E.L. James Quotes
You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.
At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.
Men aren't really complicated. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they've said, when really it's obvious.
I want to be one of the best ever. It's important to me. Why can't I be? Who's faster than me? Not many. Who has the size and can move like me? Not many. Catch passes like me? Not many.
Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does
Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has.
Yes, it's quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together
We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night that we love so well as that on which the moon is coffined in clouds.
Don't try so much to form your character - it's like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose. Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I'm very glad therefore you've been a part of it.
The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind.
...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood.
...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.
Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.
The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.
Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked.
Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.
It is not possible to achieve by vigilance in anger and revenge what the soul is longing for. The soul longs for peace.
Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.
No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.
The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank notes, and thus disturbing the business of the country.
Is religion a force for good? The evidence of history and the evidence of current events cast doubt on the truism.
...when men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness on their eyes.
We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.
Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.
Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar.