Rachel Shenton Quotes
We value 'stuff' quite highly. Why? Because that 'stuff' apparently matters. Not only that, we use it as a measure of how successful we are, and as a result of that, having more of this 'stuff' often determines how people treat us.
Quotes to Explore
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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Nothing else matters except that I have fun, and I'm still having fun.
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Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.
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What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
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When all else fails, complicate matters.
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In New York, you can just wake up and everything sorts itself out. I love that, not having a plan.
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Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.
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If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Tone matters more than words.
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I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.
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The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
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Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
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I often get too emotionally involved in my cases.
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I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.
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Because French is the language of love, my boy. Something you should keep in mind, but will soon forget.
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No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
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I said I deserved a home fight, either Philly or Puerto Rico, since I'm always going to someone else's place to fight. Everyone thought it was a great idea to go back to Puerto Rico.
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We value 'stuff' quite highly. Why? Because that 'stuff' apparently matters. Not only that, we use it as a measure of how successful we are, and as a result of that, having more of this 'stuff' often determines how people treat us.
