Top 1200 Different Strokes Quotes & Sayings

Great strokes make not sweete musick.

If you've got a camera that's two feet away from you, you have to bring it all back down. It's a lot more insular. It's different brush strokes. Whereas on stage, you're playing to people who, depending on the size of the theater, might be 40 meters away from you.

The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.

Toronto is hard to capture in a few strokes.

The Strokes, you bond when you're 18, and you're friends. The feeling's different. When all of us get into a room, we feel like the same people from before. We weren't anybody; we were just hanging out. It's hard to understand if you're not in a band. You're one-fifth.

Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

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

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

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

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

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

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

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

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

My strokes come from a lot of different people. I personally take credit for my forehand. My uncle helped me a lot with my backhand.

Effective visions are lived in details, not broad strokes.

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.

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

Handicap: an allocation of strokes on one or more holes that permits two golfers of very different ability to do equally poorly on the same course.

I'm good at the broad strokes but hopeless at the details.

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

It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band.

The most important thing is to find your own path - to be true to yourself. I'm a happily married gay man, but I don't advocate marriage for everybody. Different strokes for different folks.

Different strokes, for different folks.

I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.

Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

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

Most of the films I myself like don't do very well. Every director, he has a choice, whether to go for subtlety and try to articulate every minute detail, or to go for the broad strokes and hope that the people will fill in between the lines. I tend to go for the broader strokes.

For a time, I really thought acting was just impersonating. But impersonation is just big brush strokes, really. What makes acting different is empathy.

Soon he'll come in again and kiss me, but differently. He'll be different and so I'll be different. It'll be different. I thought, 'It'll be different, different. It must be different.

My strokes just weren't there.

"I would be prosecuted and imprisoned if I did what you did." Again, different strokes for the Clintons, look what happened they get a pass, they get to collect all the paychecks and get all the glory, and get the cash while the rest of the people are suffering or dying in Benghazi.

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

We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children.

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

The Strokes will never get anywhere after that first record.

Good words are better than bad strokes.

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

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

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

A small minority of strokes are hemorrhagic strokes, which are caused by bleeding into the brain when a blood vessel bursts.

For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.

Different strokes for different folks.

Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

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

The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the 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.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

We were pretty darn good - fit and ready to play - but today's level is different. Those ground strokes are ever so much faster, coming back at you at a pretty good speed. Footwork-wise, you've got to be ready to hit that next shot. It's a tough time.

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

We have to understand where we have strategic relationships that require us to take a different approach. I guess the easiest way to describe it is: different strokes for different folks.

George: [On the 'Two Virgins' cover] 'What I thought of the sleeve then was the same as I think now: it's just two not-very-nice-looking bodies, two flabby bodies naked. It's harmless, really - different strokes for different folks.

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

I've been dancing since I was two, learning so many different styles. I like dancing to rap and hip-hop, but also the Strokes, the Hives, and the Vines with carefree randomness. There's always a way to move to something.

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