Top 963 Brush Strokes Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.

Take nine strokes off your score. Skip the last hole.

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.

I am incredibly lucky to be alive because one in three people who have strokes don't make it.

It's nothing but a big stroke job in this country. The government strokes you every day of your life. Religion never stops stroking you. Big business gives you a good stroke. And it's one big, transcontinental, cross-country, red, white and blue stroke job... Do you know what the national emblem for this country ought to be? Forget that bald eagle. The national emblem of this country ought to be Uncle Sam standing naked at attention saluting, and seated on a chair next to him, the Statue of Liberty jerking him off. That would be a good symbol for the United Strokes of America.

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.

Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

Do I really believe that? I make a mark, a few strokes, I argue with myself, not do I like or not, but is it true or not? Is that what I mean, is that what I want?

Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability.

Bad dental hygiene can lead to respiratory infections and an increased risk for heart disease and strokes.

The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.

I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks hardcore like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.

I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

Anyone who is drawn in broad strokes either negatively or positively is generally not very interesting to play.

Many players are of the same standard; it all depends on how your strokes land on the other side of court.

At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of the strokes themselves.

Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture.

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

Bhaskar Hazarika makes a strong debut with 'Kothanodi', revisiting stories he read as a kid, painted beautifully with mature strokes.

The Strokes will never get anywhere after that first record.

Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.

A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes.

I like to make broader strokes with politics in my work.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.

And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.

I want the serve of Goran Ivanisevic, the heart of Lleyton Hewitt, the mind of Pete Sampras and the ground strokes of Roger Federer.

I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

Stand-up is very broad strokes, kind of a skeleton of a story or something.

People know the broad strokes of what it's like to be Spider-Man, but I wanted to really get into the details.

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.

When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks... hardcore... like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.

I fell in love with The Strokes when I was 20, and I'm 34 now and still listen to them religiously.

Alaskans are basically 'leave me alone' type people who respect and embrace different strokes.

Music loud, I can't help but wiggle a bit and I think that movement finds its way into the paintings... I can see it in the strokes.

Playing on a low surface is always difficult for anyone to play their strokes. You need to be more of a grafter.

I fell in love with this idea of becoming a swimmer. I knew two strokes at the time but I went and I just loved racing these girls with legs.

To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

People have these ideas about comic books and their adaptations as flashy and sort of surface-y, broad-strokes-type projects, but they're not, really.

The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.

Ardiles strokes the ball like it was a part of his anatomy.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

Yo, I'm the illest. Plus I know more different strokes than Arnold and Willis.

Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

Creative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius

The worst part about ALS is that one day, you're able to brush your teeth; then you'll never be able to brush your teeth again. One day, you're able to walk - you're never going to walk again.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.

The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.

Then I say, "Let's go and brush our teeth." So Lola says, "But Charlie, I can't brush my teeth because somebody is using my tooth." "But who would use your toothbrush?" I ask. Lola says "I think that lion. I saw a lion with my toothbrush and now he's brushing his teeth with it." "But it isn't this your toothbrush Lola?" "Oh," says Lola, "he must be using yours.

It's with my brush that I make love.

I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.

You have to keep on learning all the time unless and until you become perfect in all the strokes.

I will preach with my brush.

The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali

Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.