E.L. James Quotes

Never, ever, sacrifice what you want the most, for what you want the most at that moment.

Prayers aren't for the deity...They're for you, to recommit yourself to what you believe.

The Secret of Drawing consists of just two things: 1) Making lines on paper; and 2) Choosing where they go.

A choice with no consequences has no value. Making a choice knowing there will be consequences, and being willing to bear them, is what distinguishes the right choices from the wrong ones.

Jack," said Charles, "he's making up words again." "Yes," Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think?

You're a very odd man," said Bert. "I get that more often than you'd think," replied Charles.

Live deliberately. Decide: are you the kind of person things happen to, or the kind of person who makes things happen?

I think that nonexistent mythological creature just broke some of your toes," Jack said. Oh, shut up," said Charles

Interesting doesn't always equal practical, but being practical is always less interesting.

It is the world, my boy," he said. "All the World, in ink and blood, vellum and parchment, leather and hide. It is the World, and it is yours to save or lose.

That isn't a desperate act. That's a PLAN.

Always, always ask for what you want. Because the Universe might surprise you — and give it to you.

Discipline, Norah. If you're going to taunt them, remember to stick out your tongue.

Education teaches people how to think, while propaganda teaches people what to think.

Capital is to the progress of society what gas is to a car.

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his job when he does feel like it.

To force myself to earn more money, I determined to spend more.

Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.

New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.

All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.

It is clear enough by now to most people that the camera never lies is a foolish saying. Yet it is doubtful whether most people realize how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is.

All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is

The camera is just a machine, which records with impressive and as a rule very cruel faithfulness.

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.

A girl's brain is mysterious, but only in a superficial way-a way very exasperating to me.

I'll do what little I can in writing. Only it will be very little. I'm not capable of it; and if I were, you would not go near it at all. For if you did, you would hardly bear to live

One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind: and that as this state of mind changes, poetry is likely to dry up.

I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art.

Luck does indeed favor the well prepared.

You don’t free yourself from duty by running away. That only increases the weight on your shoulders.

Ah, but I am more perceptive than most of the universe. Especially the parts of the universe that are vacuum.

I hated relying on luck. When it worked, it made me feel so damned eerie.

Don't be a little paranoid; worry about everything, or let it all go.

That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.

Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit.

Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.

What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?

It is strange how the presence of additional people can make you feel more alone.

Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close, And breathed the long, long night away In statue-like repose.

For every time we regret keeping still, there are about ten times we regret speaking up.

Too often we seek justice for just us.

Being fearless precisely when you are most scared is the best hack.

The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again.

Infinite patience gets you immediate results.

It's in the valley of failure that we sow our seeds of success.

Out of silence comes the greatest creativity. Not when we are rushing and panicking.

Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.

Luck is created by the prepared.