Guillemard Plaza Quotes & Sayings

VISIBILITY - You've got to find a way to make people know you're there — Nikki Giovanni

Down where I grew up, able-bodied people do that which we believe God created them to do. Work is a blessing; it's not a curse. — Steve Southerland

Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors. — Caroline Baum

They have the kinds of things we can eat.' An unease crept up on Ifemelu. She was comfortable here, and she wished she were not. She wished, too, that she were not so interested in this new restaurant, did not perk up, imagining fresh green salads and steamed still-firm vegetables. She loved eating all the things she had missed while away, jollof rice cooked with a lot of oil, fried plantains, boiled yams, but she longed, also, for the other things she had become used to in America, even quinoa, Blaine's specialty, made with feta and tomatoes. This was what she hoped she had not become but feared that she had: a "they have the kinds of things we can eat" kind of person. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I felt like poisoning a monk. — Umberto Eco

Troubles of Straw Spun Into Gold

Just as in the fairy tale RUMPELSTILTSKIN, God will spin your straw into gold. You won't know how He does it, but He will. — Cheryl Zelenka

We unplug ourselves from the grid by recognizing that we will never cure our restlessness by contributing our disposable income to the bottom line of Bullshit, Inc., but only by doing our work. — Steven Pressfield