E.L. James Quotes

Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence.

People who never seen to learn claim the government can be made more efficient.

I love hard work. One Man, Two Guvnors was so physically tiring I ached all the time, but I took a massive amount of pride in the fact that I only ever missed two shows.

If I don't feel it, I can't play it.

As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you.

I don't look like a leading man, whatever they look like. It's changing a little.

Maybe I will go to Paris. Who knows? But I’ll sure as hell never Go back to Texas again

We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.

Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you.

The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

If we don't play God, who will?

I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.

When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.

When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.

The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did.

I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it.

The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change.

You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.

I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.

You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars.

I do love ponies. Wish I could eat one right now.

No. I kind of accepted it, in a way. That saving you was worth losing what we might've had.

What would I do without you? I'd die of stress and depression before nature killed me.

When I'm feeling a little empty in the head, I like to go see movies or read to loosen things up there.

Anybody else wanna pee their pants and cry for mommy?

It’s like watching a starving pig eat his own klunk.

But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules.

Hunger. It's like an animal trapped inside you, Thomas thought.

Quit voting me down before you even think about what I'm saying.

Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumours so little founded on truth

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.

I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.

To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

My fun days are over.

I think it's good that opportunity, like circumstances, can really affect what you do and you have no control over it.

I have a long track record of really horrible relationships and a divorce behind me; so I'm not the guy to ask. I just got really fortunate with this one.

Real acting is realistic no matter what the medium.

I love David Caruso. I know it's not cool, but I do. I watch CSI: Miami. I think he's interesting.

I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders.

I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.

I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that.

Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted.

Books and minds only work when they're open.

If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost, I would take that particular piece of mine, shred it, and flush it down the toilet, hoping not to clog the pipes.

If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.

He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.

You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.