E.L. James Quotes

People are not interested in your product or your business; they are interested in solving their own problems.

The United States has been from the beginning greatly influenced and primarily influenced by the Judeo-Christian system of values.

It is deeply moving, powerful, and disturbing. A film that must be seen.

Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are.

I'm still heard on 1,500 radio stations across North America every day, about 220 million people a day in 150 countries.

Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of electrical forces, the first and last appeal of ignorance.

I just want things to work properly.

All our engineers are designers and all our designers are engineers.

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

This Christmas and every Christmas will be richer by sharing and enjoying gifts that cannot be held but only felt.

Noble fatherhood gives us a glimpse of the divine attributes of our Father in Heaven.

You cannot convert people beyond your own conversion.

Meetings don't have to be endless to be eternal.

The Holy Ghost is the greatest guarantor of inward peace in our unstable world.

Every father and mother are the family's store keepers. They should store whatever their family would like to have in case of an emergency...(and) God will sustain us through our trials.

President Hinckley's strong, continuing challenge to us is retention, which requires full cooperation between the missionary, the leaders and members.

Obedience leads to true freedom. The more we obey revealed truth, the more we become liberated.

Prayer is the Lord's great sterilizer against the germs of spiritual disease.

Gratitude is twin sister to humility; Pride is foe to both.

Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to action.

I agree with my father, Albert Einstein, don't believe every quote you read on the internet.

Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.

The last thing I want to be is a rich black superstar. I just want to act.

People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.

My voice is for hire. My endorsement is not for hire. I will do a voice-over, but I cannot endorse without making a different kind of commitment. My politics are very personal and subjective.

I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don’t know how I can ever express my gratitude for that because my parents would have been a mess.

Seeing alters the thing that is seen and transforms the seer

Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand.

To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when a painting's finished when I understand why I wanted to do it in the first place.

As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.

Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to.

It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art.

The range in brightness from the purple glow [of the sunset] to the dark sky above is too great for most films, and naturally it is beyond the range of printed pictures.

A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

Regrets over the past should chasten the future.

Twilight is like death; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morning of immortality.

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.

I think I'm out of crime fiction now, and I think the dividing line is American Tabloid.

Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist.

Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.

As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars!

For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.

The Marine Corps has been, and will continue to be, America's Expeditionary Force in Readiness - ready to respond to today's crisis, with today's Marine forces, today.

The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.

What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.