Proper names are rigid designators.

“The only names of objects which connote nothing are proper names; and these have, strictly speaking, no signification.”

— John Stuart Mill

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

— W. H. Auden

I do not usually follow a rigid fitness regimen, and most of it depends upon what goals I have in my mind.

— Gautam Gambhir

The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.

— Eckhart Tolle

Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want. The idea of the rigid style…

— David Hockney

You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

— Bill Gates

The H-2A guest visa program has been prone to excessive delays and is too rigid to fit the changing needs of farmers and their…

— Elise Stefanik

I used to be very rigid because I just wanted to get through it. Now, if I think a scene should go a certain…

— Tom Sizemore

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

— Virginia Woolf

The more you plan and the more rigid you are, it takes away from your experience

— Matt Prior

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

— Malcolm Bradbury

India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.

— Steven Rattner

Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories…

— Flannery O'Connor

You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.

— Tom Stoppard

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined…

— F. Sionil Jose