E.L. James Quotes

Society today is so organised that every individual group has the power to disrupt it. How is their power to be channelled into constructive channels?

The quickest way to destroy ocean science is to take human explorers out of the water

If you want to move through a virtual reality it’s called a video game, it’s been around forever.

I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.

So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world.

I don't look at scripts. I just write them.

I love it when I have a nightmare to me that means I got my money's worth out of that eight hours

I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.

I'm certainly not a fan of conversion when you could shoot the movie in 3-D.

Rose: You have a gift Jack, you do. You see people. Jack: I see you. Rose: And? Jack: You wouldn't have jumped.

The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans - but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago.

Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.

Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.

[Hollywood] hates America.

If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida.

I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.

Am I surprised that Joe Klein [pseudonymous author of Primary Colors which he denied writing] lied? No, because in my opinion reporters lie all the time.

The public is not greatly interested in saving a little money on a purchase at the expense of service.

Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.

A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.

I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.

Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.

I call it the Rule of Three. If you read a company's financial statements three times, and you still can't figure out how they make their money, that's usually for a reason.

So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money.

Burglars know there's more than one way to skin a vault.

Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars.

The more I know, the more sure I am I know so little. The eternal paradox.

Changi for me - of course it's easy to be wise after the event, and to discuss it cleverly after the event - was about as near as you can get to being dead and still be alive.

There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer

Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'.

Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.

We have no basis to conclude she [Hillary Clinton] lied to the FBI.

There is evidence that Democrates were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.

She [Hillary Clinton] used her personal email extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-related emails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries.

Never underestimate the incompetence of government.

From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was.

Socialism is the triumph of people's prejudices over their reason.

Easier will always win out over harder.

Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy.

The more money spent by government to address social injustice the greater the cries of social injustice.

Good times weaken belief.

No role in life is more important than to be a good mother.

Rich grandparents get more attention than poor grandparents.

Winning a lottery may prove to be bad luck.

The power of faith to ease our suffering is God's love.

Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn.

Social welfare is the most corrosive behavioral force ever unleashed by man.