E.L. James Quotes

Can you do that?” Thomas asked. “Huh?” “Kill someone three times.” “I’d figure out a way.

The girl leaned forward and kissed Thomas on the cheek. “You’re sweet. I really hope we don’t end up killing you, at least.

Next time I'll pat you on the freaking back for stating the obvious.

Let's get this started, people. It won't be long before we all lose our minds.

Rose took my nose, I suppose

I'm a Crank. I'm slowly going crazy. I keep wanting to chew off my own fingers and randomly kill people.

The contemporary quarrel over church and state is not really about whether a wall of separation of church and state should exist or not... The real question is what does 'separation' mean?

I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue

Don't let the idiots ruin your day.

How can you measure acting in inches?

It's quite a mistake to think that music fans don't work on major record companies. Sometimes, you know, you do find some good people on corporates, among all the infidels.

I am an interpreter of interpretations

If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.

I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances.

Well, I was always... I used to get 100% in physics and chemistry and mathematics (well, maybe a couple of points off in mathematics), and that was in high school.

Care shouldn't start in the emergency room.

We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money

If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think.

I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.

The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge.

Believing requires action.

Listen to your parents. Be obedient to them whether you agree with them or not. They love you more than anyone else and have your best interests at heart.

Perseverance is demonstrated by those who keep going when the going gets tough, who don’t give up even when others say, It can’t be done.

I acknowledge with great gratitude the peace and contentment we can find for ourselves in the spiritual cocoons of our homes, our sacrament meetings, and our holy temples.

A Minneapolis, Minnesota high school teacher hung this sign under the clock in her classroom. "Time will pass...Will you?"

Bold objects require conservative engineering.

Just so you know, there's a space that only you can fill. Just so you know, I loved you then, I guess I always will.

I consider myself a novice film actor.

Actors never discuss future plans.

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries.

A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by the look of coloured slurries on the palette.

There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.

It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.

Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed.

I don't have children. I serve the world and I serve God by living as deep within my work as I can, reveling in the language of other times and putting it forth for the world.

I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done.

Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.

But have you wine and music still,And statues and a bright-eyed love,And foolish thoughts of good and ill,And prayers to them who sit above?

The church doesn’t have a mission; there is a mission, and it has the church.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.

It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.

God has given the salt lick to the deer; and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at which to slake his thirst.

To him who has determined, it only remains to act.

There are some weapons that are just so dangerous that society has a right and the obligation even to take those weapons out of circulation.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.

I got arrested for graffiti. I got arrested - a lot of, like, underage drinking, drunk in public, shoplifting, you know, your various, like, suburban arrests, I guess.