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Quotes About Lengthening

The days were lengthening. A wet primrose light lay over Wells Road. The lamps were like jewels, pale but piercingly bright. The air... fresh and mild.
~ Dorothy Whipple
The long evening had made its way into the barrack through the windows, creating mysteries everywhere, erasing the seam between one thing and another, lengthening out the floors and either thinning the air or putting some refinement on my ear enabling me to hear for the first time the clicking of a cheap clock from the kitchen.
~ Flann O'Brien
No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
~ Seneca the Younger
The young might have been restless around any primal fire where an elder was saying, Know this. Certainly they would have been restless. Their bodies were consumed with the business of lengthening limbs, sprouting hair, fitting themselves for procreation.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Although 1870 proved the corollary of the theory and practice of terror, that it deepens antagonism, stimulates resistance, and ends by lengthening war, the Germans remained wedded to it.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
I have a boxing trainer at a gym, which is really fun. And I also try to complement it with flybarre, which is lengthening, strengthening, toning, just tightening everything up.
~ Elsa Hosk
Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.
~ Wes Anderson
Pilates is my favorite core strengthener. I do it three or four times a week. With all the strengthening and lengthening, it's like ballet. Plus, you get to do it lying down!
~ Emily VanCamp
I usually submit a novel at a certain number of words, and when I've finished working with my editor, the novel is longer than when I submitted it. I need my editor to help me open up the story.
~ David Bergen
escribiendo por completo cada palabra, incluso los números, para alargar lo más posible el proceso de escribir, en el que se sentía seguro. (pág 53)
~ Peter Handke
Shadows were distancing themselves from the trees, the statues, the people. Elongating.
~ Louise Penny