Rigid Quotes

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either. - Paul Auster

You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really rigid character. But to be fair, I think George Clooney is a bigger teenager than any of the 'Twilight' cast. He's the guy throwing a football at your head and then hiding around the corner, pretending it wasn't him! - Anna Kendrick

Why would a tusk break the rules of normal development by expressing millions of sensory pathways that connect its nervous system to the frigid arctic environment? Such a finding is startling and indeed surprised all of us who discovered it. - Martin Nweeia

While the ideals espoused in No Child Left Behind (NCLB) are admirable, the realities of the Bush plan are not... NCLB imposes rigid and expensive mandates on public schools. It judges adequate yearly progress using a one-size-fits-all formula, a measure that gives schools an incentive to lower testing standards in order to meet federal requirements and, sadly, to push out students that may bring down a school's average score. - Howard Dean

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions. - John Boyd Orr

We're willing to look at new ways of measuring quality, if they make sense with the way we run our operation. We're not closing our minds to anything. - Brigid Quinn