Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.
Alaskans are basically 'leave me alone' type people who respect and embrace different strokes.
I have never done a stroke of work in my life.
Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.
Different strokes for different folks.
An abundance of peer-reviewed science is showing that a whole foods, plant-based diet prevents most heart attacks, strokes, and even many kinds of cancer. It gets you to your ideal weight easily and sustainably, reverses Type 2 diabetes, and even fixes erectile dysfunction (because it greatly improves circulation!).
See the first stroke as a start and everything after that a recovery.
Anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just 'talents. ' Hemingway later invented his own form also. The criterion for judging talent or genius is ephemeral, speaking rationally in this world of graphs, but one gets the feeling definitely when a writer of genius amazes him by strokes of force never seen before and yet hauntingly familiar.
One of Cezanne's unfinished paintings. . . appears to be a completed work even though only a few strokes of paint have been put down. My methods are similar. . . I expect each of my paintings to appear whole in every stage.
[For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into a heap of mechanism numbered with its wheels, and weighed with its hammer strokes - this, nature bade not, - this, God blesses not, - this, humanity for no long time is able to endure.
The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.
You haven't beaten me. You have sacrificed sure footing for a killing stroke.
I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.
To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.
You just stroke me, stroke me.
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.
I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.
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.
Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office.
My strokes just weren't there.