Strike and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

- Christian Slater

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

- Frederick William Faber

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

I remember when I wanted every pitch to be a strike.

- Ed Walsh

Anything you strike, anything you shake or rattle, or just anything that can be picked up, and you can create a sound.

- Evelyn Glennie

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

- Eric Hoffer

Yeah, I wanted to know where they got it from, what it was all about, you know, and it seemed to strike something in me that was you know rearing it's head and I still don't know what that is.

- Eric Clapton

I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense.

- Deidre Hall

Players are ready to play, We're not on strike. It's a lockout.

- Dwyane Wade

Firefighters don't go on strike.

- Denis Leary

It's time for the people of the Empire State to strike back.

- Andrew Cuomo

My dad was not someone who you would strike with a billy club and he wouldn't strike back. It just wasn't in him.

- Condoleezza Rice

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

- Charles Krauthammer

Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide.

- Charles Barkley

I mean if someone you know pushes a button you're gonna strike back out.

- Brande Roderick

I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.

- Bayard Taylor

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.

- Bette Davis

After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.

- Alfre Woodard

Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropriate or sane.

- Adam Mansbach

I am constantly re-evaluating my goals and trying to strike items from my to-do list that aren't critical.

- Aisha Tyler