Strokes Quotes
432 Strokes quotes by 352 unique authors
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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…
— Jack Nicklaus
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Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.
— Unknown Author
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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
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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…
— Ian Tattersall
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Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on…
— John Owen
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What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos, more than a universe. It…
— James Joseph Sylvester
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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…
— Fernando Araujo Perdomo
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The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still…
— Unknown Author
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Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from the…
— Ludwig Boltzmann
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When introducing a character, you're usually better off sticking with broad strokes. The important thing at that point is not what color hair someone has…
— Unknown Author
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With a stroke of love on the canvas of my soul I'm painting a perfect world with shades of Michelangelo With each promise made in…
— Belinda Carlisle
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People have become separated from their bodies. They are no longer whole. I see them move from their offices to their cars and on to…
— Henry Rollins
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If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much…
— Ehud Barak
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We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.
— Henry David Thoreau
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A writer's voice is not character alone, it is not style alone; it is far more. A writer's voice line the stroke of an artist's…
— Patricia Lee Gauch
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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.
— Richard M. Nixon
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To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.
— Vince Lombardi
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A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.
— Neville Cardus
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Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Strokes Quotes
352 authors contributed a total of 432 Strokes Quotes, led by these top contributors: