E.L. James Quotes

There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.

Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.

No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.

I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit back and watch and learn.

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.

I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.

Once you lose the weight, you're really anxious to eat healthy.

Medical tourism can be considered a kind of import: instead of the product coming to the consumer, as it does with cars or sneakers, the consumer is going to the product.

In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.

I wish there would be more movies about scientists.

It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith.

In order to work well, markets need a basic level of trust.

I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.

Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.

Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.

Wouldn't it be great if the technology we used to take care of ourselves was as good as the technology we use to make money?

The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world.

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.

If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

We aren't addicted to oil, but our cars are.

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

I don't smile as much as I should, even though I smile inside a lot.

I'm a big movie fan, and I want to make movies in every genre. I want to make my romantic comedy one day.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.

One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

Anger is a good motivator.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.

In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.

Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms.

I can remember every outfit I wore to every party going back to 1983.

And what do we have here? A scary monster, cowboy, and a fairy princess! Here's a hit of ecstasy, run along now.

If letters had eyebrows, these would be arched.

Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?

A chart of numbers that would put an actuary to sleep can be made to dance if you put it on one side of a card and Bombo Rivera's picture on the other.

You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.