Quotes About Stretch

If you could buckle your Bugs Bunny wristwatch to a ray of light, your watch would continue ticking but the hands wouldn't move. That's because at the speed of light there is no time. Time is relative to velocity. At high speeds, time is literally stretched. Since light is the ultimate in velocity, at light-speed time is stretched to its absolute and becomes static. Albert Einstein figured that one out.

A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.

so matter as we know it gets stretched and squeezed out of existence.

People in a growth mindset don't just seek challenge, they thrive on it. The bigger the challenge, the more they stretch. And nowhere can it be seen more clearly than in the world of sports. You can just watch people stretch and grow.

The mind of man works with strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented by the timepiece of the mind by one second.

but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.

In the context of general relativity, space almost is a substance. It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best way to think about space is to just kind of imagine a big piece of rubber that you can pull and twist and bend.

I know I have the ultimate eye of confidence to take a shot down the stretch if a coach needs me to do it.

Arsene Wenger is just an unbelievable manager. I think he's a tremendous person, and he is just as good as there is. You can't judge a manager on one game or on one stretch of games. You judge him over time.

Only World War II, which mobilized 10 million draftees, could by any stretch of the imagination be called a people's war.

I have a conviction that it's only when you are put at full stretch that you can realise your full potential.

Come out into the universe of light. Everything in the universe is yours. Stretch out your arms and embrace it with love. If you ever felt you wanted to do that, you have felt God.

Increase your capacity to receive what is destined to happen if you believe! If you can see the invisible, you can do the impossible. You may have to stretch yourself or enlarge your circle of associates. You may have to expose yourself beyond your comfort zone or speak when you are naturally introverted. Stretch yourself; it's worth it!

I'm going to bet on someone's wife hooking up with the guy next door,' I said. The villainous nuns would have made better TV-movie fodder, but they sounded like a pretty big stretch to me. 'Just playing the odds.

The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows.

And souls, it seemed, were powerful things in their own right, with a kind of inertia about them, not easily moved. Particularly when all of them had to be moved in a kind of unison, all agreeing as to the shape of what was being made despite seeing it from many different points of view. As if all things in the world were webbed together by bands that had to stretch or break in order for change to occur, and those bands were woven by the perceptions of souls.

In a voice both low and curious, he said, "You're not what I expected." "No," she whispered. "I suppose I'm not." Time seemed to slow and stretch. He observed her with intensity, as if she were a songbird he had trapped and would cage forever.

he none the less argued that 'an avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty' because it can accustom a nation 'to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws'.

if you can speak of a center in a city whose tongues of land stretch through hills and lick the sea. Seen

I never really knew the weight of sorrow before, how it stretches you out like an old, wet sweater.

Their closeness wouldn't break, but it would bend and stretch into a new shape.

Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularly so every stretch won't feel like your first.

The lightning bug is brilliant, But he hasn't any mind; He blunders through existence With his headlight on behind... But the measuring worm is different, When he starts after pelf, He stretches to the limit, And then he humps himself.

If you want to ruin the truth, stretch it.