E.L. James Quotes

When I'm about Rick James, it's all about get out there and kill 'em.

I went to India, lived, and studied.

My girlfriend is a great support, and I've got a big circle of mates who keep my feet on the ground.

I just want to say thank you to everyone who watched and tuned in and loved my evil gayness.

I'm a working class lad.

Most actors will tell you that villains are the most interesting to play.

One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill.

I saw 'Captain America' in 3D. It's cool. I liked the beginning. It's a really good setup.

We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.

The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.

Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.

Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.

Every claim creates an obligation.

Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it

It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.

[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.

The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.

Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics.

Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.

The trail of the human serpent is thus over everything.

In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.

What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."

Work usually follows will.

Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so.

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted?

Max, if you survive your final test, can you steal me one of those magic outfits for me?" I'll try to get one for each of us. Hey! 'If'?

I didn't know a van could go up on two wheels like that, for so long." -Nudge

What's going on?" Newt asked, looking back and forth between Thomas and Aris. "Why're you guys looking at each other like you just fell in love?

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden.

Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

We tend to forget that words are, themselves, ideas. They might be called ideas in a state of suspended animation. When the words are mastered the ideas tend to come alive again.

Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?

God doesn't believe in the easy way.

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

If you also thinks it means I wake up every morning wondering what I did to deserve having you back in my life, well, you'd be right about that too.

My God, Jack - with a look like that, you two should just get a room. And try not to pick the one with a dead body next to it this time.

I’m not sure I trust myself around you I liked you from the start, J.D. I really wish things had been different, that's all.

There's always be a me and you.

Faith may want answers, but somehow it is able to survive without them.

Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.

Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible.

A classroom . People trying to stick me in classrooms was becoming as predictable and annoying as people trying to kill me, but with less-fun results.

Is that clear?" said Borcht "as clear as pea soup" I said