#stretch

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#brackets #each #either #enclosing #except

The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in the afternoon, eat a light supper - perhaps Welsh rarebit - and then arrive early to do some stretching exercises in the foyer before curtain-up. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#arrive #before #best #best way #bit

The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises. ↗

— Jason Statham

#coordination #exercises #extensive #fight #lot

When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things. ↗

— Kiefer Sutherland

#age #anything #anyway #around #awful

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. ↗

— John Brough

#boundary #commerce #done #floats #gave

For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time. ↗

— George Sutherland

#carved #epitaph #failed #forth #freedom

I get very nervous whenever I think about it. I've never done a serious play, and I have such awe of the woman - she's really my only idol. It's going to be a big stretch - certain people come out on stage and your face muscles automatically tense and you get ready to smile. ↗

— Judy Holliday

#automatically #awe #big #certain #come

Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie! ↗

— John Hughes

#break #christmas #coats #dark #dirty

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

— Mark Shields

#competing #dozens #important #important thing #interests

Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination. ↗

— Charlie Simpson

#band #busted #i #ideal #imagination