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I'm still a kid. I stretched it out.
You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.
I'm comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it's stretched. Ha ha.
I have a bony face - I feel like my skin's been stretched over my skull.
Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.
Ill-fitted T-shirts stretched over a gut are my pet hate. And if the colour's faded - ugh.
I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.
Surveillance legislation passed in good faith has been stretched well beyond its original purpose.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as well.
The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.
Music is liquid. It's meant to be messed with and played with and stretched and pulled and pushed, I think.
Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.
My yoga mat comes everywhere. Keeps me stretched out after sitting still on all those planes, trains and road journeys.
I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
When the whistle blew and the call stretched thin across the night, one had to believe that any journey could be sweet to the soul.
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
Especially as a director on 'West Wing,' I directed a lot of different things in a lot of different ways and really stretched my wings.
I stretched my whole career - it didn't save me when I blew my back, and of course, that's where the whole things of DDP Yoga comes from.
The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.
Rome is one enormous mausoleum. There, the Past lies visibly stretched upon his bier. There is no today or tomorrow in Rome; it is perpetual yesterday.
I think I've always enjoyed a challenge and I like being pushed and I like being stretched to the absolute limit. I think a lot of actors are like this.
The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin.
At its height, Rome's empire stretched right along the coast of north Africa and sub-Saharan Africans passed to and fro across its porous southern border.
Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
I've landed on my shoulders a lot of times, and separated them and stretched the capsule. I've torn my ACL in my right knee; that took me out for an entire season.
I'm tall with broad shoulders. And my waist is small. I'm into fashion, so I like the way clothes lay on me. I'm pretty much a normal person's size, just stretched out.
As big as the industry is now and as gargantuan and stretched out with as many buses and trucks as there are now, it is still a big old dysfunctional family in my mind.
I personally love working for finite series as it's important to convey that stories need not be stretched; they can get over in a year and still be loved by audiences.
After World War II, we awoke to find our wartime ally, Stalin, had emerged as a greater enemy than Germany or Japan. Stalin's empire stretched from the Elbe to the Pacific.
Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
We all understand the economics of the Super Bowl - 10 or 12 minutes of the ball in motion will be stretched into three and a half hours or more of money-making commercials.
I've always been a late bloomer. My body developed late. From ninth to 10th grade, I grew like 3 inches. Just kind of stretched out. I was like 6-1, grew to 6-4 in 10th grade.
There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
I have these large pieces of recycled brown paper stretched on my apartment wall and when I am not doing anything fashion-related, I'm drawing on it, playing with colour spectrums.
When I was making 'Strong Island,' it was very clear to me that my brother's death was a point on a line that stretched back into the 1940s and beyond in my family - and in the nation.
I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
Not everyone is born to run a $4 billion company. There is no magic formula. I've learned, and I've grown by learning. That's why I've enjoyed being in business so much: It's stretched me.
I have great mood swings, maybe because of playing lots of different characters as I do. I'm like a gymnast whose muscles get too stretched. I've got better at it, but I have a lot of emotional energy.
There's a very fine line between martial arts and dance. Kicking with your foot stretched out, or kicking with your foot flat in someone's face, in terms of flexibility, it's all kind of the same thing.
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
I've done a lot of ad films where an idea can be translated in 30 or 40 seconds. But in a movie, an idea needs to be stretched for two hours, and requires you to draw a bit from your experiences in life.
I'm back in the gym doing squats. I still do the old school stuff. I'm just not concerned about putting the weight on as much as just going through the motions to keep things lubricated and stretched out.
Classical ballet is very extreme. You're doing it six days a week, and it's a kind of obsession of perfecting a move. So every muscle in your body has been stretched and tightened, stretched and tightened.
The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.
Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.
Penelope Fitzgerald's nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from the shelf with a single stretched hand. You'd be holding an eclectic bunch.