E.L. James Quotes

Let go of the anger, hang on to the good lessons.

I would prefer not to throw myself on a funeral pyre. Please come back to me.

I have come to the conclusion that silence and time are the most precious commodities.

You’re the only one for me. I came back from the dead for you, Daisy. Twice.

The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.

I love you," he said, his voice catching. "When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die.

I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself.

God Almighty, your ruined, and you didn't even eat the gingerbread.

One more time, she promised herself. That wasn't too trollopy. She wouldn't be too trollopy. But when they actually got to the guardhouse? Trollopy.

Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing.

He's male. I've noticed that sometimes the brains simply get left out of the package.

Some say writing is its own reward. I write for money, but writing for money is not so bad, especially when that writing brings you joy.

It’s better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can’t be yours, then never to love at all.

Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts.

Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person.

Life does not always gives us the choices that we want

I never did learn how to live in the moment, but I did learn that moments could be wasted and the world would continue to spin on its axis.

Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.

He wanted to grow old with her, or not grow old at all.

You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.

Yes Leopold," Eleanor said in a low, mocking voice. "Do start to shine, please. I think I saw the rising, but I definitely missed the shining.

As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.

In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.

The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class.

The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal of explanation before a Martian could understand her.

the true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife.

Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would lie through doing nothing at all.

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

I figured I could do "It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World" because I believe it's the truth.

Country music has the great stories.

Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.

My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.

Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person.

I like to shop, but I don't like to go out to dances.

To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.

I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him.

We love the night and it's quiet.

The only way those Ten Commandments and prayer would be stripped from that Courtroom is with the force of arms.

[James vowed again to] use the National Guard and state troopers to prevent the removal [of Judge Roy Moore's Commandments display].

Behind this judicial wall of separation there is a tyranny of lies that will fall... I say to you, my friends, let it fall!

At Sun, we have a special number you can call if there is something important happening.

Selfridges’ Christmas hot list includes faux fur animal hats by Merrimaking, currently enjoying a cult status in Japan and amongst festival goers.

Where did Gabriel get a lily, In the month of March, When the green Is hardly seen On the early larch?

You wouldn't run a marathon the day before you run a marathon, you need to leave some sort of surprise for your body.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.

You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.

To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed.

All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground.