E.L. James Quotes

What are we but our stories?

A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.

I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner.

Nothing important comes with instructions.

It's as though Trump has the charisma, the pied-piper effect, and could lead the whole nation off the cliff, and they would think they were on the way to Disney World.

All of us have weaknesses, but we also have strengths. God’s Spirit has gifted each of us for the good of the church.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

All God's angels come to us disguised.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.

Mr. Hitchcock did not say actors are cattle. He said they should be treated like cattle.

I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else.

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.

It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.

To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life.

Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals

Lincoln was not great because he was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it

When you're the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them.

The emotional findings, then, suggest that to gain the most benefit from writing about life’s traumas, acknowledge the negative but celebrate the positive.

A good idea has self-expanding qualities. It stimulates those who see it to add to it.

As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear she will not suit. All good cooks drink.

Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the smallest thing. Like I could be leaning over the sink to brush my teeth in a weird way and it happens.

I told myself if I ever made it to the level I want to be at, I'm gonna give back.

I love the success of my teammates more than my individual achievements. I've just always cared more about that since I started playing.

You and I, we'll be together 'til the six is nine.

Off stage it's cool-out time. You can't funk and roll ALL the time.

We'll know for the first time If we're evil or divine We're the last in line.

Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

What is more yours than what always holds you back?

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

Without awareness, we are not truly alive.

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.