Brandi L. Bates Quotes
Top 38 wise famous quotes and sayings by Brandi L. Bates
Brandi L. Bates Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Brandi L. Bates on Wise Famous Quotes.
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.
You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturn's spinning pulsars ...
His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea ...
Sometimes transitional periods in life leave you feeling like a great big jumble of loose, split ends.
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?
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.
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.
Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.
Unapologetically smitten with thunderstorms ... the thought of rough sex beneath an acid washed moon and hydrated stars ...
Every morning I look in the mirror and remind myself: "No one owes you sh*t!" In this way, I am never disappointed. Never placing blame.
That night I wasn't reading your palm ... I was monogramming my fingerprints on the sidewalks of your lifeline.
Pain speaks louder than words ever could. Like most things it serves as both messenger and a symbol.
Never accept yourself as a finished product. Be a finished product when you die. As long as you have breath in your lungs, expand yourself.
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.
So I watch my sadness, gleaming in all of its soft pastel glory. And I listen to the arguments against my sanity.
With you in my hand I can travel across the universe in one verse and skip moons to the tunes of Miles or Coltrane.
Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas?
Wind as old as Rome outside my window, inky fleece clouds against charcoal crushed velvet skies, fall feels soulful, like a LaBelle octave.
I will Basquiat the canvas of your body like a Broadway Junction wall ... and Gordon Parks you for those dark midnights when your scent fades.
Lick my finger so I can scan your table of contents- fuck the index- I yearn to ride your story line.
Give me Pablo Neruda, picnic beneath a full moon & iridescent stars, black olives, cherries, dark things, canoe on a river ... that's romance.
The light of an early Summer afternoon as it slips toward dusk has so many good things wrapped up in it..
Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you.
A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.