E.L. James Quotes

What I like most about cigars is simply sitting and talking with other men… Some of the best conversations I’ve ever had with men have been over a cigar.

I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.

Grilling, broiling, barbecuing - whatever you want to call it - is an art, not just a matter of building a pyre and throwing on a piece of meat as a sacrifice to the gods of the stomach.

Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

Faith in God - life can never take you by surprise again.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive.

You can't suffer over two things at once.

Targets and timetables do matter. But there is a dispirited feeling that the U.S. just rejects multilateral target-setting for the time being.

When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.

Arguing with people is like reading your e-mail at 4 in the morning. There is absolutely no good that can come of it. It's just scratching an itch.

When the facts change, you change your mind. I know that is a hard concept for people to get sometimes.

The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.

No man can give at once the impressions that he himself is clever and that Jesus Christ is mighty to save.

The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'

To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was made from his funny bone.

Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me.

You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain way. If you make a movie it's really an act of translation.

What you need to do is build the house you will live in. You build that house by laying a solid foundation: by building physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health.

Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.

If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it.

You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill.

This is a revolution of the mind, get your mind together and get away from drugs.

Hearing that the same men who brought us 'South Park' were mounting a musical to be called 'The Book of Mormon,' we were tempted to turn away, as from an inevitable massacre.

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.

Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.

Fear is the contradiction of faith. Faith says, Whatever it is, it'll be okay because of God.

You got to live for yourself, yourself and nobody else.

What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent.

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is

So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.

Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.

Resistance to tyranny is service to God.

Chiropractic care is the only real, long-lasting relief that I have found for my neck pain due to an old injury.

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

Suffering perfects the soul.

The Supreme Court has said that America is a Christian nation. But to make such a statement today causes reporters, newsmen, and many politicians to go ballistic.

I urge all who have not yet received these greatest of all blessings within the walls of the temple to do whatever may be necessary to qualify to receive them.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.