E.L. James Quotes
My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics.
One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.
The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.
The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.
What any manager will try to bring to a company first and foremost is an energy and commitment to the business. To try and really roll your sleeves up.
I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds.
Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose.
You're lucky if you find something you like to do, and it's a miracle if somebody will pay you to do it.
Right now, America looks like a fatheaded, shortsighted, gas-guzzling arrogant blowhard to the rest of the world.
Call me crazy, but there's just something cheering about seeing huge raptors tear into Eraser flesh.
A psychological explanation of our feelings is not a moral explanation of our conduct.
Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies.
True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein.
I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.
They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something you already know, it's worth it.
If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350 words a day. Don't be shown up by a baboon
Anyone living in Los Angeles who has opposable thumbs is required to write a screenplay.
I would not cross the street to make a Baptist, but I would go round the world to make a Christian.
Our attitude is that if you hire good people and pay them a fair wage, then good things will happen for the company.
I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.
It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all.
Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots
In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection.
The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.
I never quite know when I'm not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, "Dammit, Thurber, stop writing." She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.
