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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People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.
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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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Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.
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Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.
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There are some people who will tell you oil is the greatest thing that ever happened to Nigeria. And there are other people who will tell you it's the worst thing that ever happened.
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Whatever I was writing at the time, I knew there was no market for it and never would be, because there’s never a market for true art, so my main concern was always to have a job that didn’t require me to write or think.
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I don't think it's a coincidence that 'The War Room' and 'A Perfect Candidate' are films that have been consistently shown and available for rental for 20 years. These are films that are more about the moment in which they were filmed: they also have a great deal to say about larger issues about who we are as a country.
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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.
