When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages I would always lay a wager than the man If not the wedding day is absolutely fixed on.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

The time I trust will come perhaps within the lives of some of us when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised when its nomenclature will be fixed and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.

I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.

What we now call school training the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.

If anything needs to get fixed in society it's people's consumption of other people's problems.

Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.

Traditionally scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given ' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science.

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles he can only discover them.

I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed.