Elastic Quotations

The needs of an 18-year-old in a college setting is something parents don't have a lot of direct experience with. Parents have to be a little elastic in all of this. There may be some very elementary kinds of things you haven't planned for.

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.

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.

To represent your country is something you always dream of. He's good enough to play, but we see him in there every day working with the elastic bands, just trying to survive.

In my training, I encourage public officials to recognize how things can look in the (media), ... test the elasticity of the law.

The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written

The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained when they are watched in a current, where they can be caught against a projecting edge and bent by the pressure of the current flowing past them.

The product is the team, the market is Boston and competitive responses are fairly muted. You sell most of your tickets to diehard Celtics fans and there isn't much price elasticity in terms of other sports teams or entertainment options.

But it's that flexibility, that elasticity of the Constitution that allows for that, and so that's part of its extraordinary brilliance that has allowed it to last as long as it has.

I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense a population, but we are blessed with a Constitution admirably calculated to accomplish it. Its elastic power is unequaled, which is to be attributed to its federal character.