Stretch Quotes

#1. I Love You

and your perfect ask

'Would you scratch my back?' is enough

to stretch out hands because folk who love

happily scratch backs where a person can't reach

John Lavan

#2. The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.

Andrew Scott

#3. We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

Horace Silver

#4. I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

Peter Carey

#5. Stretch out your hand to Him like a little child to his father so that He may lead you on.

Francis De Sales

#6. the truth was simple: here stood this door alone on an endless stretch of beach, and it was for only one of two things: opening or leaving closed. The

Stephen King

#7. I hear him in the creak and groan of the floorboards as the summer nights stretch them, can visualize him sitting at the foot of my bed, saying, Other houses have support beams and foundations. Ours has bones and a heartbeat. I

Emily Henry

#8. It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis happened because AAA ratings stopped being something that had to be earned and turned into something that could be paid for.

Matt Taibbi

#9. This is how Thomas lives his life, one misfired dream after the other. That journey may stretch for a lifetime, but even if he doesn't discover that spark until he's an old man, Thomas will die with wrinkles he earned and a smile on his face.

Adam Silvera

#10. In my opinion we can never think of God in big enough terms. He is bigger than our biggest thoughts of Him. Our imaginations cannot stretch wide enough to take in all of God.

Wilferd Peterson

#11. Apple products aren't simple technologies by any stretch, but there is a beautiful simplicity to them.

John Maeda

#12. Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might be the colored portion of the map, is but a little clearing on the banks of the river, which one of those syllables would more than cover.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.

L.M. Montgomery

#14. It's one of my favorite things to do, watch TV and stretch. I'm so flexible. I can put my legs behind my head. I want to be the most flexible person in the world.

Mo Rocca

#15. I'm one of those people. I can be sold by the candy in life, and then it can be stripped away within a split second and I feel like I've seen too much. And that's the way, I've been like that most of my life, so I could never say I was there yet in any stretch of the imagination.

Richard Ashcroft

#16. Over and over again, we lift God out of our reach. Over and over, push Him beyond our grasp, yet still we stretch out our fingers and seek to touch Him.
But find nothing.

Cherie Priest

#17. In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms - so if you would grow, go straight up or deep down.

Denise Levertov

#18. It feels nice to be comfortable, but if we're comfortable all the time, we miss out on the chance to stretch and grow.

Dan Millman

#19. Whenever I've been asked to be in a film, directors only want me to play myself ... I'm fascinated by the thought of being an actor, but it's too hard. And I think Shakespeare-which has been suggested to me-might be a bit of a stretch.

Tom Jones

#20. I love you, too, Stretch," he said, giving my shoulder a brief squeeze. "You're the sister I never really wanted." "Nice.

Molly Harper

#21. I seek speed, clarity, and a practical approach in people I mingle and work with. I can't see myself working in films that stretch beyond maximum four months.

Ravi Teja

#22. Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#23. The words we speak to each other should leave stretch marks, not bruises. Love is always picky about what it says.

Bob Goff

#24. I've always been a guy who likes to stretch my limits - to find out if I have any, really.

Daryl Hall

#25. I enjoy being on my own. I feel like I have more room to stretch. I have to go with the flow.

Johnette Napolitano

#26. It's very important to stretch, because while it's good to look pumped, a lot of the moves are split legs, and twisting fast. So you really, really have to stay supple.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

#27. I try my best to surround myself with people who're smarter than I'm; individuals who add values; who stretch me; optimistic & full of light

Assegid Habtewold

#28. But I didn't walk a single step. I stopped a lot to stretch, but I never walked. I didn't come here to walk. I came to run. That's the reason-the only reason-I flew all the way to the northern tip of Japan. No matter how slow I might run, I wasn't about to walk. That was the rule.

Haruki Murakami

#29. Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Aaron Swartz

#30. Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family. It is a larger embrace. By adopting, we stretch past our immediate circles and, by reaching out, find an unexpected sense of belonging with others.

Isabella Rossellini

#31. His long arms stretch out like comforting pillars, supporting my whole being in his embrace.

Dee Lestari

#32. Everything big, once started little. Discipline yourself and work to become an excellent person at what you want. Stretch yourself daily and go a little further than yesterday. Growth is the key to winning success.

Mark LaMoure

#33. I like to stretch myself and push the envelope, so anything that's new or different or not of my daily routine, I am so for.

Merle Dandridge

#34. Their closeness wouldn't break, but it would bend and stretch into a new shape.

Cassandra Clare

#35. The most wonderful thing, Mary, is that you and I are always walking together, hand in hand, in a strangely beautiful world, unknown to other people. We both stretch one hand to receive from Life - and Life is generous indeed.

