E.L. James Quotes

On the ocean of life let your mind be the ship and your heart be the compass.

He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.

My dresses help women discover figures they didn't know they had.

Our society and especially those who suffer injustice need to feel the impact of our commitment to justice and our advocacy for the vulnerable.

The purer the application of socialism, the worse the results, the purer the application of capitalism, the better the results.

Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.

DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.

Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves.

Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies.

If scientists don't play God, who will?

My poor little New Zealand: exporting frozen meat in peace, live meat in war.

I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

Little Walter was the best harmonica player I ever heard in my life.

Sometimes you can have a reputation for not being relatable and nice because you had a bad day once.

Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

As an actor, I think most people have a tendency to want to demonstrate that they can act, they can emote.

We do not recognize our souls until they are in pain.

Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you.

The act of laughing releases some nice chemical into your brain, you feel good and it's free.

I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.

The hamster called. He wants his home back.

So there you have it, the extent of my charms: brown hair and eyes like unbarfed chocolate. I'm a lucky girl." -Max

You stand out like a fart in a church.

He could totally be your boyfriend," [Angel] went on with annoying persistence. "You guys could get married. I could be like a junior bridesmaid. Total could be your flower dog.

To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.

Nostradamus himself confessed that the vague manner in which he wrote his "prophecies" was so that 'they could not possibly be understood until they were interpreted after the event and by it.'

I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.

The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.

You see, the problem in life isn't in receiving answers. The problem is in identifying your current questions. Once you get the questions right, the answers always come.

Where Attention goes Energy flows; Where Intention goes Energy flows!

If we can know the beauty God is forming in us, we can bear the pain He allows in our lives.

I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared on cloth with the hair from the back of a pig's ear. It's that simple.

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst.

In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.

I'm a frotteur, someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible.

I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.

Dresscodes are for styleless people.

Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.

Superb historical romance, with a spiritual theme woven seamlessly throughout. I much enjoyed The Covered Deep and look forward to more from its author!

Think of it as the Doorway of No Return. The feeling must be that your lead character, once she passes through, cannot go home again until the major problem of the plot is solved.

Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.

I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's become diluted.

The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable.