E.L. James Quotes

They are all different and I find it hard to tell what flute suits me best.

Those who want respect, give respect.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.

Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn.

The thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years!

I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.

There is nothing but death Our affections can sever, And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever.

Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.

Don't want to slump over the oars.

We do not attach any intrinsic value to the Cross; this would be sinful and idolatrous. Our veneration is referred to Him who died upon it.

...in place of seeking a reason for going abroad, I would prefer to say that I have failed to discover any reason why I should stay at home.

To me the soul of an Indian seemed as precious as the soul of an Englishman, and the Gospel as much for the Chinese as for the European.

This command seems to me to be strictly a missionary injunction; so that, apart altogether from choice and other lower reasons, my going forth is a matter of obedience to a plain command.

It's better to star in Oshkosh than to starve on Broadway.

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

We choose mania over boredom every time.

To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.

Running for president is the new selfie.

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking.

I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up.

The Fed can change how things look, not how things are

Credit is money of the mind.

Nothing beats a little cash in a bear market, of course, and the oldest form of cash is gold.

It's about bums on seats. If nobody wants to listen to what you are doing, it kind of defeats the purpose really, doesn't it?

God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.

[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.

I like to plan everything out and know exactly what we're doing. It's always important to me to work with a cast and a crew that not only I respect their talent but I really like them as people.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here (pointing to himself) and you are out there.

Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down.

It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.

I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street.

As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.

The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change.

The last time the world was three degrees warmer than today-which is what we expect later this century-sea levels were 25m higher. So that is what we can look forward to if we don't act soon.

We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.

Policy decisions on climate change are being deliberated every day by those without full knowledge of the science, and often with intentional misinformation spawned by special interests.

The 5-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slow down in the growth rate of net climate forcing.

...99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was due to human-made greenhouse gases.

The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade

Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate.

To become historically-minded is to be grown-up.

In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.

I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.

For me, a good friend is someone you might only see once or twice a year but each time it feels as though you've just seen them last week.

Drip, drip, the rain comes falling, Rain in the woods, rain on the sea; Even the little waves, beaten, come crawling As if to find shelter here with me.

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.