Quotes with strikes

  • Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.
  • One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
  • I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.
  • Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.
  • The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
  • Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
  • The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
  • The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • André Gide I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Robert Smith Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.
    Robert Smith
     
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  • Robert Burton A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Bret Harte And ever since then, when the clock strikes two, She walks unbidden from room to room, And the air is filled that she passes through With a subtle, sad perfume. The delicate odor of mignonette, The ghost of a dead and gone bouquet, Is all that tells of her story — yet Could she think of a sweeter way?
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Bob Rae As I grow older, I have had to discard some ideas and policies because they no longer make sense. This strikes me as entirely healthy. I would invite others to do the same.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Preface, p. ix
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Bill Veeck Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
    Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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  • Al Sharpton Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Alexander Pope Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Anais Nin Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Andy Rooney Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Jane Porter Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
    Jane Porter
    English writer (1776 - 1850)
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  • Claudius Claudianus He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.
    Claudius Claudianus
    Latin writer of Greek descent (370 - 404)
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  • Buddy Guy I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.
    Buddy Guy
    American blues guitarist and singer (1936 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein If you like dark movies or light movies, 'The Empire Strikes Back' is one of the great movies of all time. It's probably the greatest movie of all time. 'A New Hope' is a superb movie. It's probably the second-greatest movie of all time, but 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Herodotus Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
    Herodotus
    Greek historian (484 - 425)
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  • Bram Stoker It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?
    Dracula
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Angela Carter Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • James Thomson More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
    James Thomson
    Scottish poet (1700 - 1748)
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  • Leo Aikman Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
    Leo Aikman
    American journalist (1908 - 1978)
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