Top 288 Extending Quotes & Sayings

What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art.

You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.

Fearlessness is extending ourselves beyond our limited view.

Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like?

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

Extending our lives, extending our creativity, opening up the mysteries of the brain. All those things that are really exciting - that's kind of the basis of 'Neon Future,' and that's why I interviewed Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey de Grey.

Extending the language of film sometimes starts with just trying to show one true thing.

I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent.

Each work has its own space, which should neither be conceived as a sort of cage nor regarded as extending to infinity.

Extending the GI bill benefits to ensure veterans receive the support they need for good-paying jobs is critical.

Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.

Spreading my love and extending my hand is what life's all about.

Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.

Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and social virtue.

The process of radiation may be, and is, continuous - at any rate within limits extending to far smaller quantities than the quantum.

I was bankrolling the games, vetting the players, extending the credit. My life was really stressful.

Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.

I think one reason I'm drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means of intensifying feeling.

The logistic requirements for a large, elaborate mission to Mars are no greater that those for a minor military operation extending over a limited theatre of war.

Ending discrimination and extending equality should always be a national priority.

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

We are extending basic training. It'll be the longest and toughest in the world.

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

I'm good at extending plays and finding throwing lanes.

Health care is, at its core, about improving the odds of life in its struggle against death. Of extending that game which we will all lose, each and every one of us unto eternity, extending it another year or month or second.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.

I'm all for players extending their careers, and I'm all for trying to be as healthy as possible for the playoff run.

If you get very fine, accurate, and inexpensive control over your genome, you can fundamentally change the kind of organism you are. You are extending human capacity.

Our history is based on extending the brand to categories within the guardrails of Starbucks.

The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness.

It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.

... the fouling of the nest which has been typical of man's activity in the past on a local scale now seems to be extending to the whole world society.

Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.

Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots.

The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.

I think that the churches do a better job in many respects than the government does in various kinds of things. Extending aid, the helpfulness, and so on, yes.

Extending federal unemployment insurance is vital for millions of Americans laid off through no fault of their own, and it serves as an important economic stimulus.

McDonald's offers a king's ransom to any hip-hop artist who is able to put Big Mac into a song. MTV - and more to the point, Viacom - is succeeding in extending a teenage life to twenty-nine or even thirty-one years old. It is about extending this market and removing any intelligent substance in the music.

Think light! Try to impart a feeling of lightness to the body. Think light. This can be achieved by mentally extending yourself outwards from the centre of the body, i.e., think tall. Think not just of raising your arms but of extending them outwards and when you are holding them still, think again of reaching still further away from your body. Do not think of yourself as a small compressed suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding - no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.

Build a bridge by extending your hand.

Of course I can imagine extending my contact at Dortmund. I have always said how at home I feel here.

I never thought about extending the promotions. Maybe I've matured but I feel that a shorter and more powerful promotion is better.

If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road.

You can't grow unless your banking system is expanding and you are extending credit.

I strongly support extending current student loan interest rates and increasing the college tuition tax credit for students and their families.

I can think of no greater God-given responsibility we have than that of extending a helping hand to our fellow man.

The government's approach in extending support to athletes for international competitions has undergone a transformational change.

We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers.

Any experience, however, trivial in its first appearance, is capable of assuming an indefinite richness of significance by extending its range of perceived connections.

Extending your hand is extending yourself.

I haven't moved to Pakistan, but I love it here and I always keep extending my trips.

The only time I've ever taken out a loan is for the building work I had done at our house and I did that by extending the mortgage.

If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.

I have not come up with anything original. It needs a better brain than mine! I have done what I can do in taking Dawkins' idea and extending it.