#etc

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#fingers #heavens #heel #her #nailed

I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing that again. It's just not me. I really am happy as a part-time film composer, not a full-time film composer. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#again #am #composer #directors #doing

Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#difficult #ever #extraordinary #fun #had

I carry a golf ball to put under my feet when they get tight, and a Thera-Band for general stretching. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#carry #feet #general #get #golf

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched. ↗

— Virgil

#better #now #perhaps #times #us

I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#breakdown #course #daily #daily life #empty

Singing really oxygenates your blood. You stretch your lungs and take in much more air into them than before. It's really good for your health. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#before #blood #good #health #into

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. ↗

— Voltaire

#books #communicate #fetch #find #fire

Even the two times that I left, I never really felt like I left the band. It's very bizarre. It's like there's sort of an umbilical cord that stretches between us spiritually. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

#between #bizarre #cord #even #felt

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#attitudes #away #beauty #because #certain