56 quotes found
“Be selective in your battles...”
“Quality sells itself. No hype needed.”
“Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that.”
“Fruit falls when you shake the tree. You have to keep making things happen.”
“Davids mouth dripped open slowly. He stood with his heels dug into my carpet, a dashed hope, a broken dream. No amount of money could top the priceless look that gathered on his face like an unmade...”
“The most empowering thing you can do though is to create innovative ways to bring in livable wages. That begins with a debt free lifestyle.”
“In order to grow, I promise you'll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they'll be the habits you're most in love with.”
“All those other girls are cake...I'm Crme brle...Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above.”
“I will Basquiat the canvas of your body like a Broadway Junction walland Gordon Parks you for those dark midnights when your scent fades.”
“You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturns spinning pulsars”
“Wrote my way out of the hood...thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything.”
“When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk, I know that my muse is present.”
“Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas?”
“No matter what the industry you choose to ultimately invest all your time and energy in, be sure you're the owner, founder, and CEO. Remember, if you don't own it, you can't control it nor can you ...”
“Unapologetically smitten with thunderstorms...the thought of rough sex beneath an acid washed moon and hydrated stars...”
“Lowkey punchdrunk off this Sangria-sweet love and all its prodigious trappings”
“Give me Pablo Neruda, picnic beneath a full moon & iridescent stars, black olives, cherries, dark things, canoe on a river...that's romance.”
“can't even sleep through the night without you and those sun-dried ginger ale complected limbs crocheted into my thighs...”
“THE NEXT DAY WAS RAIN-SOAKED and smelled of thick sweet caramel, warm coconut and ginger. A nearby bakery fanned its daily offerings. A lapis lazuli sky was blanketed by gunmetal gray clouds as it ...”
“thighs made of hymns, I read 'em like I'm reading runes. Now tell me where my future lies...your neck, can I Savion on it?”
“A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.”
“Whatever it is you want in this life, be it material things, a place you want to be, or an experience you want to have, you must first make it real in the realm of your consciousness.”
“Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more.”
“Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you.”