#stretching

Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer and the tortured, the forcer and the forced. This sense of inner-directed self-sufficiency was what she wanted most of all. It gave her deep solace. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#japanese #murakami #stretching #music

The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#began #better #better time #day #days

By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line. ↗

— John Byng

#enemy #engage #form #going #great

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. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#best #best part #energy #going #huge

I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#comfort #comfort zone #different #doing #fussy

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together. ↗

— Keanu Reeves

#basically #choreography #come #dance #four

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

— Jeremy Bentham

#flowers #forgets #hand #his #man

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

— Mike Ditka

#i do #lot #some #stretching #weights

If eating out, order your meal and ask the server to wrap up half of the portion to take home with your for the next day, keeping your portion size in check, and stretching your dollar into two meals. ↗

— Cat Cora

#check #day #dollar #eating #half

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. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#count #difference #dollar #earn #every