Kona Quotes

#1. I don't want easy. I want the impossible. I want love so thick, I drown in it; it's the only thing worth having and, I'm sorry Kona, you're a nice guy when you're not acting like an entitled jackass, but I really don't think you're capable of being anything more than that.

Eden Butler

#2. The Hurt Artist is a riveting memoir by Shane Niemeyer that takes us on a raw, unedited life journey that includes the struggles of an addict trying to find peace and the joy and journey to every triathlete's promised land: Kona, Hawaii!

Jason Peter

#3. Kona was in tears, wailing like Bob Marley in a bear trap
inconsolable.

Christopher Moore

#4. Out came an extraordinarily complex network of plastic, brass, and stainless-steel tubing, which in seconds Kona had assembled into what Quinn thought was either a very small and elegant linear particle accelerator or, more likely, the most complex bong ever constructed.

Christopher Moore

#5. I made that decision back in 1985. I was out here getting certified in SCUBA with Garcia in Kona and I thought to myself, this is a place to wake up in in the morning.

Bill Kreutzmann

#6. As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education.

Christopher Moore

#7. Rum," said Kona. "Too much hostility in dat buzz. Rum come from da cane, and cane come from slavin' the people, and dat oppression all distilled in de bottle and come out a man mean as cat shit on a day.

Christopher Moore

#8. Ho' law an' Civ'lize ain't always the same, nay, see Kona got Kona law but they ain't got one flea o' Civ'lize.

David Mitchell

#9. If Kona were to get a new logo, it would have to be a original character, not some well know one.

Jimmy Piersall

#10. Call yourself a tea drinker all you want, but I know your sneaking in a cup of Kona....

Justina Chen

#11. Remembering the sound of metal clanging against wet tar sent chills up my spine. Car crashes always seemed like they couldn't happen to normal people, like me and Kona. But now I know that death can happen to anyone.

Jessica Mitchell

#12. A remarkable fact of nature is that problems almost always get solved just when they are meant to. And those who can help solve the problems almost always show up at the right time.

Cynthia Rylant

#13. Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

Leon Trotsky

#14. If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#15. You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

Taylor Swift

#16. That was a lot of skin for a Tuesday.

Erin McCarthy

#17. I certainly made mistakes.

Aron Ralston

#18. A portrait of a muscular grey-haired man with a grim, almost demented gaze and the sort of moustache that could beat you in an arm-wrestling contest.

Ned Beauman