Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut '19' was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher or at least update the rules.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often but by striking true.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

I'm not a strikingly handsome guy but I'm in movies.

I open with a clock striking to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time which is four o clock in the morning and saves a description of the rising sun and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

In my second year in graduate school I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good but that which is good is always beautiful.

But it required a disastrous internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

It's the same with visual arts you have some really cool wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more.