A Quote by Randall Jarrell

Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?

Randall Jarrell

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Always Common Common Denominator Denominator Everybody Institution Lowest Lowest Common Denominator Man Shadow Sun

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Randall Jarrell
American - Novelist
May 6, 1914 - October 14, 1965

If you take a look at education, the kids that get good grades are said to humiliate those who don't. And what, then, do we do? Slow them down. We put obstacles in their way. We do not devise public education systems that are designed to deal with their superior learning ability. We retard it so that they don't learn any more, any faster than the lowest common denominator - and that really is the nub of it. The Democrats' equality and sameness is all going to be defined by the lowest common denominator.

Rush Limbaugh

The lowest common denominator of the universe is both low and common.

R. A. Lafferty

Obama is playing to the lowest common denominator of everybody, and he is telling them that if anybody's got more money than you do, it's not fair and it's unjustified and somehow you have been ripped off or screwed, and that is his message.

Rush Limbaugh

I don't connect accessibility with lowest common denominator.

Patricia Piccinini

A lot of films seem to go to the lowest common denominator.

Julie Andrews

What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.

Jim DeMint

The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.

Edgar Wright

I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.

Spike Lee

To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow? Can you shake that area of darkness that clings to you, always shaped like you, as if constantly to remind you of yourself? You can’t. This shadow is doubt. And it goes wherever you go as long as you stay in the sun. And who wouldn’t want to be in the sun?

Yann Martel

We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.

Charles Dance

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Jimmy Carter

Writing for TV or films isn't great art. You have to have a common denominator. It's up to the composer to make that common denominator memorable.

Henry Mancini

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.