Joe Simmons Madea Quotes & Sayings

I see a role for specialized knowledge, but I think that it's important for there to be an arena where it is shared, where it is communicated. It's not that somebody shouldn't have specialized knowledge. The ability to dig a trench and lay a cable is a kind of specialized knowledge. Farmers have specialized knowledge, too. The question is: what sort of knowledge is privileged in our societies? I don't think that a CEO is more valuable to society and ought to be paid ten million dollars a year, while farmers and laborers starve.
The range of what is valued has become so extreme that one lot of people have captured it and left three-quarters of the world to live in unthinkable poverty, because their work is not valued. What would happen if the sweepers of the city went on strike or the sewage system didn't work? A CEO wouldn't be able to deal with his own shit. — Arundhati Roy

The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction. — Oscar Wilde

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine the can design. — Friedrich Hayek

I think what I like best is that when people give talks or workshops, it doesn't really matter what level you are as a writer - whether you are a beginner, or you've been around the block a bit; there's something that you can take away from every session. — Antonya Nelson

Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star,
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar — J.R.R. Tolkien

There's such a thing as ruining your present because of worries about your future — Charles Sheehan-Miles

At no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance. — Dorothy L. Sayers