E.L. James Quotes
A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.
It is disgraceful that people are being barred from neighborhoods and clubs on a basis that would have barred Jesus Himself.
I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.
What I went into the acting business for was to have a certain amount of chaos in my life. I don't know what I'm doing next. It's exciting. That's the way I like it.
I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get bothered.
What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not.
Historians, only things of weight, Results of persons, or affairs of State, Briefly, with truth and clearness should relate; Laconic shortness memory feeds.
Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without.
I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.
In documentary films, being able to be a storytelling and embrace film as an art form - while being very clearly connected in trying to help make the world a better place - is really important to me.
In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.
When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.
The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.
The American people don't need to just hear about the importance of the Constitution or the Bible. They have to understand that those principles are in their best interests.
It seems very obvious that a vast majority of the American people are sick and tired of political correctness and prevailing partisanship that does not serve the American people or freedom well.
I don't know the fitness that Donald Trump possesses to be commenting on other people's heroism. The most lethal foe that he is ever faced in his own life, I think was Rosie O'Donnell.
In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.
Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal. As I changed studios and got larger spaces, I made bigger paintings.
Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.
Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.
New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression.
What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, "more bright than morn!" And voices chanted clear and sweet, "To-day the Prince of Peace is born.
Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread Ends suddenly in the one sure centre, death, The visionary hand of Might-have-been Alone can fill Desire's cup to the brim!
Not a deed would he do, Not a word would he utter, Till he's weighed its relation To plain bread and butter.
There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.
'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it
Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.
Life sends us messages all the time - then sits around laughing over how we're not gonna be able to figure them out.
Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.
I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.
You’re so American. You believe everything is possible, everything will come. I know differently.