Stretching Quotations

Stretching was a major part of my preparation.

Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.

Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division.

I think knowing where you can generally fit is important, but the fun thing about being an actor is sometimes stretching beyond that stereotype and stretching beyond the box that people put you in.

Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more; and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly along.

Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is stretching for effect to avoid the actual life before his eyes.

When I go to the gym, stretching is very important. For polo, you don't need too much strength so you don't want to build yourself up too much. It's all about flexibility.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

I work out religiously. It's great for my back. It's great for my core. I've been exposed to lots of exercise regimens and movement classes as an actor, so I understand the importance of stretching and staying limber, but Pilates is what's really spoken to me. It works everything out.

We see a new Ethiopia, a new Africa, stretching her hands of influence throughout the world, teaching man the way of life and peace, The Way to God.

Elephants love to play around. They are very intelligent animals. They have a strong bond, at times stretching to several decades, with their mahouts.

A physical therapist does some unbelievable stretching with me.

The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.

Tight hamstrings are fierce. And I'm guilty of not allocating the time that I should to stretch. I'll put the time in for the runs, but then I go, 'I have to go here. I've got to go there.' Usually, stretching is what gets cut out of the program, but it's so critical.

Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.

Nobody criticised me when we qualified for the World Cup when I decided that the best shape for us going forward was three men at the back and stretching the pitch width-wise, which gives you options.

We put too much on contemporary dancers. A lot of them cannot change styles; a lot of them can't do anything else other than run around the stage reaching and stretching in anguish to somebody off camera that I never understand who it is. But it's the teenage angst they have to live with.

'Robopocalypse' joins a proud tradition of techno-apocalyptic tales, stretching from high-flying Icarus, to Frankenstein's monster, and to many a giant radioactive creature who has crashed the streets of Tokyo. And then, of course, there's the Terminator.

The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.

This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.

To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism.

In the 1960s, and stretching back to the 1930s, it was felt by many economists that easy money is a reliable way to increase employment.

I do some weights and I do a lot of stretching.

I don't begrudge a coach for trying to get all that he or she can. I don't resent a school feeling it needs to pay to keep top talent. I'm just afraid to think where all of this will end up because the overall impact seems to be stretching far beyond the scoreboard.

I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should.

I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.

I never try to pander to an audience, and I'm really not concerned with my image. I'm far more interested in stretching my abilities as an actor.

St. Benedict said to take care of your mind, body and soul. I swim for an hour every morning, do 15 minutes of Tibetan stretching and breathing exercises, and play soccer with friends four or more nights a week.

If I was a parent or a kid, I would need a cell phone, and those things are invaluable, but my kids are out of the house now, and I am thrilled when I wake up to not have a cell phone, and feel like today is stretching out in front of me for 1,000 hours, as it seems.

The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.

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

What's a space elevator? Simply described, it's a thin ribbon, about 3 feet wide and 60 thousand miles long, stretching upwards from the surface of the Earth. The lower end is bolted to a heavy anchor (think of an oil drilling platform), and the top is capped with a counterweight.

We started stretching together later in the game, trying to figure out who we might have to face.

We're getting down to a few numbers where we can work it a little easier and not try to get everyone in. We want to start stretching out our players and take a good look at some of these guys that are battling each other and battling for positions on this team.

We're really concentrating on the deep ball, ... The emphasis is on stretching the field. I'm also working on recognizing defenses quicker and cutting down on turnovers.

When everyone is really busy and feeling stressed out, often the time with your partner is one of the first things to get bumped. Stretching with your loved one turns the tables on the rat race, allowing you both to be in the moment and renewing your connection.

The region most vulnerable right now is the Midwest, stretching from Texas up to the Great Lakes.

Los Angeles County is one of the most park-poor urban areas in the nation, and the San Gabriel Valley - stretching from Pasadena to Pomona - is especially starved for open space.

She's stretching it out. She does whatever she has to do.

Ms. Garcia is stretching the truth for her own personal gain,

One idea that I toyed around with is that dark energy is a complicated network of rubber sheets. If you stretch them, you have to provide force and because of it, the sheet gains energy. The universe expansion is much like stretching this network of sheets, which increases energy.

No one has tasted them. They resemble the La-Mian noodle, a traditional Chinese noodle that is made by repeatedly pulling and stretching the dough by hand.

NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.

I was stretching the law to suit the design I came up with,

I was stretching on the sidelines when Beckham came to take a corner and by chance I started coughing as he struck the corner,

I got involved in lots of different areas round about 2007, 2008. Just working with lots of different people and stretching myself in different ways. I was working on art projects and working with other writers, just doing bits and pieces, trying to keep busy.

Casper Wyo., population 18,000 when I was born, was large enough to hold the surprises of civilization, but small enough that the prairie was close by - for some in our town, right out the front door - stretching on forever, under the great curving sky.

China is surely stretching its legs in terms of foreign direct investment.

I feel good. It's OK. I was running good enough to make the bases. I felt it a little bit yesterday, but I'm fine. Once I start stretching and running again, I don't feel it.

From what we've seen in the last 30 days, lead times are stretching out a week, but no more than two weeks for compliant parts. It's slight, though, not like four or eight weeks.

For me to just go back in that environment where it's being encouraged was great, ... Just to keep working on your game, keep stretching your game and keep learning.

If the Fed continues to raise rates, adjustable-rate mortgages will continue to get pinched. That's going to take people who are stretching to buy homes off the table.

He taught us Drawling, Stretching and Fainting in Coils.

He gave us the lakes for our Northern boundary, and the rivers stretching to the seas upon whose waters floats our commerce to the nations of the world; while man has done all that can be done by science to bind us together.

He's a guy we'd like to get our hands back on so we can start getting him busy with some of the things we have in mind -- namely, stretching him out.

He's a true leader for us. Whether it's stretching or the weight room, he's just a true leader for us. And nobody works harder than him.

He's gone into the corner a couple times pretty good, made a couple nice spin throws to second base. I can see his arm has already gotten better. He's stretching it out a little bit. He's doing OK.

I think it's about an even-money proposition that UPM will come back with another offer. The concern in the market is that either side is going to end up stretching it to $80 per share, and then it becomes a little more difficult to justify.

It could get a little antsy in the next few weeks and stretching into mid January.

It is a kind of a way to play games with monthly payments. Stretching out the mortgage maturity is simply a way to lower month payments and stimulate sales.

I was just looking for something up early in the count and I got a little slider up in the zone. I was thinking of trying to drive it to the outfield and it got a tad in on me, but I got the job done. I was stretching six different times during the game, but you never know when an opportunity like that is going to come.

I saw Snowy go down and I knew something was wrong. I just jumped the boards, started stretching and looked up at the clock. There were 8 or 9 seconds left, so I said, 'Let's get through that and then we'll go.

Our board elected to pursue this attractive offer now rather than face the risks and uncertainties of stretching out the process via an auction, which would have taken several weeks.

Respect for intellectual excellence, the restoration of vigor and discipline to our ideas of study, curricula which aim at strengthening intellectual fiber and stretching the power of young minds, personal commitment and responsibility - these are th

Our local agencies have done a good job of stretching dollars. Obviously, this is going to help.

That area could anchor a very important development corridor stretching from Indianapolis Boulevard to Five Points.

Maryland leaders took a historic step today in acknowledging the crisis of global warming and deciding to do something about it. While leaders in Washington say carbon reductions are impossible, the capital itself now borders a region stretching from Maryland to Maine where reductions are in fact happening.

I think the stretching before training and the match, has helped me. As well as being sensible with my eating and drinking.

Miguel played a few days in a row. Josh is going to play a few days in a row. We'll eventually work up to three days in a row. It's hard because we have two catchers that need to play. We'll start stretching them out the last couple of weeks.

With the game evolving into so many ball screens and stretching defenses, you're so much harder to guard when you have a four man (power forward) that can be a threat from the perimeter as well as inside.

We haven't had that prior to this season. The seniors help run practice, help mentor younger players and they know the offense, defense, stretching drills and what jokes I'm going to tell. Coming into this year, we won't have to work so much with the fundamentals and we can elevate our level of play and expand ourselves on both sides.

You have probably been hearing about how well they've done as far as integration goes, how steady and slow they've gone. The ... earnings here are really core earnings, not about ... stretching by security gains or one-time items. Their reserves are strong, the future looks strong for them.

