Top 22 Quotes About Stretching The Mind
#1. Well, now that I'm thoroughly and diligently queer, I expected more manly love-talk, you know? Not like Pretty Baby and feeding you grapes and stuff," he snorted.
"Uh, you mean like, hey you bastard I don't have a beer and nobody's sucking my dick, what's wrong with this picture?
Z.A. Maxfield
#2. The joy of reading can take you so many different places. In addition to intelligence and stretching your mind, I just think reading is so crucial in terms of being a well-rounded person.
Gayle King
#4. I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the brass and woodwinds - but only well enough to teach them. If you put a violin in front of me, you wouldn't say, 'My God, that guy can play.' It'd probably sound more like Jack Benny.
Jon Tester
#5. Even winning means nothing. We win because it's an insult to lose.
Brent Weeks
#7. I have a rule: before I can throw anything out, I have to write down five possible uses for it. This stretches my mind and keeps it nimble - just like stretching exercises do for my body.
Anna Olson
#8. When you see the flower of happiness on your way, don't take it immediately; sit and watch it and realise how rare it is!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#10. Three hundred pages of cotton-soft parchment, bound up with a green ribbon. Her writing gushed in watery ripples over the pages, penmanship that called to mind the maddest intricate Belgian lace. Wrought on a pin's head but stretching for miles if unraveled.
Lyndsay Faye
#11. In my mind, I saw a string stretching from Henry's heart at Quiet Waters to my heart. It was taut and it vibrated with Henry's worries and fears and I felt them all.
Deeply. I felt them all.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#12. We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.
Jonathan Sacks
#13. I stop stretching and face him, unwilling to back down from this visual standoff. I'm not going to let him perform his little Jedi mind tricks on me, no matter how much I wish I could perform them on him. He's completely unreadable and even more unpredictable. It pisses me off.
Colleen Hoover
#14. St. Benedict said to take care of your mind, body and soul. I swim for an hour every morning, do 15 minutes of Tibetan stretching and breathing exercises, and play soccer with friends four or more nights a week.
Brunello Cucinelli
#15. The beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptian
heroes, lies in
lives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst of sterile millions
Frank O'Hara
#16. The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.
Thomas Merton
#17. All those people in their black-and-white worlds - they have no idea what they're missing
Wendy Mass
#18. I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
Halldor Laxness
#20. I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
Beverly Cleary
#21. A beach walk is for stretching your legs and your mind, for looking at life with newfound eyes.
Sandy Gingras