E.L. James Quotes

I look at the Christian Bale movies, the Batman films, and that shows you that superhero movies don't just have to be about men in tights.

So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.

The fool is looking for happiness far away. The wise man makes it grow under his feet.

We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.

The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.

The economic prerequisites for the socialist revolution are fully matured in the US. The political premises are likewise far more advanced than might appear on the surface.

Better readers are better thinkers.

gods are children's blankets that get carried over into adulthood.

I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years.

When each expects the other to live in his or her world, to always be there to join in his or her chosen activities, an ego battle inevitably develops.

What do women want? To be treated like a queen; but by a king, not a pawn.

That best academy, a mother's knee.

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

Structure is translation software for your imagination.

I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions.

I don't need other people. I don't need help. I can take care of me.

I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me.

It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.

Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body, just to live in your mind.

Reason is 6/7 of treason.

Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.

Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids.

I'm always willing to accept change, just as long as it isn't change for the sake of change. If that change will result in a better way of doing things, then I'm all for it.

No one is in your life by mistake.

I'd rather look forward and dream, than look backward and regret.

If you are centered in peace and think thoughts that are kind and loving, you will attract the same kind of ideas and feelings back to you. Remember, thoughts are like very powerful magnets!

Put your weird in your work!

...one of the best things about running is that no matter how fast you've run in the past, running fast in the future does not come easily or with any guarantees.

I'm lonely I'll make me a world.

For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.

Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.

You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It's not going to do me any good.

We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it.

I'm not sure that you can say definitively that some roles are better filled by consultants, but I would say that some projects are better handled by consultants.

I think that live music is something that the Internet can never kill.

. . .nature indifferently copied is far superior to the best idealities.

Like a lot of young people who wanted to be artists, comics were a gateway for me.

I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.

God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway; And as their subjects ought them to obey, So kings should feare and serve their God againe.

Yoga isn't just about the body, it's also about the mind and it's a technique that has really helped me.

This is a shining example of never quit, never give up, & never say never. I proved everyone wrong.

Don't just plan to write - write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.

Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.

I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies.

God does not want us to be living in the past, in shame, in fear, or in the future, in worry. He wants us to be living in the present, in now, with Him.

Love is a never ending smile...

I think you can tell when a New York show isn't shot in the city. It's so iconic and has such a specific energy.