Kahlil Gibran

#36. To return to the moment of radical innocence. To paint. To stretch canvas. To find the point of originality. It wasn't a hippie idea. Both of us always hated the hippies, their flowers, their poems, their one idea. We were the furthest thing from hippies. We were the edge, the definers.

Colum McCann

#37. But it's like time is sort of ... balanced. We're young for such a small fraction of our lives, and yet our youth seems to stretch on forever. Then we're old for years and years, but time flies by fastest then. So it all comes out equal in the end, don't you see.

Anne Tyler

#38. I don't stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic.

Marlon Brando

#39. Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide,
First strip off all her equipage of Pride,
Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,
Or Learning's Luxury or idleness,
Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain
Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.

Alexander Pope

#40. In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential. It's no different in the financial realm

Suze Orman

#41. The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

Henry Ward Beecher

#42. The soul must stretch over the cosmogonic abysses, while the body performs its daily duties.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#43. I loved Mississippi and do to this day. The rainbows that stretch from horizon to horizon after a summer rain are the most spectacular I have ever seen.

Charley Pride

#44. Stretch out your tongue and let the words drip on the world like savage shooting muses, never, never to be forgotten, if once fallen on earth, they stand in glittery defloration.

Laura Gentile

#45. Then when you want free association, you could stretch your patient out the way the barber does to lather up his customer, and when the fifty minutes are up, you could tilt the chair forward again and hand him a mirror so he can see what he looks like on the outside after you've shaved his ego.

Daniel Keyes

#46. I always knew I couldn't sing, but I also knew I had a voice that isn't heard by many, and that I could learn how to stretch it and make songs sound good.

Lil' Wayne

#47. There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.

Isabel Paterson

#48. I live for Pilates reformer class. I go at least three times a week. It's a great way to lengthen your muscles, stretch, and kind of relax your mind.

Shawn Johnson

#49. Any fool can love somebody who's perfect, somebody who does everything right. But that doesn't stretch your soul. Your soul only gets stretched when you can still love somebody after they've hurt you.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#50. At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also very abstract, like 'this piece of cardboard is a pool' and so forth.

Ellen Gallagher

#51. Have you never watched a death, reader? In slow cases like blood loss it is not so much a moment as a stretch of ambiguity - one breath leaves and you wait uncertain for the next: was that the last? One more? Two more? A

Ada Palmer

#52. Anyone that does not wish or desire to stretch himself will get nowhere in this life. That is just the way life is.

Sunday Adelaja

#53. Everybody is going through the same thing. The way the schedule is, it's tough down the stretch.

Dany Heatley

#54. You can say what Pilates is in three words. Stretch with Strength and Control. And the control part is the most important because that makes you use your mind.

Romana Kryzanowska

#55. Once we were on the high Plynlimon pass, we stopped to stretch our legs, change drivers, and make a short devotion to the shrine dedicated to the once-popular but now little-known Saint Aosbczkcs, the Patron Saint of Fading Relevance.

Jasper Fforde

#56. All these perfect days, made of glass Put on the shelf where they can cast perfect shadows that stretch and grow on the imperfect days down below ... perfect shadows that shift and glow ... perfect shadows that shift and grow ... " "Sam singing on page 256 of Linger.

Maggie Stiefvater

#57. Can you feel it? The vibration? It's the energy from everyone around us. It's in the air. If you're dying and you think no one can save you, just go out and stretch your arms into the air and absorb some of the energy. You can have eternal life. It's true!

- Runa Molnes

Jo Nesbo

#58. By no stretch of the imagination can you describe me as a Wall Street lawyer. If you're going to do that, you'd have to say that 7,500 people who work here in Southwestern Pennsylvania for the Bank of New York Mellon with good family jobs are Wall Streeters.

Keith Rothfus

#59. I'm a paranoid person. And I think - I'm the kind of person that can come up with lots of negative scenarios. But I remembered thinking that seemed like - that was a stretch even for me.

Conan O'Brien

#60. Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!

Rachael Ray

#61. Are you okay?' 'What do you mean?' 'You stopped talking. Just sat there looking intense.' 'Sorry. I had a stretch of interior monologue. Slightly lyrical. Takes a while to get through.

Michael Marshall Smith

#62. You have a deep desire to be right all of the time and a deeper desire to see yourself in a positive light both morally and behaviorally. You can stretch your mind pretty far to achieve these goals.

David McRaney

#63. When word gets out you're in here, the press'll be all over this place like stretch marks on a ninth-street lap dancer.

Al Stevens

#64. What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long and well-made legs out before you, so that her skirt slips up to the tops of her stockings?

Gilbert Sorrentino

#65. How is it that time can be elastic? Sometimes years seem to go by while you're looking the other way, and sometimes-when you most long for it to pass-life-times can stretch from a few hours

Polly Johnson

#66. For the first stretch of road Olivia's eyes were sealed shut, her breath held hostage in her lungs.
"You might want to open your eyes," Wesley called back knowingly, his muffled voice breaking through both of their helmets. "And don't forget to breathe.

