E.L. James Quotes

Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.

Almost every day, instead of going to school when I ought to have gone, I usually made for the fields, where I spent the day.

The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished.

People who say "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" never felt a broken heart.

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall not be able to sleep again.

Liar, lawyer, mirror show me. What’s the difference?

Knuckle deep inside the borderline. This may hurt a little but it's something you'll get used to. Relax. Slip away.

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

I dont know how to say this but... I LOVE YOU

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudice overcome?

Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.

Punk Funk means to be one with yourself. To be rebellious, aggressive, able to do and say what you feel at all times, without inflicting mental or spiritual pain.

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

KISS hammered home the importance of high drama...I decided to design my show with the same goal; I wanted my fans to remember my show for the rest of their lives.

The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.

I refuse to be beaten in any way shape or form, so I'm gonna beat this too.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

Effort is a measure of a Man.

The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Relief has its place. But what the people need is not relief, but release - release of their own potential for development.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential.

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

I am a pisces, a fish out of water, searching for a way back home.

If you are not learning, you are not living.

When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System.

Whoever debases others is debasing himself.

I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.

The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea.

Besides my great fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.

One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

Mathematics is the music of reason.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.