E.L. James Quotes

Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea.

All art is a kind of confession.

Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.

Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself.

I'm not generally a big solo guy, because I'm not into showing off that way.

Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want.

Most of my guitars have been instruments that look cool. I'm not picky. I never think, 'Oh, this neck isn't made of ebony,' or, 'These strings don't feel correct.' It doesn't matter too much.

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.

We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities.

In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.

Anger and humour are like the left and right arm. They complement each other.

The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer's only stuff for sale.

When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.

You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.

Too many actors have run for office. There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified.

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay.

Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be.

The hair is really a way to push me even farther out of just what people know me for. I don't really know what people know me for.

I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.

I don't have many hobbies. If I think of hobbies, maybe ping pong. But I don't have a desire to get a ping pong medal.

Meditation is a way of slowing down so as to descend into the depths of yourself in the present moment, where God lies waiting to grant you a deep experience of your eternal oneness with God.

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.

Half to forget the wandering and pain, Half to remember days that have gone by, And dream and dream that I am home again!

In retailing, the formula happens to be a basic liking for human beings, plus integrity, plus industry, plus the ability to see the other fellow's point of view.

Our shared world is humanly unquantifiable and ideologically confused. Which one of them is capable of implementing the most recognizable harm or good?

Education is a vacine for violence

What can I do to help thee?" he asked. "Believe there is a tomorrow.

The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.

Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.

Killing is an excellent way of dealing with a hostility problem.

We learn about tithing by paying it.

But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.

The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so have no reason not to be honest

No one expects this nation to become a theocracy, where Christianity is the only value, but we do indeed say that the essential values and founding principles of the nation should not be ignored.

I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.

A free ride is life's most difficult journey.

Whenever you have something nice someone will try to ruin it.

Memory doesn't erase. The recall ability fails.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

When I was young I never believed that Australia was anything else except blessed. I thought it was a little dull when I was young, but that was 'cause I was a snob.

When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at last able to leave Piss-Artists Notorious.

Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.

Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.