Another Time, Another Place Quotes

“They did this at the bank I worked at. We all had to go on a course where bright, sparkly people with frightening smiles exhorted us to embrace change because those who can’t die out. I think they cited the dinosaurs.’ ‘So they weren’t killed by an asteroid at all, then?’ said Bashford, astonished. ‘Not according to the expensive people hired to tell us that our expertise, the working relationships we’d built up over the years, all our hard work was now utterly valueless – as would we be if we didn’t get with the new programme. According to them, it was their inability to adapt to this month’s new ideas and working practices that did for the dinosaurs and the asteroid had nothing to do with it. They were quite horrified at our lack of enthusiasm for massive redundancies while senior managers – reluctantly, of course – accepted promotions and pay rises with increased bonuses.”
― Jodi Taylor, Another Time, Another Place

“Snow White was such a wuss. All that housework. Looking after seven men. And she sang while she was doing it. That girl was not bright.”
― Jodi Taylor, Another Time, Another Place

“curiosity overrode my better judgement – the very definition of an historian.”
― Jodi Taylor, Another Time, Another Place

“Trust me, adhering to everyone else’s rules is unrewarding, emotionally exhausting and not a lot of fun.”
― Jodi Taylor, Another Time, Another Place

“We all had to go on a course where bright, sparkly people with frightening smiles exhorted us to embrace change because those who can’t die out. I think they cited the dinosaurs”
― Jodi Taylor, Another Time, Another Place

“Every year a bird flies around the world and comes to a mountain. He strikes a rock with his beak and flies away again. And the next year and the next and so on. Until the rock is worn away. Then he moves on to another rock and then another and then another until finally”
― Jodi Taylor, Another Time, Another Place

“We’re all invisible until something goes horribly wrong and we suddenly wake up and find ourselves in the firing line.”
― Jodi Taylor, Another Time, Another Place

“no one ever takes any notice of admin staff.”
― Jodi Taylor, Another Time, Another Place

“We all had to go on a course where bright, sparkly people with frightening smiles exhorted us to embrace change because those who can’t die out.”
― Jodi Taylor, Another Time, Another Place

“there will always be those for whom the truth is an inconvenience to be removed”
― Jodi Taylor, Another Time, Another Place

“in these days of fake facts and government-sponsored misinformation, it’s more important than ever.”
― Jodi Taylor, Another Time, Another Place