A Quote by Bill Copeland

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

Bill Copeland

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Bill Copeland
American - Poet
1946 - 2010

'Blueprint 3' is made up of songs, but it's also a commentary on the idea that in order for rap to survive, we have to stretch out the drama. We have to stretch out the audience. It can't be this narrow - we have to stretch out the point of view.

Jay-Z

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

I have a collection of 50-plus snapback hats.

James Harden

And though the years before I die Stretch out interminably, I Shall only count my life in truth As that brief hour of happy youth.

Ibn Hazm

The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty.

Alfred North Whitehead

To stretch the truth is to tell a lie.

Robert Breault

When I grew up in the Bronx, we always had everyone telling us, 'Watch out for the system, watch out for child welfare, watch out, they'll get you,' and I grew up with this feeling of, 'Society is over there and they're dangerous and not safe.'

Liz Murray

I can't help it if I stretch the truth, not if that's the way it happened.

Tim Finn

There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten. But those who never stretch out the hand will never feel it clasped in friendship.

Michael Heseltine

There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious.

Stephen Colbert

You have to want to dare being a model. You have to dare or you don't go that step further. You have to be willing to stretch - and to not only be willing to stretch, but to want to stretch.

Polly Allen Mellen

Human eyes are the sign language of the brain. If you watch them carefully, you can see the truth played out, raw and unguarded.

Tarryn Fisher

Why should I stretch? Does a cheetah stretch before it chases its prey?

Ken Griffey, Jr.

If I cannot speak or write about it, I struggle with the truth. When I speak out in an effort to process what I observe and attempt to stretch myself beyond my many inadequacies, people ask me am I not afraid of the government? I am scared of my inadequacies.

Ravish Kumar

Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.