Stretchers R Quotes

#1. MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. Man is indisputably endowed with reason; the problem is only how he uses his reason in the company of others.

Robert Musil

#3. Although it takes a long warm-up for an eight to swing, on an erg such subtleties don't matter. For me the sound alone raised my pulse to 120. Tying my feet into the stretchers increased it to 180. My maximum pulse was 200. I didn't need a warmup. I needed a sedative.

Stefan Kieszling

#4. He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I can't buy my own pictures,' he murmured aloud. 'Then I'd be completely self-sufficient.'

Irving Stone

#5. All told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.
Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave,

Mark Twain

#6. I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.

Mattie Stepanek

#7. An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator.

Jane Asher

#8. But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.

Henry L. Stimson

#9. When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

Thomas Paine

#10. There behind me on the stretchers my comrades are now lying and still they call. It is peace, yet they must die. But I, I am trembling with joy and am not ashamed. - And that is odd. Because none can ever wholly feel what another suffers - is that the reason why wars perpetually recur? 2

Erich Maria Remarque

#11. I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having a very strong presence of the wilderness around me. That never felt like emptiness. It always felt like presence.

Marilynne Robinson

#12. She'd like to be indispensable; that's what every woman wants ...

Francoise Sagan

#13. I think I'm going to be around awhile.

Dan Marino

#14. The width of neck and shoulder suggested a rugby player, the broken nose confirmed it. Which shows just how wrong you can be as he never played the game in his life.

Spike Milligan

#15. English bond is a style in which one row is made up entirely of stretchers (the long side of bricks) and the next is made only of headers (the end side).

Bill Bryson

#16. The critical voice is not your own.

Amelia Kinkade

#17. A lot of people get a misconception
And start drifting in the wrong direction
Miss Goody Two Shoes see you later
I ain't got time and you ain't nuthin but a playa hater.

Rappin' 4-Tay

#18. Why can't we accept the human form as it is? screams no one. I don't know why, but we never have. That's why people wore corsets and neck stretchers and powdered wigs.

Tina Fey