E.L. James Quotes

I'm married to Metallica.

Writing is a political instrument.

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.

Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

The climate system is being pushed hard enough that change will become obvious to the man in the street in the next decade.

The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years.

One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

It’s not a requirement to eat animals, we just choose to do it, so it becomes a moral choice and one that is having a huge impact on the planet, using up resources and destroying the biosphere.

With the exception of my wife and children, there's nothing I value more than my Oklahoma heritage.

Writing is not primarily escape, but use.

I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.

When the ship docks, I'm getting off with you. This is crazy. I know it doesn't make any sense, that's why I trust it.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.

The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.

Things are always different from what they might be.

Don't pass it by - the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist's that it waits for.

It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.

The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.

There's art on the show that's really bad - these cliché Abstract Expressionist gestural things. It's almost like extensions of my performance, because in the scene I'm really mad.

A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.

As you expand your meditation practice, in concert with your faith, you will find that these divine moments come more often, until you are finally awakened to your own deepest self, one with Christ.

One does not become a guru by accident.

Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.

I learned that all things come to those who wait-provided they hustle while they wait.

I am so happy that I am alive and can walk.

Much was said and written, at the time, concerning the policy of adding the vast regions of Louisiana, to the already immense, and but half-tenanted territories of the United-States.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference.

The reality is that if you always do what you've always done, you'll always be where you've always been.

Life and death are the same...Leave karma to karma.

I take pride in whatever I do. If you told me to clean the room up, I'd clean it up real good.

Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.

I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.

No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.

You weren't going to the theatre to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.