Donald Goines Quotes

#1. Pimping is an art, Whoreson. There are very few pimps in this world who can really take the title of being a pimp. Just because a man gets his money from a whore, that don't make him no true pimp. Real pimps are really rare.

Donald Goines

#2. The reason so many people do not pray is because of its cost. The cost is not so much in the sweat of agonizing supplication as in the daily fidelity to the life of prayer.

Samuel Chadwick

#3. I've read every one of Donald Goines' books. So as soon as I heard there was an opportunity for one of his novels to be turned into a movie, I jumped at the opportunity.

DMX

#4. I don't know if I thrive in normal life.

Kathryn Bigelow

#5. You don't know how precarious things are, how close this world is to falling back into ruin.

Victoria Aveyard

#6. The goal of a successful negotiation is to achieve our objectives and continue to have people like us.

Sheryl Sandberg

#7. The snow of twenty-nine wasn't real snow. If you didn't want it to be snow, you just paid some money.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. Okay, I admit it: sometimes I sound like a fortune cookie

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#9. If the birds sing, the nudes are not far off.

John Hawkes

#10. There is no box...

S.L. Jones

#11. I'm naming my son just what he is. I'm a whore and he is my son. If he grows up ashamed of me, the hell with him. That's what I'm wantin' to name him, and that's what it's goin' to be. Whoreson!

Donald Goines

#12. The quality of education today decides the tomorrow of Gujarat ... Government may build schools, but the future can be built by the schools only. The key responsibility of building Gujarat's tomorrow thus lies with the schools.

Narendra Modi

#13. Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.

Warren Buffett

#14. The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change.

Vinod Khosla

#15. It was the secret of advancement in the service: Always be on the side of what is going to happen anyway.

John Jackson Miller

#16. Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you.

El Cordobes

#17. The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.

Marlene Dietrich

#18. Clarice scrawled, 'A question from when I was a little girl that I can answer only now: are rocks made, or are they born? Answer: rocks are.

Benjamin Moser