Straight Strokes

Famous quotes containing the words straight and/or strokes:

    “when the moment comes
    we’ll talk turkey,
    we’ll shoot words straight from the hip,
    we’ll play it as it lays.
    Yes,
    when death comes with its hood
    we won’t be polite.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)