Top 100 Stretched Quotes

#1. The baby's body lay in a bassinet. He was the size of a half loaf of bread, his bones light as a bird's and stretched with thin skin.

Jodi Picoult

Stretched Quotes #1841
#2. Daniel stretched his arm around her and guided her head toward his shoulder. Little - known fact about angels: We make excellent pillows.

Lauren Kate

Stretched Quotes #3876
#3. Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.

K.P. Yohannan

Stretched Quotes #9474
#4. the cow crossly shook her head and craned her neck, mooing plaintively, and beyond the black barns of Meliuzeievo the stars twinkled, and invisible threads of sympathy stretched between them and the cow as if there were cattle sheds in other worlds where she was pitied. Everything

Boris Pasternak

Stretched Quotes #10648
#5. Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north ... As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.

E.B. White

Stretched Quotes #11107
#6. I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

Peter Carey

Stretched Quotes #11731
#7. I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

Mark Twain

Stretched Quotes #14723
#8. And the smile I'd been waiting for stretched across his face like the sun breaking free of the clouds.

Stephenie Meyer

Stretched Quotes #25015
#9. We were girls once. As hard as that is to believe. //Oh you can't see it now--our bodies have stretched and sagged, faces and necks drooping. That's what happens when you get old. Every part of you drops, as if the body is moving closer to where it's from and where it'll return.

Brit Bennett

Stretched Quotes #30063
#10. When she walked ... she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.

Sarah Orne Jewett

Stretched Quotes #36958
#11. In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.

Harriet Tubman

Stretched Quotes #38464
#12. I'm tall with broad shoulders. And my waist is small. I'm into fashion, so I like the way clothes lay on me. I'm pretty much a normal person's size, just stretched out.

Tyson Chandler

Stretched Quotes #42979
#13. So, gently, and using the greatest of care, the elephant stretched his great trunk through the
air, and he lifted the dust speck and carried it over and placed it down, safe, on a very soft
clover

Dr. Seuss

Stretched Quotes #48192
#14. You've been really hard on my clothes lately", I said. I pushed him away just enough to slip out of my T-shirt and drop it on the floor before he turned it into a stretched-out rag.
"I've been really hard ... and your clothes are in my way.

Jordan Castillo Price

Stretched Quotes #48246
#15. until our faith is tested through challenges, obstacles, trials, and storms, it cannot be stretched to new lengths, deepened to new depths, nor grown to new heights. Faith must be tried to its limits before it can grow beyond those limits.

Christine Caine

Stretched Quotes #52333
#16. Sometimes, I can see the future stretched out in front of me - just as plain as day. The future hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me.

Lorraine Hansberry

Stretched Quotes #60308
#17. The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those years of infancy and puberty, adolescence and young adulthood. That's when she needs you at her side.

Tom Brokaw

Stretched Quotes #67884
#18. But while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the limit we are getting. The darker it gets, the faster we're driving

Douglas Adams

Stretched Quotes #69728
#19. cases and stretched

Julia Golding

Stretched Quotes #74703
#20. Long strands of drool stretched from between his fangs and dripped on the pavement, sending a heady scent of jasmine to swirl through the air. Perfumed monster spit. What was the world coming to?

Ilona Andrews

Stretched Quotes #76912
#21. A mind once stretched by thoughts of heaven will never regain it's original shape (a shameless tweak of a quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, US author and physician)

Serenity McLean

Stretched Quotes #80724
#22. Not that the man needed clothes. God meant for that piece of perfection to have nothing masking the luscious, tanned flesh stretched taut over beautiful muscles.

Rena Marks

Stretched Quotes #82220
#23. When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.

G.K. Chesterton

Stretched Quotes #83761
#24. I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Stretched Quotes #84443
#25. 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

Stretched Quotes #87036
#26. Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.

Billy Cannon

Stretched Quotes #88746
#27. In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can't seem to get there no-how. I can't seem to get over that line.

Harriet Tubman

Stretched Quotes #92040
#28. Enormous. Cold. It stretched on forever, in every direction. If I hadn't know otherwise, I would've thought that the whole world was ocean.