Shawn Kirsten Maravel

#67. The seeds for the Garden were planted in 1973 by a group of volunteers who saw promise in a stretch of Piedmont Park that housed Atlanta's greenhouses and a number of gardens.

Anonymous

#68. If you stretch your soul, you will find your sacred spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#69. Between the beach and the big breaking waves about a quarter mile off was a stretch of bumpy, glistening reef, its usual blanket of water pulled back by a celestial hand.

Mary Ellen Hannibal

#70. A war is coming, a battle that will stretch from the prehistoric forests of the ancient past to the cutting-edge research labs of today, all to reveal a true mystery buried deep within our DNA, a mystery that will leave readers changed forever .

James Rollins

#71. Its was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one's ability and beyond, so that thereafter one has a new standard by which to judge oneself.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#72. In suffering, the soul is stretch to find its full strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#73. If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.

M.H. Abrams

#74. What people look to me for is a whole look. People come to me for icing on the cake, not a basic stretch pant.

Anna Sui

#75. We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.

T.E. Lawrence

#76. For you to really make it in life and not be defeated in life, life demands that you stretch yourself. It is a demand of life.

Sunday Adelaja

#77. Stretch your hand towards those gentle eyes that regard you with such trust

Margaret Atwood

#78. I don't really ever think in terms of what type of person I'd love to play. I usually just read stuff and can tell. It's always fun to get to do things that stretch you and that you don't get to do a lot, but you never know until you see it.

Lauren Bowles

#79. The stretch is registered by a sense organ embedded in the tendon

Matt Wilkinson

#80. He had not stayed, but when he had gone, he hadn't fought, either. He had done nothing but ride twice over the same stretch of prairie, while death had come to both camps.

Larry McMurtry

#81. I wonder whether my love would be divided up more between him and Mama if I'd had him for longer, but I don't think so. I think we stretch out forever in our hearts.

Sarah Rubin

#82. I always think people who stretch themselves are interesting. That's something to admire, isn't it?

Rupert Evans

#83. You come into this world alone and die alone, but there's a really long stretch in the middle that can be extraordinarily meaningful and even fun with the right people. And when it's not fun, they'll be with you, too.

Julie Klam

#84. The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

Rick Hansen

#85. Sometimes due to God's mercy, the time in God's plan can be stretched or extended

Sunday Adelaja

#86. You don't pass up roles that give you the opportunity to stretch and to grow.

Salli Richardson

#87. Sitting tightens your chest. For a great release, lie faceup on a foam roller placed lengthwise under your spine, and stretch your arms out to your side.

Mary Whipple

#88. When I was in my 20s I wasn't sure of myself. Now I can really stretch. I don't have to stay in the box. At this point I can say to myself, So what if I fall, so what? I'm going to get back up.

Jennifer Lopez

#89. Embrace your complexity, stretch your creativity, and live up to your potential, you are what makes the world great.

Dan Wells

#90. Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.

Paul Whiteman

#91. Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard for truth, Attempted to believe Matilda The effort very nearly killed her.

Hilaire Belloc

#92. Beyond those was a stretch of sand and miles of dark blue sea. You couldn't make out a thing on the other side. As a little girl, Maggie believed that the world dropped off out there, that if you swam far enough you might fall into a starry sky.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#93. With a stretch belt, anything can be a dress - a dinner napkin, a tablecloth, even a towel. Just wrap and snap, and away you go in an incredible outfit. Another plus is that the belt will pull all eyes to your lovely curves, and they even look good around a coat or a jacket.

Beth Ditto

#94. People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat.

Antony Starr

#95. It was funny how you could go somewhere and your whole life could stretch out and then you could come home and have it all shrink back to the way it was before. It was funny that it didn't stay stretched.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#96. A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.

Khaled Hosseini

#97. Marriage is not a static state between two unchanging people. Marriage is a psychological and spiritual journey that begins in the ecstasy of attraction, meanders through a rocky stretch of self-discovery, and culminates in the creation of an intimate, joyful, lifelong union.

Harville Hendrix

#98. I enjoy playing with a big band occasionally, but it's too restricting; you really don't have a chance to stretch out and do what you want to do. Getting that thing of relating to a large band is great experience; I relate much better, though, if it's a small band.

Art Pepper

#99. Flying over New Orleans on our approach, I got it. There was no view of land without water - water in the great looming form of Lake Pontchartrain, water cutting through in tributaries, water flowing beside a long stretch of highway, water just - everywhere.

Rachel Sklar

#100. I eat less, stretch, and work out.

Ted Danson