E.L. James Quotes

I think the reason why I'm the person who I am today is because I went through those tough times when I was younger.

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.

I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

If you put everything together as far as my mind, my body, my game. If you put everything in one bottle, this is probably the best I've been.

It would be easier if I didn't even make the playoffs, it would hurt less. But then I start thinking about how much fun it is.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don't go back on it.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications.

My thing is, I like playing guys who have a really interesting internal monologue.

The common denominator is that we want to make the world a better place, for women and for everybody, and we do it through sport.

It's not a case of us against them, it's a matter of melding all people's skills and resources to create a better world for everyone !

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

One of the challenges we set up for 'Puscifer' was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it.

I believe that when you go into a gallery or a museum, the most powerful pieces are the ones that don't have the words in the corner that distract you from the larger piece.

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.

If you're looking for someone who can beat the RAW divas, perhaps you should choose someone who's beaten every diva on RAW.

Every Could Has A silver Lining Mine is, At WrestleMania, I get to face you.. not only that but at wrestlemania trish Stratus.. im gona become the new women's champion

It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.

It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed.

Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft.

But what do you believe? I don't just mean religion. What are you sure of?" "That once I was not and that now I am. That one day I shall no longer be.

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.

Hope, that star of life's tremulous ocean.

I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.

The biggest qualification to be a good police officer is to have a high degree of emotional intelligence.

I have a heart with room for every joy .

Every believer is God's miracle.

Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.

He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be.

Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial.

Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are around of the Divinity.

The heart is its own Fate.

Nature means Necessity.

I run the gauntlet of a file of doubts, Each one of which down hurls me to the ground.

The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.

I cannot be content with less than heaven.