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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat. -- Barbra Streisand
You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic. -- Dylan Moran
Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know? -- Yoko Ono
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting. -- James Rainwater
Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty. -- Romola Garai
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it. -- Marcel Proust
I have two pairs of stretchy maternity leggings and jeans, which I will never give up, because once you experience an elastic band for a waist, you will never go back. -- Daphne Oz
I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a catharsis in telling a miserable old tale; you get rid of demons. -- Anne-Marie Duff
I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about. -- Barbra Streisand
My first attempts to transplant nuclei in Xenopus were completely unsuccessful, because the Xenopus egg, unlike those of other amphibians, is surrounded by an extremely elastic membrane and jelly layer that make penetration by a micropipette impossible. -- John Gurdon
There's a myth that free-to-play is cheaper than a $60 game. It's just elastic. For some users, it winds up being a lot more expensive. I would have paid $150 a year to get a better version of FIFA. -- Mitch Lasky
I tell myself that after four children my belly is already so stretched and flabby that I have to do origami to get my pants buttoned. One more pregnancy and I'd be doomed to elastic waists for the rest of my life. -- Ayelet Waldman
My first day of high school, I wore brown boys' corduroys that my mom had sewn Sesame Street elastic into - they were my coolest pants - and a lime green Patagonia fleece that my mom found at Goodwill. I loved fleece. -- Cameron Russell
Wallace and Gromit's contraptions are created purely for gags, but we all have the urge to invent - especially children. If they're bored, kids will make something from cardboard boxes, yoghurt pots, tape and elastic bands. Often, those constructions are the best. -- Nick Park
From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too. -- Melissa George
I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light. -- Ang Lee
Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand everything, and make you feel anything. Other arts can do that, but movies are the only ones that can incorporate other media into cinema. -- Wesley Morris
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Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer. -- Hermann von Helmholtz
Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster. -- Kate Moss
I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies. -- Ben Affleck
There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond - topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self. -- Carrie Fisher
My favorite monster has always been the zombie. They are so much fun. They can be scary, pathetic, sad, funny, tragic, even heroic. They are the most elastic monster because, even with all of that, they don't interfere with telling stories about the humans. They serve as threats and metaphors, but they allow the story to be about people. -- Jonathan Maberry
I am never less disposed to sadness than when ill and alone. Sometimes I have fancied that it was the nature of my disease to create a rising, elastic state of mind, but be that as it will (I speak solemnly), the hour of bodily suffering is to me the hour of spiritual joy. It is then that most I feel my dependence on God and his power to sustain. -- Dorothea Dix
Art is an elastic sort of love. -- Josephine Baker
The present is elastic to embrace infinity. -- Louis K Anspacher
I've got thick skin and an elastic heart -- Sia Furler
Never root for a team whose uniforms have elastic stretch waistbands. -- Susan Sarandon
In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article -- Charles Dickens
See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them. -- Herman Melville
Her courage seemed to collapse around her ankles like an old pair of elastic undies -- Julie Anne Grasso
Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble. -- Jonathan Lethem
The human spirit is like an elastic band. The more you stretch, the greater your capacity. -- Bidemi Mark-Mordi
If one does not wish bonds broken, one should make them elastic and thereby strengthen them. -- Ardant du Picq
My guilty pleasure is elastic-waisted pants. And reruns of shows Ive already seen 400 times on TV. -- Ross Mathews
My guilty pleasure is elastic-waisted pants. And reruns of shows I've already seen 400 times on TV. -- Ross Mathews
The yogi will tell you that you feel and look as young as your spine is elastic. -- Richard Hittleman
The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing. -- Mahatma Gandhi
But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time. -- Mark Twain
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. -- Henry David Thoreau
No matter what that makes elastic - sharply, intellectually and sincerely, keep at bay it as noxious waste. -- Swami Vivekananda
In the underworld, reality itself has elastic properties and is capable of being stretched into different definitionsof the truth. -- Roderick Vincent
God, three weddings in one day, I'm going to be in Spanx for 12 hours. My elastic line is gonna get infected again. -- LIZ
There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish. -- Tryon Edwards
Can it then be that what we call the 'self' is fluid and elastic? It evolves, strikes a different balance with every new breath. -- Wayne Muller
I don't need new boots I got bluchers back down home. Eff the effing bluchers I'll buy you new adjectival effing elastic sided boots. -- Peter Carey
Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it. -- Charles Yu
We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color. -- Lin Yutang
In economics, when you put together a highly elastic thing and a highly inelastic thing, you create extraordinary potential for turbulence, volatility, and for unstable prices. -- Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely non-existent in fact. -- Ouida
But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you can't even imagine from where you're standing now. -- Shauna Niequist
There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation as most women ever get. -- Katharine Whitehorn
Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is one thing sure about life: Life will push us hardly many times! When you are pushed, don't be surprised; stay firm like a plane tree or be elastic like a bamboo! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is missing or remains fixed or changes its shape. -- Julio Cortazar
How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into elastic patterns called "sentences." And these sentences into paragraphs, and beyond. -- Joyce Carol Oates
We give people major responsibilities even if they are only 60 per cent ready. Our experience is that people are pretty elastic when you give them responsibility, and they just grow rapidly with the job. -- Azim Premji
If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success. -- Henry David Thoreau
For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, Exhaust the energy of strongest souls And numb the elastic powers. -- Matthew Arnold
The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is a memorable crisis which all things proclaim. It is seemingly instantaneous at last. -- Henry David Thoreau

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