Nikola Tesla
Inventor, Electrical Engineer
"Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?"
Strokes quotes
Strokes
41 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Luther Vandross
Singer, Songwriter
"I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke."
Gunter Brus
Artist
"The pencil-stroke is like cutting into the heart."
Washington Irving
Author
"It lightens the stroke to draw near to Him who handles the rod."
Vincent Van Gogh
Painter
"Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes."
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"A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes."
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"Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep."
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"Good words are better than bad strokes."
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"I used to be afraid of things like strokes, but I've now discovered that the fear of the stroke is worse than the stroke itself."
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"He stands not alone. You would die before your stroke fell."
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"If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt"
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"One stroke fells not an oke."
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"Great strokes make not sweete musick."
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"You haven't beaten me. You have sacrificed sure footing for a killing stroke."
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"I'm constantly in fear of having a stroke."
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