Helene Wecker

Stretched Quotes #92460
#29. His intelligence stretched her to the limits, and then changed what those limits were.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Stretched Quotes #92988
#30. Music overwhelmed me, soaked into my skin like water. I didn't have words for the squiggles and dashes across the pages, or the way his fingers stretched across the keys to make my heart race. If I could hear only one thing for the rest of my life, this was what I wanted.

Jodi Meadows

Stretched Quotes #102425
#31. How many times can our emotions be tied to someone else's - be pulled and stretched and twisted - before they snap? Before they can never be mended again?

Stephanie Perkins

Stretched Quotes #105931
#32. The ideal is that your faith not be rigid and unpliable, but instead that it is capable of being stretched and remolded over time, and that your theological and spiritual life grows deeper and more mature with the passing years.

Adam Hamilton

Stretched Quotes #108709
#33. So damn beautiful."
She grinned. "So you've said."
Perched on his elbow, stretched alongside her body, he'd say it again and again until she tired of hearing it. "You're beautiful."
"Uh huh."
"So fucking bea-"
"All right, Casanova. Enough!

Pam Godwin

Stretched Quotes #113046
#34. Julian wanted to laugh too. He wished he could. He wished he could forget the darkness that flickered at the edge of his vision. He wished he could close his eyes and fall, forgetting for one moment that there was no net stretched out below to catch him.

Cassandra Clare

Stretched Quotes #121216
#35. The morning sagged and decided to last for several years. I couldn't remember the last time minutes and hours stretched so interminably.

Jojo Moyes

Stretched Quotes #132934
#36. I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.

Jonathan Tropper

Stretched Quotes #134859
#37. And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.

Jerry Garcia

Stretched Quotes #136137
#38. Jesus is teaching and wants you to learn. This means you will be stretched. Jesus does not want you stuck in a bonehead English class, which I was for several years.

Jonah Books

Stretched Quotes #137630
#39. I pictured Phillip in the tree. How his arm stayed stretched out, his hand empty, long after my dad pulled me away.

Jillian Dodd

Stretched Quotes #142202
#40. Good morning, sweetheart."
"I like that," I say quietly, smiling even though he can't see it. "I like it when you call me sweetheart."
He laughs then, his shoulders shaking as he does. He rolls onto his back, arms stretched out at his sides.
God, he looks so good without his clothes on.

Tahereh Mafi

Stretched Quotes #143446
#41. If you stretched the average person's intestines out from end to end, it would make them scream a lot.

Demetri Martin

Stretched Quotes #144638
#42. I love you
My life stretched over a bridge
I need you
My life stretched over you

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Stretched Quotes #146862
#43. The sloped desert plain that lay between us and the city was like a palm stretched out for a fortuneteller to read, with its mounds and hillocks, its life lines and heart lines of dry stream beds.

Barbara Kingsolver

Stretched Quotes #149269
#44. I watched as she stretched over the board to flick off a fallen leaf. Underneath her thin cotton shell, I saw how fragile the bones in her back were, far too sliver-prone, far too light to support a pair of wings.

Connie May Fowler

Stretched Quotes #152861
#45. If a summer were a girl, she'd always be lying stretched out in the grass in a long white dress, her arms over her head, her eyes half closed.

Elizabeth Berg

Stretched Quotes #154353
#46. I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and on like deserts, dry and desolate, with an unpredictable, shifting sea of dunes.

Marisha Pessl

Stretched Quotes #154492
#47. I want to be bruised by God.
I want to be strung up in a strong light and singled out.
I want to be stretched, like music wrung from a dropped seed.
I want to be entered and picked clean.

Charles Wright

Stretched Quotes #154864
#48. We were heading into the clumsy territory of my mother's funeral, stretched-out silences, wrong smiles, the place where words didn't work.

Donna Tartt

Stretched Quotes #155171
#49. Sometimes due to God's mercy, the time in God's plan can be stretched or extended

Sunday Adelaja

Stretched Quotes #157043
#50. The silence stretched between them like an ocean of difference keeping them apart.

Caroline Gebbie

Stretched Quotes #157798
#51. Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.

Stephen King

Stretched Quotes #158316
#52. In a corner of the churchyard grew a plantation of white violets, enormously plump and prosperous-looking ... I saw the dead stretched out under me in the earth, feeding these flowers with a thin milk drawn from their bones.

