Stretching Quotes · Page 4

I do a variety of weight-lifting, elliptical glider, stretching exercises, push-ups.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Stretching before and after every workout keeps muscles supple and helps elongate the lines of a ballerina's limbs.

— Mary Helen Bowers

I’d really love to be a versatile, chameleon-like actress, stretching myself a bit.

— Gabriella Wilde

Arise from sleep, old cat, And with great yawns and stretchings... Amble out for love

— Anonymous

By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

— Michael J. Gelb

By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.

— Jean Genet

Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible.

— Bob Harper

I've got a stretching program that's specific to my body, to keep my lower back mobile and my shoulders strong.

— Garrett McNamara

I try to hurt myself, to sprain something, writing every novel and story, because I'm stretching for something new and difficult that…

— Catherynne M. Valente

What geography can give all Middle Westerners, along with the fresh water and topsoil, if they let it, is awe for an…

— Kurt Vonnegut

You can totally have a great little yoga routine in 20 minutes: 10 sun salutations and five or six standing poses and…

— Mandy Ingber

I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms…

— Larry Hagman

Generally speaking, I love a workout that includes stretching and toning exercises for legs and core on the mat paired with ballet-inspired…

— Mary Helen Bowers

An immense body, encircling my delirium, a body made of wind and sunlight, crouching and stretching, encompassed the existence of the slightest…

— Joë Bousquet

It feels like some part of me that was curled down and waiting in the dark has risen, and now stands stretching…

— Elizabeth Berg

“The keys to health and weight-loss: stress reduction, sleep, deep breathing, clean water, complete nutrition, sunshine, walking, stretching, meditation, love, community, laughter,…

— Bryant McGill

The wind picks up. It sends leaves scurrying for cover until a softer breeze blows through, settling them down again as if…

— Libba Bray

I'm Magnus Bane." he went on in a soothing tone, stretching out his ringed hands. Blue sparks had begun to dance between…

— Cassandra Clare

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I'm coming from a place that's more experimental and indulgent already, so for the last 10 years, it's been more like, "How…

— Andrew Bird

There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I don't begrudge a coach for trying to get all that he or she can. I don't resent a school feeling it…

— LZ Granderson

I grew up playing football and hunting; and went to military school and then into the Marine Corps. Kindness is not a…

— Robert Kiyosaki

So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then…

— Herman Melville

Walking the streets of Tokyo with Hawking in his wheelchair ... I felt as if I were taking a walk through Galilee…

— Freeman Dyson

Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that…

— Aldous Huxley

At some point in every racer's life he has to make his peace with cheating. I do not approve of cheating ...…

— Carroll Smith

This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle…

— Michel Houellebecq

Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them.…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

“I like the term “stretch” for describing what deliberate practice feels like, as it matches my own experience with the activity. When…

— Cal Newport

The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us…

— Anonymous

I was driving in Manhattan. There's traffic, nobody's moving... The guy behind me is honking just at me. He kept yelling at…

— Louis C. K

It's so important to read a book before bed and do some weird stretching.

— Lady Amelia Windsor

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

— Jeremy Bentham

It's easier to get divorced than to engage in the soul-stretching personal growth that is inevitable in marriage

— Laura M. Brotherson

My fitness routine includes things that are not stressful on my body - swimming, yoga, stretching, and rebounding.

— Laura Prepon

I start with a pretty yoga-based warm-up. I do jumping jacks and burpees, and I do a lot of dynamic stretching.

— Ethan Slater

Stretching exercises promote flexibility, so you move fluidly.

— Denise Austin

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.

— Mark Rothko

When you're stretching yourself, as a role like 'Blue Jasmine' did for me, you risk falling flat on your face.

— Cate Blanchett