Old Fijian Quotes & Sayings

Every view is peripheral now. — Karen Green

I'm trying to embrace social media because it gives artists a little more power than we've had in the past. — Billy Porter

It is like her mother has been struck by - what? Lightening. Her mother has lightened up since the moment they landed in this country and the plane door opened and the warmer air came in.
The moment they walked into this room she lightened even more — Ali Smith

When the all-father in eagle form had almost reached the vats, with Suttung immediately behind him, Odin blew some of the mead out of his behind, a splattery wet fart of foul-smelling mead right in Suttung's face, blinding the giant and throwing him off Odin's trail.
No one, then or now, wanted to drink the mead that came out of Odin's ass. — Neil Gaiman

The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin. — Mae West

It scares me how much I like her. She makes me want to say screw it all and rewrite my future. — Kim Holden

The only thing you really need to be a writer is time. Regular, consistent time, quality time when you're not tired.
I write on the bus to and from work, that's my time, 1 or 2 hours every single day.
Make the time, keep at it, and you'll be a real writer before you know it. — Jonathan Maas

History! Read it and weep! — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

When the occasional customer tells us his or her dream of running a bookstore someday, we recognize our own naivete in that enthusiasm. They may have some inkling about long hours and low pay, but rarely do they know about the fires, the guerrilla bargainers, the bereavements, or the prisons. Neither did we - then. But we sure do now. In all honesty, the scariest, hardest, saddest, and most important stories found in a bookshop aren't in the books, they're in the customers. — Wendy Welch

Your organization can start tweeting, but that wont change its DNA. — Gary Hamel

My father-in-law was a pilot. During World War II, he was shot down in a B-17 over Belgium. With the help of the French Resistance, he made his way through Occupied France and back to his base in England. — Bobbie Ann Mason

You have no confidence when you come out of surgery because you can't really do anything. You're like, 'Man, am I ever going to heal?' — Rob Gronkowski

There are times when it is appropriate, even preferable, to get an erection when someone's face is in close proximity to your penis.
This was not one of those times. — John Green

How you are perceived is over a continuum of time. So I just keep on working. I've kind of always seen that as the antidote. Just keep on working. — Antonio Villaraigosa