Rudy Francisco Quotes

#1. I swear that when our lips touch, I can taste the next 60 years of my life.

Rudy Francisco

#2. The human heart beats approximately 4,000 times per hour and each pulse, each throb, each palpitation is a trophy engraved with the words 'you are still alive.' You are still alive. Act like it.

Rudy Francisco

#3. I hate you, but I still I miss you, and a part of me still loves you.

Rudy Francisco

#4. Seeing is an experience. People, not their eyes, see. There is more to seeing than meets the eyeball.

Norwood Russell Hanson

#5. I love you in a language that I don't fully understand. In words that I haven't found enough courage to forklift out of my chest.

Rudy Francisco

#6. I write best when I am either, falling in love, or falling apart.

Rudy Francisco

#7. You want to know how I got these scars. I swallowed my pride and then it crawled its way out of my mouth.

Rudy Francisco

#8. Zen Master Dogen has pointed out that anxiety, when accepted, is the driving force to enlightenment in that it lays bare the human dilemma at the same time that it ignites our desire to break out of it.

Philip Kapleau

#9. Never ever forget that you are a constellation and I have owned a telescope since the day I was born.

Rudy Francisco

#10. I heard that karma is vengeful and is also a light sleeper. So I've chosen to love you like this.
Quietly.

Rudy Francisco

#11. The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#12. Ferrari always tries to get the best possible drivers, and my fellow team members have always been highly promising people.

Michael Schumacher

#13. Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?

Rudy Francisco

#14. She is my musician, and me, I'm her favorite song.

Rudy Francisco

#15. Power only tires those who don't exercise it.

Pierre Trudeau

#16. Instead of asking
why they left,
now I ask,
what beauty will I create
in the space the no longer
occupy?

Rudy Francisco

#17. My hobbies include editing my life story, hiding behind metaphors
And trying to convince my shadow that I'm someone worth following

Rudy Francisco

#18. I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I've always been ok at that.

Martin McDonagh

#19. I'm still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for.

Rudy Francisco

#20. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Oscar Wilde

#21. Work will work when wishy washy wishing won't.

Thomas S. Monson

#22. I loved you the same way that I learned how to ride a bike: Scared ... but reckless.

Rudy Francisco

#23. Dear Hands, I get it. You like writing poetry. But you can't bring a metaphor to a gunfight.

Rudy Francisco

#24. Pigeons flew in diminishing waves between the low buildings. The sun rose. It said, Now that you've done this, you can never have that. Now that I'm like this, I can never go back.

Stephanie Danler

#25. I'm learning that everything doesn't always come back the way you send it. Sometimes, love is more brick and less boomerang.

Rudy Francisco

#26. I'm following hot on her heels, smarting from her latest rebuttal, and I can't contain my temper as the flood of rejection washes over me, tossing me precariously close to the edge.

Siobhan Davis

#27. Some say, don't burn your bridges.

I say, if necessary,
let the kerosene
kiss it on the lips,

and watch it
turn to ash.

There's always more than one way
to cross the water.

Rudy Francisco

#28. My biggest fear is forgetting why I fell in love with writing. My biggest dream is never allowing that to happen.

Rudy Francisco

#29. My definition of love is being robbed in an alley eight times in a row and hoping that there's something about today that makes all of this different.

Rudy Francisco

#30. I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.

Baz Luhrmann

#31. Failure is when you talk yourself out of becoming something amazing.

Rudy Francisco

#32. Pour yourself into me and I will not let a drop of you hit the ground.

Rudy Francisco

#33. I bet if we dusted her heart for fingerprints, we'd only find yours.

Rudy Francisco

#34. The contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.

Emil Cioran