#strokes

The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes. ↗

— Norman McLaren

#controls #difficult #element #fewer #higher

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

It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#bands #been #good #good band #i

I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#behind #being #chased #chasing #coming

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

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#beautiful #beautiful paintings #design #japanese #minimum

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#strokes #virtue

Very few people run around and get amnesia and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly of people have strokes and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly things we do on soaps. ↗

— Erika Slezak

#around #come #few #few people #get

Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#came #donna #event #father #group

Different strokes, for different folks. ↗

— Sly Stone

#folks #strokes