54 Quotes by Brandi L. Bates

When my son speaks of playing sports, I've always told him: playing on the team is great, but aspire to be the guy who owns the team. I've always told my son: most of the guys on the team will end up bankrupt with bum knees, but not the guy who owns that franchise.

Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas?

Your skin reminds me of everything beautiful I've ever loved... how the moon gets jealous at how you mock her crescent figure with the shape of your mouth... echo of unborn galaxies bounce forth through your vocal chords...

The light of an early Summer afternoon as it slips toward dusk has so many good things wrapped up in it..

Fruit falls when you shake the tree. You have to keep making things happen.

Quality sells itself. No hype needed.

The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness...

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.

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.