We discovered the extent of Khan's hidden network. We tagged the proliferators. We detected the network stretching from Pakistan to Europe to the Middle East to Asia offering its wares to countries like North Korea and Iran.

We're coming back to some of our favorite cities to make sure the fans get a chance to see how this tour has evolved over the course of the last 50 shows. Bruce just keeps stretching the boundaries of his performance night after night, and the result has been some of the very best concerts of his entire career.

We believe Bell-Cable competition will unfold like the Vietnam War, with many battles stretching over a long period of time. It will be a war of attrition, where the player with the greatest cash flow to fund its arsenal wins.

I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.

When a writer is already stretching the bounds of reality by writing within a science fiction or fantasy setting, that writer must realize that excessive coincidence makes the fictional reality the writer is creating less 'real.'

We think this is good for all of our journalism, ... As AP reporters and photographers get serious about working in the online world, we find them stretching and growing in ways they themselves would never have imagined, and this is benefiting newspapers as well.

We didn't handle their pressure on the defensive end like I thought we would after working on it all week. They did a good job of stretching us out on the offensive end, too, to get our big guys on the perimeter.

Fifteen percent upside from here, taking the rolling P/E ratio into the mid-teens -- that would not be stretching it at all. I do not think it is really going to peter out here.

Extremely mild weather will continue this entire week, stretching the run of mild weeks assuredly to eight. Though cooler, the following week may yet be mild enough to leave a ninth week in the run of mild weeks that have spanned the core of this heating season.

While we can all access articles and information in so many places now - across blogs, in newspapers, on video - there is something very powerful about putting it all together into an edited format in a single issue that has a narrative stretching across the themes.

We gave him a pretty easy night. When I look down and he's stretching halfway through the game because he's only seen 11 shots, you know, we made it pretty easy on him. You could have put basically anybody in net and we never really had anything until the third period.

What we are seeing is that consumers' cautious spending is now stretching to the low-priced discount stores as well as to the other stores. ...Today, saving money is chic. Bargain hunting is fashionable.

Very probably this was an idealistic youth who took things too far. I think the government has been over-enthusiastic about stretching a little evidence as far as they can.

You have to remember these people were stretching the rubber band about as far it would go for five years.

We did a good job of stretching their offense in the second half.

We didn't know how to train correctly, that's the truth. Today, we do know how. We do a lot of strengthening, a lot of stretching and it helps, even at my age.

At the beginning of practice, the coaches would be off to the side talking about what we needed to work on, and Albert would be leading the stretching exercises. He is a natural-born leader.

The San Gabriel Valley, stretching from Pasadena to Pomona, is especially starved for open space. The valley has a rich array of ethnically diverse communities, but it also has some of the highest rates of childhood obesity and diabetes in the state.

The situations have different issues. Here we're seeing a bending and stretching of the rules. Over there the rules are totally crushed. ...We have an accounting standards board and a fairly strict set of standards. Yes, we're seeing some problems. But by comparison they are nothing like the problems in Japan.

Protecting muscles at all times is a good thing. And understanding how stretching increases resistance to injury will really help to do this.

People come to yoga to find themselves. Stretching releases tension, but there?s also a meditative, spiritual aspect. ..You are going to get physical benefits, and that?s fine. But if you have the right teacher, you?re going to get all the other stuff, too.

Stretching for 10 minutes or so after your runs make next days effort feel easier too.

And then we'll go from there and start stretching him out.

A new medium always has a period when it is struggling inside the confining box of an earlier medium. Creators have to unlearn what they knew before they can see the fresh, uncharted vistas stretching before them.

A lot of times as coaches we do a best-case scenario and a worst-case scenario and we listed as coaches the best we could do is get 12 and we thought 13 was stretching it. The kids did outstanding.

It was important that we won with the district being seeded this year. Other than that, we had good pitching and hit the ball hard a couple of times. We did a good job of running the bases and stretching things out when we had the chance.

It's a lot like exercise. If you go to the gym and work out, you're strengthening you're strengthening and stretching your muscles. It gives you a healthier body overall. It's an area of the body that needs a lot of attention. It literally undoes what years of wear and tear have done to your feet." ()

The notion that we would spend nearly four years trying to get a deal without success and then do one within four days is stretching it.