Quotes About Stretching Yourself Too Thin

#1. All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#2. Having the experience of senior guys around you just makes things easier as they all contribute ideas and set the standards for the group.

George Bailey

#3. In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin.

Zach Condon

#4. Very often people have a very limited way of thinking.

Sunday Adelaja

#5. She pivoted right, and sensed the vast, open space of the wasteland stretching before her under the opaque sky, a darkness as thin and final as the velvet lining of a shroud (360-361).

Caragh M. O'Brien

#6. Trees down south have a difference to them, a subtle, slinking movement, mile by mile- a gracefulness, a swagger. Lanky trees stretching out their wiry thin, Spanish moss-covered branches, moss that sways and beckons ... come here, come here, it says.

Suzanne Palmieri

#7. What's a space elevator? Simply described, it's a thin ribbon, about 3 feet wide and 60 thousand miles long, stretching upwards from the surface of the Earth. The lower end is bolted to a heavy anchor (think of an oil drilling platform), and the top is capped with a counterweight.

Seth Shostak

#8. The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher, is to help students find themselves.

Derrick Jensen

#9. And just then the thin boy yawned. I had labelled him as an ineffectual sort of lad but he certainly could yawn; it was a stretching, groaning, voluptuous paroxysm which drowned my words and it went on and on till he finally lay back, bleary and exhausted by the effort.

James Herriot

#10. Other than friends and family, my favorite things are New York and stand-up. I love doing comedy in New York - I can do way more stand-up here than in Los Angeles.

Aziz Ansari

#11. The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.

Joe Baca

#13. The sea wears down cliffs, Emma, and turns them into sand; so love wears us down and breaks our defences. You only do not know how much it means, to have people who will fight for you when it goes wrong.

Cassandra Clare