Rosamond Lehmann

Stretched Quotes #158499
#53. When the towers fell ..." They cast such a shadow, and it stretched out over our lives. We grew up in that shadow. "And it made everything seem so trivial.

Stefan Mohamed

Stretched Quotes #158857
#54. My painful memories sift through me like sand through stretched fingers. Only small pieces cling and stay around for me to keep, the rest just disappear. I know not where and I don't

Willow Madison

Stretched Quotes #159762
#55. I lay there, stretched out, looking at the one star visible through the tiny window of the room. Only connect. How can you do that when the connections are broken?

Jeanette Winterson

Stretched Quotes #163522
#56. It's like being on a tightrope stretched tightly between two skyscrapers - the past and the future.

Donna Cooner

Stretched Quotes #169232
#57. Hugh stretched out one hand and stroked the fur. It felt cold and rich, it crackled with silky static electricity. Stroking it was like stroking a clear autumn night.

Stephen King

Stretched Quotes #170245
#58. The defining moment when we finally admit, "I can't do this alone. Its too much for me. Take it."
That's the moment our heart cracks open, our will pours out and Christ stands ready with his arms stretched wide and his smile even wider.
That's the moment a miracle is born.

Toni Sorenson

Stretched Quotes #175392
#59. Does it involve breaking and entering?" A little smile stretched Raphael's lips. "I see His Majesty made a move. Has he asked you to make him dinner yet?" I growled. "This isn't about me and Curran.

Ilona Andrews

Stretched Quotes #175422
#60. 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

Stretched Quotes #180305
#61. You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

Norman Vincent Peale

Stretched Quotes #185156
#62. Perhaps I expected to look in and find a giant canary, stretched out on a carpet of dust, songless, capable of only heart murmurs for talk.

Ray Bradbury

Stretched Quotes #187534
#63. The queue for happiness was not well ordered, he thought; it stretched out and wound round corners, and sometimes, it seemed, the end was so hard to see.

Alexander McCall Smith

Stretched Quotes #195175
#64. I looked into the vast dome of blue emptiness that stretched out above me in all directions and the illusion was still there, the size and speed, and what information they were sending to mother earth.

Nelson Mandela

Stretched Quotes #196237
#65. He was stretched out like he was her own personal playground and she wanted to ride on his equipment for a bit longer.

Amy Andrews

Stretched Quotes #199747
#66. Excellent anthology ... a celebration of our goodness and our potential for growth. The sense of celebration is stretched by the beautiful photographs ...

Joseph C Zinker

Stretched Quotes #203666
#67. I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

Stretched Quotes #204136
#68. The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.

John Adams

Stretched Quotes #205599
#69. I am an actor, living generally on air, but I have always elastic hopes for the future; they may be stretched indefinitely, such hopes, without bursting

Vladimir Nabokov

Stretched Quotes #210553
#70. These ideas are, perhaps, too far stretched; but still it must be acknowledged, that, by representing the Deity as so intelligible and comprehensible, and so similar to a human mind, we are guilty of the grossest and most narrow partiality, and make ourselves the model of the whole universe.

David Hume

Stretched Quotes #213908
#71. Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Miguel De Cervantes

Stretched Quotes #216380
#72. Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.

Carson McCullers

Stretched Quotes #220076
#73. Finally, the horizon stretched out infinitely before me and I felt utterly content looking at stars from afar and trying to make out all the variable, temporary, extinguished or faded stars. I was nothing in this infinity, but I could finally breathe.

Patrick Modiano

Stretched Quotes #230053
#74. Learn to be friendly and learn to welcome all people, but note however in doing so that it is not every hand that is stretched towards you that deserves your handshake!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Stretched Quotes #237768
#75. When the music comes, you try to see it shining between your eyes. Like threads stretched taut and the notes as colored beads threaded on. When you get very good, it's as if you can see inside the music, through it. You bring the music alive, bring it into being. As if you're the one composing.

Anna Smaill

Stretched Quotes #238364
#76. From a swift canter the powerful legs of Melynlas stretched to a gallop. The stallion's muscles heaved beneath him and Taran, sword raised, plunged into the sea of men. His head spun and he gasped as if drowning. He realized he was terrified.

Lloyd Alexander

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#77. Julie stretched her neck and arched her back to get the kinks out.

Kelsey MacBride

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#78. I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as well.

