E.L. James Quotes

It's really the sense of isolation, more than anything, realizing how tiny you are down in this big vast black unknown and unexplored place.

Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.

There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.

Rose: You're trembling. Jack: I'll be alright.

It's an article of faith in Tinseltown: when liberals get mired in scandal, it's because they are tragically flawed; when conservatives get in trouble, it's because they are evil.

I think it's very unlikely that we're going to see a trade war between the United States and Mexico because it's in nobody's interest to see a trade war.

Violence is the most elemental truth of life. It's the central shaper of history, the ultimate determiner of whether A or B is going to get his way.

There are so many flaws, .. I don't think they can be fixed.

Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner life, and being rooted in the world.

In comedy, beware the split focus. The audience should focus on the face of the actor. The audience must see the setup. If there is action elsewhere on the stage, the comic line can be lost.

As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water.

I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.

People have to decide do we want our country for ourselves with the people in charge or are we going to elect the the KGB and the House Republicans to decide this election [2016].

Why are you sitting here when our democracy is under assault with the FBI acting at the behest of [Republican Congressman] Jason Chaffetz and sitting here acting like it is something legit?

These are the people who don't believe in evolution or global warming. So, why would they believe default would hurt anything?

The only politician in America I know with a man-date is Jim McGreevey.

As we know the KGB is all over this election [2016].

I think the American people ought to take their democracy back.

What does he stand for?

It's hard to think that you're a political consultant - not many people are going to get a crack at a thing like this.

No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously.

The country feels like it's entitled to abuse this state and forget about us, and we are sick of it.

No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't

No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.

Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn

The thought in my mind was that I must be a good merchant. If I were a good merchant, the rest would probably take care of itself.

It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.

Chinais a world class if not the world class property bubble, primarily high-rise buildings, offices and condos.

Healthcare is growing now at about 10 per cent per annum in the U.S. top line, versus 3 per cent for the economy. As someone with a sharp pencil and an eye for this kind of thing, this can't last.

The U.S. healthcare system is probably the most interesting large group of companies that are heading for major problems that we've seen in a long, long time.

Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting?

What you do with strangers is ignore them for. No second chance, no sorry I did it, never accept an apology, but never, ever get angry with strangers.

The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.

Anger is one of the most intimate of emotions and to expose it to strangers is one of the most stupid and sickening things to do. Never get angry with strangers because they are strangers.

It's always important to take time to study men -- important men. Friends and enemies.

Isn't it only laughter we can stay human?

How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable -- all at the same time?

Christ, it's so good to be alive.

You've commited murder just as much as Helene did. You killed a fly with a human head. She killed a human with a fly head.

The equations at which we arrive must be such that a person of any nation, by substituting the numerical values of the quantities as measured by his own national units, would obtain a true result.

I am not a Frenchie, I'm a Belgie!

Dying is such a waste of good health.

When a man forgets himself, he usually does something everybody else remembers.

Really bad people around the world, because of the genius of American innovation, use our products and infrastructure for their emails, for their communications.

Our focus is and should be on the leakers, not those that are obtaining it as part of legitimate newsgathering.

The more able we are to keep guns out the hand so criminals and spouse abusers all - the better. So the more information we have the better for law enforcement perspective.

I shouldn't talk about individuals in an open forum, at least without thinking about it better.

WikiLeaks is a important focus of our attention.

We're conducting an investigation to understand whether there was any coordination between the Russian efforts and anybody associated with the Trump campaign.

We all love privacy. We all care about public safety. And none of - at least people that I hang around with, none of us want back doors. We don't want access to devices built-in in some way.