#stretched

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. ↗

— Zach Wamp

#borders #citizens #control #costs #failure

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#carpet #end #huge #like #me

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#back #dimensions #go #mind #never

When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame. ↗

— Wayne Kramer

#bands #beatles #before #could #end

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

#around #become #dominant #especially #europe

I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as well. ↗

— Matt Bomer

#busted #definitely #everything #got #i

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. ↗

— Albert Camus

#complete #fact #find #intelligence #itself

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#always #believable #comedy #exaggerated #ludicrous

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. ↗

— Paul Pierce

#been #bloomer #body #developed #grade

I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy. ↗

— Terence Stamp

#enough #fancy #i #some #stretched