E.L. James Quotes

Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose Won't you let me go down in my dreams?

I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

My brother Alex fell in love with rhythm and blues early and gave me a strong dose of it.

I'm glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it.

If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.

Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people, 'Fire and Rain' speaks to them in that way.

Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.

The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.

For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.

I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

Muggs was always sorry, Mother said, when he bit someone, but we could never understand how she figured this out. He didn't act sorry.

I represent boxing. I represent the old school. That's me.

He's stepping up to challenge me. Anybody that challenges me, has got to get dogged out. That's my job.

I have always been ready to fight anybody out there, anytime, anywhere. I will knock them all over. My talent speaks for itself.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working.

It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want

I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

There is a higher more powerful part of you. Your higher self will come through your intuition, coincidences and synchronicity of all kinds.

Once you realize you're a spiritual being, you see life so differently. You respect things. You're more responsible to yourself and others.

Our connection with our intuitive self is ever present and always a part of ourselves.

We unfortunately are conditioned at a very young age, "You have to do this to be loved." That's why I put in the children. You have to open them up early, encourage them, and listen to them.

TV is a responsibility, not only in entertaining people, but using this medium of television in positive ways to teach people and enlighten people.

We are born with magic inside of us

Distraction is the most corrosive disease of the 20th century.

Luck, good or bad, is the invisible play of mind upon affairs, the effect of mental aptitudes and habits which are not in sight, but which work and bring forth their due issues.

I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.

Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Thinking well is integral to acting righteously. Truth and spirituality are of a piece: to know the truth is to do it. There is no dichotomy between the two. To be spiritual is to know/do the truth.

The whole wide world scares me! Seriously. I think what happens in our world is so much more frightening than anything I can come up with in my movies.

There's really no reason to rehash something that you've already seen.

Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.

Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation.

She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.

My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.

A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.

Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong.

Can't a person be born where they want to be born?

I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though I finally destroyed most of them.

Art is limited to the infinite, and beginning there cannot progress.

Man is immortal till his work is done.