Elasticity Quotes

The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.

I'm a huge Marvel fan, and the fact that they take the liberties that they do in filmmaking - I think, if anything, that it dignifies the comics, and it says, 'Yeah. This is a strong enough, robust enough source. We can bend it; it's elastic. It's bouncy.'

My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.

Patience is moral elasticity.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

Part of the fun is finding out how elastic that box is and, you know, test the limits of what TV shows can do or what a music video can do.

I have the backbone of an eel.

There are only two ways to bring about protection of the workers, however, legislation and unionization. So far the majority of the people in this country seem to favor unions as a more democratic and elastic method, though certain things must be dealt with by legislation

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.

I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.

Bubbles are weird things. They're not fragile. They're infinitely flexible. They're not what we think they are.

If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it’s like his nerves are a piece of rubber that has been stretched out. It’s hard to go back to the original shape.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

I don't like silk underwear. They don't do the job, you know?

Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclusion that not all of it is going to be fabulously successful. But it's all going to be part of a long lifetime body of experimentation.

I've been coming back like a rubber ball for years.

A rubber neck is a necessary part of equipment.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured.

Flexibility is youth.