E.L. James Quotes
The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state...Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.
I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.
Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.
The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph.
Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.
The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things.
The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.
To use ones religion as a rationalization for lack of financial success demeans that faith.
Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.
The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious.
So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another
Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.
People must know that their ideas will be listened to and, if they have merit, acted upon. If they do, it is possible to mobilize individual creativity on a very broad scale.
You can get a few seasons out of power, even accomplish some things, but over time power can be very damaging to relationships.
The drive for progress doesn't wait for the external world to say "It's time to change."
The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent.
There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
The psyche is highly flammable material. So we are always wrapping things in asbestos, keeping our images and fantasies at arm's length because they are so full of love
My vocals are bad, I can't sing, hey man, I wouldn't ask you to do a drum roll if your arm was falling off.
There was so much good and different music back then and you'd just keep moving through it and discovering more new stuff. I went through my Black Sabbath phase before I even started playing guitar.
I was pretty quiet as a child. I kind of hung out with my family and listened to music and sh*t. I wasn't too outgoing at all.
A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.
Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.
In almost every walk of life, people buy more at lower prices; in the stock market they seem to buy more at higher prices.
Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film.
Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you've got to remember those inspirations.
I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.
