E.L. James Quotes

I am completely Socratic.

It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright guy.

A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.

If your company disappeared, would it leave a gaping hole that could not easily be filled by any other enterprise on the planet?

The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of popular aspirations.

No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.

Someone's always saying, "It's not whether you win or lose," but if you feel that way, you're as good as dead.

There's a big difference between wanting to work and having to work. And I had to learn that the hard way. Now money is very important to me, because I ain't got it.

I hate putting up taxes.

The nation that leads in renewable energy will be the nation that leads the world 10, 20 years from now.

You can't really call yourself an environmentalist if you're still consuming animals. You just can't.

The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.

If you faced a long hungry period with nothing between you and starvation but a bit of barley and a pig, you'd be better off turning the barley into beer and letting the pig starve.

I don't just want to be associated with a few good 3D movies and the audience is saying all of the other ones are crap.

It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.

God wears white flannels.

You don't need to buy a $7 billion company to penetrate maritime security. The Mafia doesn't buy FedEx to smuggle.

History is a story of violence at work. It all comes down to the old saw that, however much you can gain with a kind word, you can gain more with a kind word and a gun.

The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer.

They seem to be getting it together. How much damage will the picture of people spending four or five days on rooftops do That depends on how well it goes from here on out.

Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople.

It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.

We can serve our customers well only if our buying jobs are right. You cannot sell if you haven't ordered wanted goods into your store.

Safe-breaking and vault-breaking are at least as old as the pyramids and burial chambers of Egypt. Poking holes in vaults and safes for profit appears to be as durable as greed.

What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?

Horses are far worse than men for treachery.

Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing

Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.

Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings.

Getting is more fun than having.

Young atheists abound, but old atheists are rare.

The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.

It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies.

Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.

The eyes of the owner can see what no one else can see.

The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin.

Perhaps the greatest difference among people is between those who never have to worry about money and those who do.

The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.

It's impossible for a dishonest person to grow rich in business.

Taxes are a penalty on progress.

I'm not sure people even think of me as an actor at all.

I'm a professional singer. I have a theory that all actors want to be rock stars, and all rock stars want to be actors. I spent my whole school life forming boy bands.

Fondue is not a good date food.

I have a film called 'A Lonely Place For Dying,' which is the most watched film on the Internet, over 3 million hits, more than any of Hollywood's films.

The only person more cynical than a drunk is a reformed drunk.

One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.

People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.

Place 5 percent to 10 percent of your total assets in gold bullion and selected gold and silver coins. No one knows with certainty whether the coming depression will be inflationary or deflationary.

There certainly was a lot of potential in the air for doing a magazine which focused on the way business, in particular, was being transformed by the Internet.

I don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading.