Churchwell Quotes

#1. The Doctor: I just don't like nastiness, and people getting away with it.
Churchwell: That sounds a rather, if you forgive me, innocent view.
The Doctor: That's as may be, but I'm sticking to it.

Paul Magrs

#2. There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it.

Sarah Churchwell

#3. History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.

Sarah Churchwell

#4. Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.

Sarah Churchwell

#5. It is the time to tremendous awakening toward "inquisitiveness" with cross-cultural sharing through technology and inner insights.

Pearl Zhu

#6. Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they've purchased. Failure doesn't enter into anyone's calculations.

Sarah Churchwell

#7. 'Sesame Street' was a pioneering educational T.V. show, intended to help underprivileged children. But even those of us middle-class kids spoilt for pedagogical choice couldn't get enough of it.

Sarah Churchwell

#8. Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life - but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.

Sarah Churchwell

#9. There is nothing on God's green earth that someone won't complain about including both God and green earth.

Vicki Myron

#10. In all likelihood, the only thing extraordinary about Tiger Woods was his golf: he had extraordinary coordination and extraordinary discipline - on the course, at any rate. That discipline was the source of his power.

Sarah Churchwell

#11. Facts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up.

Sarah Churchwell

#12. In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I had developed, and the pilot for 'True Detective' was one of them.

Nic Pizzolatto

#13. Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking.

Sarah Churchwell

#14. People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.

Sarah Churchwell

#15. The difference between old and new money is, after all, purely relative: it just depends on when you start counting.

Sarah Churchwell

#16. The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty - and to mystify that systematic disenfranchisement by making up something called race, which could serve as a distraction.

Sarah Churchwell

#17. Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.

Sarah Churchwell

#18. I could not be satisfied unless some fruits did appear in my work.

John Bunyan

#19. Turn a blind eye on logic and sense,
for eyes see facts and minds make mess;
mostly that's why we mistake for something less,
all of the shadows of those who conspire.
But where there is smoke, near is a fire.

Unknown

#20. Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#21. This, too, shall pass. Life is many days. This ends."

--The Fruit of Exile

Joe Churchwell

#22. In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as camouflaged racism, we will continue to be distracted by the spectre of race.

Sarah Churchwell

#23. If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.

Sarah Churchwell

#24. It was so easy to disown what you couldn't recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling. The only person you can be sure to control, always, is yourself. Which is a lot to be sure of, but at the same time, not enough.

Sarah Dessen

#25. You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.

Edwin Land

#26. Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.

Sarah Churchwell

#27. young people no longer "believe in the old standards and authorities, and they're not intelligent enough, many of them, to put a code of morals and conduct in place of the sanctions that have been destroyed for them.

Sarah Churchwell

#28. I loved books - not only the stories they contained, but the feel of them in my hands, the silk of the pages, the words all collected in one place.

Laurelin Paige

#29. Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.

Sarah Churchwell

#30. Stress is a choice.

Steven Jennings

#31. History resembles a guest list in that sense of the invited and the gatecrashers: the people for whom we have been waiting, and those whose presence takes us unawares.

Sarah Churchwell

#32. Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.

Benjamin Franklin