Stretch Quotes

606 quotes by 530 authors

When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged. — Martin Amis
So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to… — Margaret Atwood
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie. — Mark Twain
Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came… — Anna Quindlen
Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns. — Rainer Maria Rilke
You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you risked disapproval? Have you ever risked economic security? Have you ever risked… — Tom Robbins
..she took pictures of germs, viruses, and people reacting to germs and viruses. On weekends, for extra money, she photographed weddings, which really wasn't that… — David Sedaris
Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange… — H P Lovecraft
And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down… — Alice Munro
The fields stretch out in long unbroken rows. We walk aware of what is far and close. Here distance is familiar as a friend. The… — Theodore Roethke
To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well. — Gwendolyn Brooks
Warm are the still and lucky miles, White shores of longing stretch away, A light of recognition fills The whole great day, and bright The… — Wystan Hugh Auden
And she did not miss his presence so much as his voice on the phone. Even being lied to constantly, though hardly like love, was… — Ian Mcewan
She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a… — Gregory Maguire
Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough. — Jeffrey Eugenides
He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even… — Vladimir Nabokov
Tell me again what we're doing here," I said, running a continuous scan of our surroundings. Fang popped some Cracker Jack into his mouth. "We're… — James Patterson
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter -… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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