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Quotes About Stretching

One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
~ M. Scott Peck
I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
~ Jackson Browne
unwinding all six foot five of him.
~ John Julius Norwich
Crashing into the trembling void Stretching my hand to you Losing myself to frigid regret Is this fragile love A way To say Good-bye
~ Maggie Stiefvater
fend off any possible competition, stretching to win Iowa's political caucuses, now only eight months
~ John Sandford
SOMETIMES A KIND OF GLORY lights up the mind of a man. It happens to nearly everyone. You can feel it growing or preparing like a fuse burning toward dynamite. It is a feeling in the stomach, a delight of the nerves, of the forearms. The skin tastes the air, and every deep-drawn breath is sweet. Its beginning has the pleasure of a great stretching yawn; it flashes in the brain and the whole world glows outside your eyes. A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the
~ John Steinbeck
My fitness routine includes things that are not stressful on my body - swimming, yoga, stretching, and rebounding.
~ Laura Prepon
control, and even cure muscle cramps.
~ Mark Hyman
It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.
~ Mark Rothko
Copacii par zane durdulii in camasi albe de noapte, care se intind somnoroase si casca la luna...
~ Mathias Malzieu
yoga   A form of exercise based around stretching limbs, breathing slowly, and feeling superior.
~ Matt Haig
The hospital, like a beast with a thousand hearts, was stretching and yawning, settling into the night.
~ Michael Palmer
If you are reading in order to become a better reader, you cannot read just any book or article. You will not improve as a reader if all you read are books that are well within your capacity. You must tackle books that are beyond you, or, as we have said, books that are over your head. Only books of that sort will make you stretch your mind. And unless you stretch, you will not learn.
~ Mortimer Adler
A memory of stretching like a dog, the push of feet on turf and flash of teeth flicked across her mind like a leaf on a gust of wind. She tried to catch it back, but it was gone.
~ Nicola Griffith
One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.
~ Padma Lakshmi
Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh.
~ Patricia Highsmith
She tried to keep her smile from stretching too wide. It was daylight, and their ships weren't passing. They were standing face to face—
~ Unknown
Nor the feathery curtains Stretching o'er the sun's bright couch...
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley