#stroke

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

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#every #logic #philosopher #picture #pure

Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#does #god #listen #me #mean

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#bad #did #had #how #impediment

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

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

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

— Don Marquis

#epigram #like #newspaper #platitude #stroke

Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won. ↗

— Peter Mayhew

#chess #front #game #hair #having

In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can't say, 'Oh, I don't feel well, so I'm going to put out a crappy plate.' ↗

— Bryan Volpenhein

#being #cooking #crappy #each #feel