E.L. James Quotes

Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important.

One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience.

Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.

There is not much new in management, but there is a lot new in business.

I am out of money,we are all out of money,but we dont need money down here- Dont need anything but Men , Muskets, Ammunition, Hard Tack, Bacon and Letters from home.

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.

..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.

I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.

Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.

There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

My God! What is there in this place that a man should ever want to get into it?

Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.

A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.

When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.

To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.

Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer on down?

Animals form an inalienable fragment of nature, and if we hasten the disappearance of even one species, we diminish our world and our place in it.

It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth.

In six pages, I can't even say "Hello.

I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?

I have only one bit of advice to beginning writers: be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty.

When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I am going to live as if I were a great man.

It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing.

I think young people ought to seek the experience that is going to knock them off center.

The decent thing to do is to get rid of some of this money.

You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out.

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward.

organizations like the church or General Motors promote a man up and up until he reaches a spot which he is obviously incapable of filling, and there they lay him to rest.

First buy a cowboy hat and boots. Then you're on your way to being a Texan.

[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so long as it stays within the bounds of moral decency.

Contrary to what people think, I slave over my books.

It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.

A group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.

Never forget, son, when you represent Texas, always go first class.

A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.

I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers.

On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years.

I was surprised when shortly after New Year's Day of 1983, the Governor of Texas summoned me to his office, because I hadn't been aware that he knew I was in town.

Music is the language of all. It tames the savage beast and allows us to get over heartbreak. It helps us express what we really want to say and it has the power to lift hearts and awaken our souls.

Are you desperate or determined? With desperation comes frustration. With determination comes purpose, achievement, and peace.

Forgive, forget, learn the lesson and move forward!

What happened yesterday is over. What happens today is up to you.