Top 272 Strokes Quotes & Sayings

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

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

Great strokes make not sweete musick.

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

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

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

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

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

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

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

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

My strokes just weren't there.

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

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

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

Good words are better than bad strokes.

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

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

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

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

The Strokes will never get anywhere after that first record.

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

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.

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

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

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

Toronto is hard to capture in a few strokes.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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