norton Juster
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I wept bitterly, surrendering momentarily to my fear and heartbroken confusion, but slowly I began to quiet a bit, as Jamie stroked my neck and…
— Diana Gabaldon
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I stroked Eric's hair, tucking some behind his ear. His eyes on mine were intent, and I knew he was waiting for me to speak.…
— Charlaine Harris
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For once, he slept first. She lay in the dark, listening to him breathe, stealing a little of his warmth as her own body cooled.…
— Nora Roberts
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Leo smiled and stroked her hair. 'We'll both be fine, Marks. We've just begun our journey...and there's so much we have yet to do.' He…
— Lisa Kleypas
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She had come to him to escape her mother's world, a world where all bodies were equal. She had come to him to make her…
— Milan Kundera
Who Wrote These Stroked Quotes
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