Famous quotes containing the word stretched:
“For when the gallows is high
Your journey is shorter to heaven.”
—Unknown. The Night before Larry Was Stretched (l. 5758)
“It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of oppositesopposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polaritywhere energies flow smoothly in one directionthere will be much doing but no music.”
—Eric Hoffer (19021983)
“Old men who never cheated, never doubted,
Communicated monthly, sit and stare
At the new suburb stretched beyond the run-way
Where a young man lands hatless from the air.”
—Sir John Betjeman (19061984)