E.L. James Quotes

Snow falling softly on lashes of eyes you love, and a cold cheek growing warm next to your own in hushed dark familial December.

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience)

In the industrial nations, there's a sense that Africa would go under without development aid. But believe me, Africa existed before you Europeans came along. And we didn't do all that poorly either.

Africa is always only portrayed as a continent of suffering, but most figures are vastly exaggerated.

If I don't need the money, I don't work.

If you're not getting close to capsize, you're provably not pushing hard enough

Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.

Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.

I would think Until I found Something I can never find; - Something Lying On the ground, In the bottom Of my mind.

You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.

I think people don't understand compound interest because typically no one ever explains it to them and the level of financial literacy in the US is very low.

Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles, justice and freedom.

'Fact checking' is opinion journalism pretending to be some sort of heightened objectivity.

Something should always change in a poem. The persona should learn something.

Won't you look down upon me Jesus, you've got to help me make a stand. You just got to see me through another day.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

Maybe my biggest aim is to bring a sense of that old mystery of rock 'n' roll into the new age of today's instantaneous and fast world.

He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.

The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole.

The most terrible things end, at last.

Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it.

Is n't God upon the ocean Just the same as on the land?

Looks can be deceiving; it's eating that's believing.

Women deserve to have more than 12 years between 28 and 40.

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.

A wet dog is lovingest.

You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.

If you are a police dog, where's your badge?

The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention.

The past is history, the future's a mystery.

The only freak show I got is between my legs.

I didn't run from the situation. I didn't hide the ordeal from the reporters like the sissy baseball players. I fought it head-on... We dealt with it. It's over. And now we're moving on.

Lust is the base of most physical ills, and like a tapeworm in the system, it feeds on our best energies and vitality.

Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do.

Thoughts are very real, even if we can't see them. They create real & powerful feelings & experiences.

Thoughts are like bullets. You should be aware when you walk into a building what energy is there, whose thoughts are there. People should realize when people think of you their thought is on you.

Beliefs can be roadways or roadblocks. A variety of beliefs can make life interesting and colorful.

I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.

There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.

Many Americans have never owned a book, and I'm not talking about because of the recent digital revolution. I'm talking about before there even was a digital revolution.

The darkness has departed and the night stars have passed by, you have touched my life like never before and I cannot stop thanking God for you in my life. Have a great day!

I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous and you cannot take anything for granted.

If we don't take responsibility for ourselves, someone else will take it for you.

This use of advertising - to add a subjective value to the product - becomes increasingly important as the trends in our technology lead to competing products becoming more and more the same.

The habit of mind which leads to a search for relationships between facts becomes of the highest importance in the production of ideas.