E.L. James Quotes

Debt is always repaid, either by the borrower or by the lender.

It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause.

Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions.

[T]he first bad bank loan was no doubt made around the time of the opening of the first bank.

The audience cares what the movie looks like, not about the sleepless night you had worrying about the thing getting developed.

You should just write the movie based on people you actually know and then just see who wants to play it. Cast the net.

If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one.

Life affirming doesn't mean good things happen.

Actors want to work with you but they want you to do their thing. Actors, whom I love with a blind partiality, sometimes they want to be soloists in the symphony, not a part of the orchestra.

You never know how bad a situation is going to be until you come out of it. But the nation has had two major hurricanes in [several] weeks, and we will be stronger because of it.

As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be.

Even more important than what we do, then, is who we are.

We live in a free country. While patriotism is important, liberty of thought and liberty of expression are even more important.

Back in the days when I was growing up, the SWAC had as good of talent as any schools in the state.

Further south, there are some airports, but none our size. Our airport is the gateway to the southern Kansas City.

I don't really think in terms of competing with myself.

We live in a world where everybody's supposed to be cool and act tough and put up fronts, and everybody is so cynical.

I always like to think that I make movies that are like Nirvana songs. They have a slow verse and then they pop into high gear and then they go back into slow and then they pop into high gear again.

My brain has always been wired in such a way that I'd rather communicate to a smaller audience who really get turned on by what I do than meet a wider audience and give them milk.

Every movie I've ever made has just kind of come together.

It's definitely not the character who it is in the comics, I'll say that much.

It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.

Title everything you do, if for no other reason than so you can find it again on your computer.

The message is that ultimate meaning is to be found in this present moment, infusing our everyday lives, here and now.

Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.

I don't believe it is in the state's interest to industrialize our ridge lines.

By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.

Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.

If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited from our elders.

The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that humans can imagine.

The scientific excitement in comparing theory with data, and developing some understanding of global changes that are occurring, is what makes all the other stuff worth it.

I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.

As a government employee, you can't testify against the government.

I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.

Talking nice about sun and wind and green jobs is just greenwash.

Some Democrats deserve to be criticized.

Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers.

The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.

I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change. No longer than a decade at most.

'Goals' and 'caps' on carbon emissions are practically worthless, if coal emissions continue, because of the exceedingly long lifetime of carbon dioxide in the air.

The United States did not sign Kyoto, yet its emissions are not that different from the countries that did sign it.

The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points.

The danger is that the compromises and special interests inherent in Kyoto-style targets and cap-and-trade will be accepted because of bureaucratic momentum.

Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.

Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed.

Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

Rising carbon price is essential to 'decarbonize' the economy - to remove the nation towards the era beyond fossil fuels.

Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.

Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.

There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.