E.L. James Quotes

There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.

It was Sunday morning (one a.m.), a not unusual time for some farmers, after a late Saturday night, to have a look round their stock and decide to send for the vet.

I will write another book if I feel like it.

Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.

Religion gives a dignity to distress.

The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise.

You want to hear vocals? Go sing it.

No one but me can save myself though its too late, death greets me warm, now i will just say goodbye.

When you're an actor and you walk into a theatre where your movie is playing, you're kinda proud. "Look at my skill!"

We like to set off bombs.

We discovered how much money influences certain things work in United States. How things might seem okay on the outside, but internally, they're corrupt.

I don't remember doing anything else; I don't remember not living in the studio. I'm itching for people to hear this album because I'm sick of hearing it myself.

Without time for loss you don't have time for soul.

The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten

You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters the world called.

Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.

We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation

And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart-better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

I am a musicologist, a doctor of music. Therefore I listened to, studied and analysed a lot of music. I also enjoy metaphors, the art of quoting and of cycles.

For instance, the most common type of "affordable housing" in the world comes in the form of apartments over stores.

Two decades from now, I doubt that the home building industry, so called, will even exist as we have known it.

Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.

I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a time out from technological progress as we know it.

Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and solar fuel.

And that's an even greater love: to love somebody when he's a little...worn at the edges. —Teddy Bear

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

Feed sparingly and defy the physician.

Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]

Fly and you will catch the swallow.

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.

Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.

This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers.

We are all snobs of the Infinite, parvenus of the Eternal.

Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard.

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

Since word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee.

I cannot think of a better definition of Christianity than that: give, give, give.

Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music.

Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friends. I'm pretty normal, whatever normal is, on my off time.

No, I've heard over the years that it's nice for them to see somebody who's like, you know, a well-known successful musician who's Asian. I've heard it from a few musicians, too.

Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues.

I live most of the time in New York now. I have an apartment there.

In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends.

Remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.

Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.

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