Roiled Def Quotes & Sayings

Any so-called 'radical' strategy that seeks to empower the disempowered in the realm of social reproduction by opening up that realm to monetisation and market forces is headed in exactly the wrong direction. Providing financial literacy classes for the populace at large will simply expose that population predatory practices as they seek to manage their own investment portfolios like minnows swimming in a sea of sharks. Providing microcredit and microfinance facilities encourages people to participate in the market economy but does so in such a way as to maximise the energy they have to expend while minimising their returns. Providing legal title for land property ownership in the hope that this will bring economic and social stability to the lives of the marginalised will almost certainly lead in the long run to their dispossession and eviction from that space and place they already hold through customary use rights. — David Harvey

Dreams are like portraits; and we find they please because they are confessed resemblances. — George Crabbe

I was kind of confused. I thought, Well, if I get drafted, I'll go. Everybody was very concerned with it. I had friends who went. Some that came back and some that didn't. — Tom Berenger

A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music. — Fred Picker

It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet. — Uma Thurman

Reason and Faith are not antithetical, but rather synergistic. — R. Alan Woods

I just get onstage and sing. I don't think about how I'm going to do it - it's too complicated. — Sarah Vaughan

I think stuff on the radio is mostly good, but it's just not what I'm into. I'm not into rap metal. — Jon Crosby

Just washed, How chill The white leeks! — Matsuo Basho

Augustine said he wept more for the death of Dido than he did for the death of his own saviour. What about Book Four, the best book of the best poem of the best poet? — Boris Johnson

However, my wine told me not to worry about it. And who was I to argue with wine? It had never steered me wrong before. — Aly Martinez

sometimes things happen totally opposite to our expectations, but when we look back after a decade or so, that happened was more appropriate to our life — Sadashivan Nair

I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me. — Salman Rushdie