Top 379 Stretched Quotes & Sayings

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.

The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.

I'm about to reach my dreams and I aint even got my arms stretched.

For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. This I have known ever since I stretched out my fingers to the abomination within that great gilded frame; stretched out my fingers and touched a cold and unyielding surface of polished glass.

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.

I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Ill-fitted T-shirts stretched over a gut are my pet hate. And if the colour's faded - ugh.

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.

And Satan smiled, stretched out his hand, and said, "O War, of all the scourges of humanity, I crown you chief.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

Surveillance legislation passed in good faith has been stretched well beyond its original purpose.

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

Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?

Music is liquid. It's meant to be messed with and played with and stretched and pulled and pushed, I think.

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.

What should be shrunken must first be stretched.

People think of time as a continuum composed of points which is stretched out at a line, and even if you add a direction to it and say one direction on the line is past and the other direction is future, or better, one direction is "earlier than" and the other direction is "later than", you're still thinking of it as like a geometrical line which is stretched out rather than as a dynamic process of becoming.

I'm still a kid. I stretched it out.

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity-where energies flow smoothly in one direction-there will be much doing but no music.

Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.

You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly.

And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.

When the whistle blew and the call stretched thin across the night, one had to believe that any journey could be sweet to the soul.

Out stretched hands and one night stands, still I can't find love.

My girlfriend still doesn't know why her sweaters are always stretched out.

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

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

I have a bony face - I feel like my skin's been stretched over my skull.

history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

I know [people] think I'm taller because it's so close and I look stretched out, but I'm just 4-8.

Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.

Time was a funny and fickle thing. Sometimes there was never enough of it, and other times it stretched out endlessly.

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!

Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror.

Some of the best trades come when everyone gets very panicky. The crowd can often act very stupidly in the markets. You can picture price fluctuations around an equilibrium level as a rubber band being stretched -- if it gets pulled too far, eventually it will snap back. As a short-term trader, I try to wait until the rubber band is stretched to its extreme point.

To you who think you are lost or without hope, or who think you have done too much that was too wrong for too long, to every one of you who worry that you are stranded somewhere on the wintry plains of life and have wrecked your handcart in the process, we call out "Jehovah's unrelenting refrain, "My hand is stretched out still" (Isaiah 5:25: 9:17,21). "...His mercy endureth forever, and His hand is stretched out still. His is the pure love of Christ, the charity that never faileth, that compassion which endures even when all other strength disappears".

For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.

I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.

and the smile I'd been waiting for stretched across his face like the sun breaking free of the clouds.

When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.

The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin.

To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive.

Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.

Prudence is sometimes stretched too far, until it blocks the road of progress.

Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you...

Classical ballet is very extreme. You're doing it six days a week, and it's a kind of obsession of perfecting a move. So every muscle in your body has been stretched and tightened, stretched and tightened.

You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

Honestly, I think I`ve stretched a talent which is so thin it`s almost transparent over a quite unbelievable term of years.

This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart.

I pulled the burden from off my back and tossed it into the wind. And stretched my arms toward the sky and let my life begin.