#rigid

But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#arise #because #cannot #changes #community

Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs. ↗

— Jeanine Basinger

#cloth #cut #everyone #flexible #how

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly. ↗

— Anita Desai

#i #own #rigidly #story #structure

My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic. ↗

— Manolo Blahnik

#incredible #mother #rigidity #very #which

Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show. ↗

— Fanny Brice

#because #best #fall #frigid #men

The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production. ↗

— Earl Browder

#conditions #conflict #continue #expand #forces

Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#i #little #little man #man #me

And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant money on a very rigid formula all across the country, with a certain percentage to each state. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#across #agree #certain #country #criticisms

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - "indoctrination," we might say - exercised through the mass media. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#control #democracies #exercised #ideological #indoctrination

I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin! ↗

— Steven Cojocaru

#because #bit #change #everybody #formal