Rachel Field Quotes

In football, what today is black, tomorrow is white.

I think that when you get right down to it, people do evolve on different issues. And, you know, I'm pro-life. And I was begrudgingly the other way.

I'm known for changing halfway through the day if my mood swings.

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

Anything can change in show business; you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the other.

Public opinion wavers.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.... The public have neither shame nor gratitude.

No law however formal can withstand the effect of changes in opinion.

The potential hot tomato of today can turn into the cold pop tart of tomorrow, and I know that.

You will get criticised, you will get praised - that's the way football goes. I've learned over a few years now that it can change within an instant.

I think the British viewing and listening public are very fickle. If they like you they will listen to you, they will watch you. If they change their mind then it's all over.

People don't like to see instability.

One thing you can rely on is that there will always be uncertainty.

The world's a scene of changes.

Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.

Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.

Life is fundamentally up for grabs

You can never tell what the public will think! But when something goes well and is well-received, it's a great surprise!

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be faster changing and more unpredictable than the present.

If fate is a shape-shifter, then loves is too. It can be, anyway, in its most dangerous form. It´s your best day and then your worst. It´s your most hope and then you most despair. Lightness, darkness, it can swing between extremes at lightning speed- a boat upon the water on the most dangerous day, and then the clouds crawl in and the sky turns black and the sea rages and the boat is lost.

The fickle populace always change with the prince.

Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.

A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever.

Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing