E.L. James Quotes

Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.

Angelina Jolie and I love each other. IF that's unusual these days, that's sad.

I've heard what people are saying, and it's a very weird thing. They're going into a realm where it's somethign that's almost ugly, rather than something that can be so beautiful.

Don't ask me if life is worth living, live it yourself and find out.

It is important to bear in mind the now commonly accepted fact that in its primitive stages, religion had nothing to do with morals as understood by us today.

Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.

I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.

I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week.

I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.

I've actually seen a ghost, so I know they're really around.

I'm very cagey about making friends, and I rarely do.

I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.

I worry about the many things that could happen to the people I love.

I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.

I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my natural voice, just because I'm not as articulate as Martin Amis.

They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.

Every leaf is a spacious plain; every line a flowing brook; every period a lofty mountain.

The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry.

I believe in treating others as I want to be treated--but I certainly don't believe in turning the other cheek and the truth is that I never knew any Christians who did either.

As far as artists and musicians, they don't retire. They might tour less.

Aqualung is one that my brother turned me onto. It wasn't that hard-rocking, but Martin Barre had a really good sound. He knew what he was doing.

Send me money, send me green, and Heaven you will meet. Make your contribution and you'll get a better seat.

Rehab is like college for your head.

I've discovered that sheer quantity doesn't necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier.

Trios aren't really geared for slide unless you're gonna play chords, or play that simple George Thorogood style. It gets pretty thin when you play single note lines.

I think it's very cool for the drummer to be set free from having to worry about holding down the beat every once in a while, though it's a little constricting.

I love playing the melodic stuff. I love adding textures and colors.

We'd record a song that people liked and wanted to hear on the radio, and the radio wouldn't play it because it was too long. Or they wanted to edit it, which we wouldn't allow.

Patients have the right to help themselves.

Today, technology is moving faster than the research establishment.

How most consumers collect and interpret health information has changed.

We cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.

Calling can refer not only to ways of doing - meaning work - but also to ways of being.

Any symptom can force you to go deeper into some area.

The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.

Vessels expose the invisible Zeitgeist, the visible formed by the invisible.

In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's not a vocation.

We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.

Reconnecting to the animal means getting to a more sensitive, more artful and more humorous place in the psyche.

People used to trust their doctor. They went to an expert. Now people have new ideas and are thinking for themselves. That's a very important change in our collective psychology.

It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

Well, if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes. There is no deeper meaning behind things that gives me a reason to be here.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

Teachers today can't take to a child.

In the cosmology that's behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or do anything.

It's not enough just to be a mother. It's not only the social pressure on mothers by certain kinds of feminism and other sources. There is also economic pressure on them.

I don't think you can revive traditions on purpose.

So when you consider the archetypal, historical, and cultural background of whatever you do, it gives you a sense that your occupation can be a calling and not just a job.