E.L. James Quotes

Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.

It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.

There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine.

A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.

I'm hoping that Penn State will one day be able to find a cure for cancer. Being a part of THON means I'm doing my part to find that cure.

If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream.

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.

There's a film I did called 'Front of the Class', about a teacher who had Tourette's. That was a beautiful blend of drama and comedy. There's some great moments of levity in the script.

I'm a pretty quiet guy, but if people want to think of me as a lady killer, I guess that's good.

If you feel pain, you have to make up your mind whether you can play with it or not.

It's somewhat of a normal procedure sometimes when you have a knee drained... so long as it's not something you have to do every game.

And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands.

People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.

So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe.

Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again.

It's a lot easier to get your way if you have more than one way.

The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace.

There are, of course, two kinds of suffering, that which has a reward and that which doesn't.

Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.

I don't have the first clue who he is talking about, because all I worry about is Jerome.

Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design.

My job involves a lot of different skills now - I'm as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days - but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do.

As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement.

Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach.

I feel lucky that I even have the luxury to write about feeling lonely or feeling confused. When you think about climate change that means that we won't have an Earth to be lonely on.

It is just so cool to play on the beach right next to the water. I am deeply moved by water as I think most people are - so to play music with it is a most powerful experience.

I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine

I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.

On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.

I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children.

One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.

A glimmer of light is better than no illumination at all.

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

All my stuff is pretty seamless - like now, while I'm touring [Yesterday I Sang The Blues], today I'm going to go in the studio, I'm writing my next one. For me it's continual.

Things that annoy me end up fuelling my ideas.

I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think.

Jordan couldn’t keep the smile off her face. “Yeah, I like this guy. He rescued me from a crazed man with a gun, he makes me laugh, and he calls his mother Ma. I’d say he’s a keeper.

Never send a boy to do a woman’s job, Irma.” - Payton Kendall

The appearance is the allusion of abstraction when in fact I am in control of every aspect of that symmetry.

I want people to understand that this is a very calibrated image [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], where point by point, very little is left to chance.

You've got to go after your dreams. If you don't make an effort, nothing's ever going to change.

You don't want to do anything that doesn't glorify God in every way.

You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.

I've always had something in my heart where I root for guys who struggle with women.

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.

Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.

I am too busy with my cause to hate too absorbed in something bigger than myself. I have no time to quarrel, no time for regrets and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him.