E.L. James Quotes

The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

I can be an incredibly fabulous person, and I don't have to be in the highest heels, the tallest wig, the skimpiest outfit.

No, Michael, I do not trust you on a boat, I do not trust you on a goat. I do not trust you here. I do not trust you there. I do not trust you anywhere.

So let's start at the very begining (a very good place to start...)

When you let the wolves guard the hen house, there's bound to be a few chicken dinners.

We didn't wish -- wishes are wasted... We didn't hope -- because our future was inevitable... And we didn't pray -- we were on our own.

Tease hair, not homos!

The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!

The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.

I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!

Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice.

The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.

Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting.

The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.

I could talk about Blade Runner forever.

The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.

He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.

Change is not an event, its a process.

For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.

All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.

The key to effective teaching is to remember how you learned.

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.

Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him.

In Italy, for the same price as a typical British hamburger meal including sweet, a builder's labourer could eat like a king - rather better in fact, because pasta dishes gain from being kept simple.

I've only got a fraction of the energy I once had, but I think I probably use it better.

The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place.

The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.

The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.

I won't have to miss smoking any more. Nobody smokes where I'm going: It's like a row of restaurants in California.

In Grimm's fairy tales, you kiss a frog and in two seconds, it becomes a prince. That is a fairy tale. In evolution, you kiss a frog and in two million years, it becomes a prince.

What matters is how many times you get up.

I once drew a picture of Jack Nicholson in The Shining. But I put it away after a Feng Shui expert told me about the bad vibes

It's not nice going into the supermarket and the woman at the till is thinking: 'Dodgy keeper'.

I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.

Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a word for something in us that music sometimes touches.

... the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

That got me a look so intense I was unable to interpret it - like the way cats sometimes fix on you. What they mean by the look is completely beyond understanding; but it's meant for you, you alone.

I'm not a great writer.

If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.