E.L. James Quotes

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

I encourage everyone to become their dream. Most young people get sidetracked and never end up doing what they really set out to do.

Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.

My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'

It pays to remember that societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

if we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without

When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.

There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

I know I have a face like a model, but I’m actually just a goofy drama nerd underneath.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being.

The transfiguration of matter occurs through wonder.

Change your practices without abandoning your core values.

A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

An individual's harmony with his or her 'own deep self' requires not merely a journey to the interior but a harmonizing with the environmental world.

The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

The interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.

If you're into what you're playing, that's the most important thing.

We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide.

Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.

If you want the best results in an organization, you must rely solely on merit.

And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

No polity can be devised which shall perpetuate freedom among a people that are dead to honor and integrity. Liberty and virtue are twin sisters, and the best fabric in the world . . . .

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.

See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.

Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.

If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.

Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.

I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.

If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.

... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.

When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.

I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra.

Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.

Value change can change our pathetic capitulation to consumerism, which will help us psychologically as well as environmentally.

We can either laugh in the face of death or die trying not to.

[C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.

Successful investing is about having people agree with you ... later.

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do. Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't

During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle, where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer's eyes sparkle.