E.L. James Quotes

To be the best of all time, you have to do it over and over. I want to keep it up, and then the numbers will speak for themselves.

Put me in any city, I'll end up doing something with kids. That's the time of your life when it's pure fun.

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do

And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent

You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.

And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.

There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.

In case there is any question in your mind," he said, cupping her face with his hands. "What I want, what I most desire, the loveliest sight on this dark earth, is you.

I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I'd spit in a minute.

I was a sloppy kid, wanted to be just wild.

I'm not starry eyed, and I'm not money crazy.

It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.

And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.

A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight.

True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature.

History is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive.

It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.

. . . unless there comes to the Nation a greater emancipation than Lincoln's Proclamation effected, it is doomed, it is bound to go down.

I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace.

Every war is a national misfortune.

If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.

When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.

...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.

I don't care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.

The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . .

I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.

The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.

London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which is in itself a satisfaction to sense.

I ought to tell you that I'm probably your cousin.

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.

I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it.

Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.

Life's to short for chess.

... every human being is an unprecedented miracle.

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.