You can say what Pilates is in three words. Stretch with Strength and Control. And the control part is the most important because that makes you use your mind.
I'm for anything that lets writers stretch, in or out of their series.
As a teacher in order not to have to answer too many questions, you stretch your answers.
I like a great degree of compression. I like to mix lateral steps with forward ones. I don't want the prose ever to feel simply functional - at least not for any stretch.
My business life takes a big chunk of time, but I still put exercise in my schedule. I'm up at 5 A. M. and get up and stretch and go for a run in Runyon Canyon with all five of my dogs.
Heaven to me's a fair blue stretch of sky, Earth's jest a dusty road.
I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.
An answer is always on the stretch of road that is behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.
You don't bless what you love. . . It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands and you say God forgive me that I can't love but bless this thing anyway. . . We have to bless what we hate. . . It would be better to love, but that's not always possible.
Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of road so that the machine can take to the air.
It is not enough that our life is an easy one. We must live on the stretch, retiring to our rest like soldiers on the eve of a battle, looking forward to the strenuous sortie of the morrow.
Stretch targets energize. We have found that by reaching for what appears to be the impossible, we often actually do the impossible; and even when we don't quite make it, we inevitably wind up doing much better than we would have done.
If we can continue to win, hopefully they can falter a little down the stretch.
I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.
Yes, the sky was now a devastating, home-cooked red. The small German town had been flung apart one more time. Snowflakes of ash fell so lovelily you were tempted to stretch out your tongue to catch them, taste them. Only, they would have scorched your lips. They would have cooked your mouth.
I think Visions of Cody is the most radical book in terms of poetic stretch and the way Jack Kerouac is able to incorporate documentation and incorporate the live tape recording of Neal and so on.
I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.
We're going to fight and we're going to fight for every stretch of this nation.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.
When you are still young and not yet adult, you want to hold everything in your own hands, but if you have your hands open toward prayer, you are able to stretch out your arms and let yourself be led without knowing where. You know only the freedom which God's breath has brought you will lead to new life, even if the cross is the only sign of it you can see.