E.L. James Quotes

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.

Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries.

But no one ever is allowed in Sleepytown, unless He goes to bed in time to take the Sleepytown Express!

Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.

I 'd rather be handsome than homely; I 'd rather be youthful than old; If I can't have a bushel of silver I'll do with a barrel of gold.

Man is lonely mainly because he has been disconnected from the Divine presence.

Writing really is a difficult craft and there are many parts to master.

If I never meet you In this life Let me feel the lack A glance from your eyes Then my life Will be yours

Number, place, and combination . . . the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred.

As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.

To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.

No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.

We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.

And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father.

Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.

He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy.

I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once.

One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.

I'll tickle his catastrophe.

Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin.

Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.

My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.

It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.

Always see a fellows weak point in his wife.

The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a man.

The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.

He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?

The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue.

If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.

Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.

General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.

I love you Sarah. For all eternity, I love you.

Don't you know That lovers make the rains, Call forth the sun, Re-route hurricanes, And exorcise earthquakes for fun.

I was born to find goblins in their caves / And chase moonlight / To see shadows and seek hidden rivers / To hear the rain fall on dry leaves / And chat a bit with death across foggy nights.

Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.

It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.

Ensure everyone knows what success is and what their role is in achieving it.