E.L. James Quotes

If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it.

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.

No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.

To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.

People say, 'Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies.' I think I've done two, out of 60.

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

The older I get, the more interesting I find lawyers and accountants.

I was a different kind of kid, oversensitive and all that.

I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke.

a greater evil than the restoration of the Bourbons to the world in general, and England in particular, can hardly happen.

Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants to hear what they have to say.

Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.

The Benson and Hedges Cup was won by McEnroe ... he was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread.

I've got life for a subject because as life starts to drain away, you start seeing very clearly what life is, for the first time.

She [Marilyn Monroe] was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short.

I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead!

The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more for them than sustain life.

Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.

In modern America, Judeo-Christian beliefs are often held up to ridicule and disdain by the media.

But churches always have been the leading cause of the need for churches.

Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

A controlling man, surely a mythical creature?

When Malcolm X was assassinated I was working at the Apollo. They brought his body to the Unity Funeral Home, which was around the corner.

I want results when I fight.

Benny [Goodman] used to practice 15 times more than the whole band combined.

It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.

I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.

There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.

Art without life is a poor affair.

When I am wicked I am in high spirits.

Her memory's your love. You want no other.

Keep making the movements of life.

In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.

Always keep a window in the attic open; not just cracked: open.

Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins.

She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.

Where I come from, taxpayers get justifiably upset that illegals can keep getting aid when we are cutting programs that help full-fledged U.S. citizens.

We can make America what America must become.

Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.

When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.