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“Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine, and valleys of frustration and failure.”
Calvin & Hobbes
“Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve.”
French Proverb
“Down the stretch, we've been struggling with our pitching staff, but he's taken the ball. He's been our best pitcher down the stretch when things have been tough. It means a lot, it really does. He continues to go out there like he did in 2003, no excuses, just give me the ball.”
Alan Trammell
“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.”
Charles Turner
“When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.”
Saskya Pandita
“They are focused. There's no question about it. This is their stretch run, and they've got to make the best of it. They're going to be awfully tough.”
Lou Piniella
“It's like childbirth. It’s uncomfortable, painful, sometimes bloody, but you’re always being stretched.”
Dr. Howard Tullman
“Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them.”
Charles Gounod
“We do stretching, push-ups, pull-ups and all sorts of torture. You can't be in the group unless you can do this stuff.”
Ben Miller
“In some sense that fear of not dropping the ball can really hurt you, in terms of not stretching and kind of going off in interesting new directions.”
Will Wright
