#brush

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing. ↗

— Christopher Fry

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Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush. ↗

— John Gibbon

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I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush. ↗

— Graham Hill

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At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#brushes #force #frustrated #getting #go

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand. ↗

— Berthe Morisot

#hand #painters #real #their #understand

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#revolver #sherlock-holmes #steel-poker #toothbrush #watson

Sometimes I get so wrought up being brushed, poked and pinned all day. ↗

— Carol Alt

#being #brushed #day #get #i

Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating. ↗

— Marian Anderson

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It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds. ↗

— Samuel Adams

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