Quotes About Elastic

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

Time was a peculiarly elastic measurement. It was an empty space, given meaning only by what it contained, and afterwards distorted in memory.

In most matters regarding apparel, I am a big fan of natural fibers - wool, cotton, and so on. Not when it comes to socks. An elastic fiber of some type is necessary.

The term 'psychological thriller' is an elastic one these days, tagged liberally on to any story of suspense that explores motivations while keeping blood and chainsaws to a minimum.

Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.

Don't get smart or sarcastic He snaps back just like elastic Spare us the theatrics and the verbal gymnastics We break wise guys just like matchsticks

But she was used to that by now, used to this kind of waiting, that was slack as worn elastic yet had the tautness of wire.

Time was a funny and fickle thing. Sometimes there was never enough of it, and other times it stretched out endlessly.

Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.

I've remembered that most of life is about small, essential connections, so unobtrusive, so elastic, that you scarcely realize they're actually holding you together. The big ones-the great, grand emotional bonds-those are the ones that break, the ones that fail you, the ones that give way and send you careening toward the foot of the bleak and jagged canyon. It's the tough, gnarled, unadorned ties that really do bind, that never let you fall all the way down into darkness.

I think noir is an immensely powerful - and elastic - lens through which to look at narrative and character. It seems to access something dark and true in us that other modes of fiction are often a bit prissy about touching. But the key to making it work as time and culture moves on is to use the elasticity, not just the power.

See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Semper Gumby, he thinks. Always flexible.

He doesn't speak for a moment, as if the silence is the elastic that will bring his next words forward.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.

If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal—that is your success. All

natureIf the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal - that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. ~

yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.

see how elastic our swift prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.

see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.