E.L. James Quotes

Forget all you know & learn something every day.

The generation that has the greatest access to knowledge in the history of mankind is the one that cares the least about it.

Wipe your glasses with what you know.

It's very rare that publications double their frequency.

Every band that I've known that has done side projects or things like that - I don't respect them anymore.

A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.

There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once.

And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.

As children we listened to the sound of the sea still echoing in the shell we picked up by the shore. That ancestral roar links us to the great sea which surges within us as well.

Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.

I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I dislike to hear of any stray heroics on the prowl for me.

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.

Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.

A country that armed Stalin to defeat Hitler can certainly work alongside enemies of al-Qaida to defeat al-Qaida.

We need to make sure we have the best people we can in our operations, and that is a constant challenge. There is always room to improve.

The receptionist looked us over, then went back to typing something incredibly urgent—like her résumé́ for another job.

We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.

Loving and energizing others is the best possible thing we can do for ourselves.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.

Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

When it came to kissing, Harlow was the best.

Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride.

Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow.

I know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.

What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle.

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

A lady of 47 who has been married 27 years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody'.

You can't learn anything new, until you are open enough to forget everything you think you know

O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk.

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

I came in making choices about how I deploy aesthetics and imagery strategically. It seems to me that's the only legitimate way of making work.

Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding.

I don't want to be called a point guard, but I can't stop it.

I am tired of looking on what is, One might as well see beauty never more, As look upon it with an empty eye. I would this world were over. I am tired.

When I forget that the stars shine in air-- When I forget that beauty is in stars-- When I forget that love with beauty is-- Will I forget thee: till then all things else.

There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.

I always wanted to be a basketball player.

If it works, it's true.

In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says, "This is the real me!"

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.