Matt Bomer

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#79. I have a question to ask you." Beth stretched one arm across the back of the seat, hoping she looked provocative. "And what is that, husband?" Ian leaned down, his body hemming her in. His large fists rested on the seat back behind her. "Do I love you?

Jennifer Ashley

Stretched Quotes #250941
#80. It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well.

Sarah Dessen

Stretched Quotes #251986
#81. Stretched and skewed
Tap of the 8-ball and the cue
Scratches fall through
They are the scars of you

Criss Jami

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#82. Couldn't you see me and you stretched out in a bikini on the beach in Tahiti?
See, me, I'm very selective even though I could be greedy;
My main objective is to write our names together in graffiti.

Pharoahe Monch

Stretched Quotes #265426
#83. Outside, the guys took care of loading the groceries into the back of Shane's pickup. Emilie watched as four very attractive men stretched over the lowered tailgate to place the bags in the truck bed. A girl could get used to this.

Laura Kaye

Stretched Quotes #268545
#84. A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Stretched Quotes #271765
#85. This dirty little world full of confusion, and the blue rag, stretched overhead for a sky, is so low we could touch it with our hand.

Olive Schreiner

Stretched Quotes #276467
#86. She stretched her hands towards the sky. To grab all the stars, to hold the moon, to take away everything that the sky had. So that the sky could finally understand, how it feels to lose everything that makes it beautiful.

Akshay Vasu

Stretched Quotes #279742
#87. The expanse of space stretched out before them, causing Andi's eyelids to droop against her will. Before she knew it, darkness had claimed her.

Sasha Alsberg

Stretched Quotes #285431
#88. Cosimo stretched out his arms. 'I came up here before you, my lords, and here I will stay afterwards too!'
-'You want to withdraw!' cried El Conde.
-'No, to resist,' replied the Baron.

Italo Calvino

Stretched Quotes #289739
#89. Folks think a lifetime is a thing stretched out over years. It ain't. It can happen quick as a match in a dark room.

Esi Edugyan

Stretched Quotes #292550
#90. I yawned and stretched luxuriously in the morning. I make noises when I stretch because it feels ten times better than stretching silently.

Kevin Hearne

Stretched Quotes #293524
#91. These families need you." I said it quietly, and the silence stretched some more. I tried to steady my breathing. He paused again, then gave a deep sigh and said, "All right. I'll do it. I'll do what I can.

Elizabeth Warren

Stretched Quotes #293582
#92. What did immortality do to one who was once mortal? It stretched him thin.

S. Jae-Jones

Stretched Quotes #295689
#93. Happiness, wealth, true love. Just like everybody else."
"That's all?"
"What else is there that matters?"
He shrugged a shoulder. "Destruction, vengeance, power, world domination."
Her smile stretched but it didn't reach her eyes. "Those are fun too.

Michelle Rowen

Stretched Quotes #297222
#94. Her spirit rose with the horns and she was seized suddenly with a fierce love of all this country. She felt her mind a great wing stretched out protectively over the land.

Donna Gillespie

Stretched Quotes #301757
#95. A cruel queen does not mean an unsuccessful one. Under her guidance, Kenettra changed from a glittering gem into a clouded stone, and her empire became one to rule all others, a darkness that stretched from sun, to sea, to sky.
- The Empire of the Wolf, translation by Tarsa Mehani

Marie Lu

Stretched Quotes #303563
#96. With Torin stretched over her, his weight pinning her down, his heat and scent surrounding her, she was utterly consumed with pleasure. It saturated her bones, submerged her mind, tickled her every cell. She was alive with decadent sensation.

Gena Showalter

Stretched Quotes #307057
#97. Stretched by an idea,
we can aspire to new heights,
new ways of thinking.

J. Benson

Stretched Quotes #308821
#98. I really think of my motives, my melodies, my harmonies, as being these things that are very much alive. They have these little lives of their own that are stretched and pulled, and I do conceive of my music in a very narrative way.

Missy Mazzoli

Stretched Quotes #332837
#99. The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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#100. Alan Rickman had to drop into a blue screen stretched over a bag. It might have been 30 feet, which is plenty scary. You'd break your back, especially if you were untrained, but this is the thing about it: What you see on his face when he lets go is real fear. It's one of the greatest shots ever.

Brian Abrams

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