E.L. James Quotes

Some libs took offense at my David Broder quip earlier. In my own defense, I was taught in college it's OK to disrespect dead white males.

Yasser Arafat remains in stable condition after dying in a Paris hospital.

Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you gotta do is call, and I'll be there, 'cause you've got a friend.

Shower the people you love with love Show them the way that you feel Things are gonna work out fine if you only will.

All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

Creativity is the process that gives life to a new product.

I need time to develop the idea into a plot before I talk about it.

Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends.

The man who tells me an indelicate story does me an injury.

Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no higher than that.

I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as "all righty" and "yes indeedy" and hundreds of others.

Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.

Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.

Men are more interesting than women, but women ae more fascinating.

Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.

What would you do without me? Say 'nothing.'" "Nothing," said the Prince. "Good. Then you're helpless and I'll help you.

I don't remember any blue poodles.

Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him.

good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power.

Any chance beats no chance.

I cannot teach -- if I teach as teaching should be I become so exhausted I nearly die, I seem to have no middle gear.

I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am full of parentheses. Revolutions can't abide parentheses.

It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen.

I will probably go to jail, but do you know what? There's a lot of good people who go to jail.

The cruelest form of death, I have no doubt, is not physical death. Rather it is that public death which comes from the killing of ideas about God.

Following the path of love is always your soul's true desire.

Everything is energy. Thought is energy and thoughts are real things.

When you're around negative energy it gets to you if you keep letting it affect you.

The universe is limitless and so are you. There is a limitless supply of good that the universe wants to show you. Step out of the way and let it be!

You never truly know someone until you've stood in their shoes and walked around in them.

I love people, studying people. That's the Scorpio part of me. We are natural detectives; we like to find things out.

You get one chance to make an impression and coasting through is a disservice.

We preach democracy while supporting dictatorships.

I'm looking forward to the future, which is a good thing, because it's coming.

The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read.

Textbooks are written in an oracular monotone, so that they claim to be true and important.

All of the common core standards stuff about critical reading and critical thinking and so on can only be positive.

[Lockyer]... sometimes forgets he is only the editor and not the author of Nature. [Lockyer was the first editor of Nature.]

[Lord Brougham's writings on the bee's cell contain] as striking examples of bad reasoning as are often to be met with in writings related to mathematical subjects.

Who bides his time tastes the sweet Of honey in the saltiest tear; And though he fares with slowest feet Joy runs to meet him drawing near.

Golfers are genuinely courteous in a discourteous world. Show me a guest on The Jerry Springer Show who's a golfer.

The Hall of Fame has strong people.

They can buy whatever brand they want. We will supply the finance.

I asked the Mesquite coach who he thought the best team in Mesquite is. He said they were about even.

Look: I am nothing. I do not even have ashes to rub into my eyes.