#stroke

I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her. ↗

— Matthew Perry

#act #attention #charming #date #get

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 am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way. ↗

— Vince Cable

#cats #completely #confront #cut #environmental

A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#alcohol #become #broader #church #enhanced

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram. ↗

— Don Marquis

#epigram #like #newspaper #platitude #stroke

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#broad #definition #far #i #like

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

— Arnold Palmer

#called #eraser #five #game #golf

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#coarse #defending #die #form #head

My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#happily #her #mother #seventies #stroke

I enjoy racing so much. Ever since I was 8 or 9, I trained every stroke, because it was the only way I could race a lot. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#could #enjoy #ever #every #i