E.L. James Quotes

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

The Beatitudes, far from being a new set of virtues that further divide the religious haves and have nots, are words of hope and healing to those who have been marginalized.

Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another's happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.

Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.

Thinking is itself, however, an adventure.

Any time a secret group usurps the collective will of the people, it’s wrong. Period.

The dreams of youth. So noble. So good. And heavy dreamsthey were- made frail only by their own weight.

The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.

I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.

He turned to look just in time to see the rain start falling out as if the storm had finally decided to weep with shame for what it had done to them.

Ari smiled. The sun was shining, the weather was great, he was eating ice cream, and all his dreams were about to come true.

What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and world destruction?

Nature is usually wrong.

Newspapers are the world's mirrors.

Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business.

Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.

I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.

I spend my money on holidays and eating out, and it allows me to be generous.

Now God be praised, I will die in peace.

As I get older, I want to do more films for kids because they're the best audience around. Just putting a smile on a kid's face is the best thing.

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.

Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.

What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.

There are very few things that can be proved rigorously in condensed matter physics.

Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.

Most actors are very grateful for what is as opposed to what will be. You spend 98% of your time looking for a job, so when you get it, it's fantastic.

The Bible doesn't speak of "women's rights" in the social-political language we're used to hearing today. Still, that doesn't mean the Bible is silent on the subject.

The ezer is a warrior, and this has far-reaching implications for women, not only in marriage, but in every relationship, season, and walk of life.

The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.

I recognize that virtually every company that comes in here has a perspective. It's often not difficult to understand why they have the perspective that they have.

It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.

There are different kinds of people in the world.

Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.

The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife.

The Canadian version of Julius Caesar's memoirs? I came, I saw, I coped.

The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.

A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.

Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.