#stroke

I understood the therapists were trying to rebuild Paul's vocabulary, beginning wit the rudiments, but Paul found it taxing, boring, and disturbingly condescending. His loss of language didn't mean he was any less a grown-up with adult feelings, experiences, worries, and problems. [p. 144] ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#experience

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#believe #dead #death #fears #i

There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold. ↗

— Coleman Young

#going #gold #into #single #straw

I'm actually more comfortable playing the stroke victim or the girl with no makeup on, looking scruffy and it's all about what's going on inside rather than on the outside. ↗

— Nicollette Sheridan

#actually #comfortable #girl #going #i

The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle. ↗

— Victoria Abril

#kept #luck #me #miracle #real

The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#night #night-sky #painted #sky #strokes

I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored. ↗

— Gary Coleman

#bored #four #i #last #liked

You can stroke people with words. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#stroke #words #you

Both of us played basketball, and I played tennis and my knees are done. Now if you ask us head-to-head who wins at golf, I'm asking for a couple of strokes. ↗

— Michael Wilbon

#asking #basketball #both #couple #done

With all of the holiday cheer in the air, it's easy to overlook the ingredients in the foods. Ingredients such as salt, sugar, and fat - all of which leads to diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, strokes, heart disease, and cancer. ↗

— Lee Haney

#blood #blood pressure #cancer #cheer #diabetes