E.L. James Quotes

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.

.......the truth is, while the FBI is hiding behind the 5th Amendment, the Unabomer is qualifying for Social Security as a terrorist. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.

Don't ever put anything past kids. They will surprise you in the best ways.

You can do nothing that is in conflict with your own image of what you really are.

Concentrate on poverty and you will be poor.

Think of today as an opportunity to discover and grow beyond your mental and emotional discomfort.

Based on our natural heritage as the Divine Light of God, every one of us possesses intuition... defined as the language of the soul.

Our souls cannot be forced to grow, but like flowers, our spiritual selves can be nurtured until they blossom and flourish.

Faith is an orientation of the total person, giving purpose and goal to one's hopes and strivings, thoughts and actions.

Holding back our thoughts, feelings and behaviors can place people at risk for minor and major diseases.

The act of not discussing or confiding the event with another may be more damaging than having experienced the event per se.

If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.

The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.

There's nothing more dangerous than a panicked politician.

I'm an Italian girl from the south who's very passionate.

Fashion is one of the most beautiful forms of art we have. It's a form of art that every person gets to possess and create for themselves.

Ad astra per aspera. Translated: "to the stars through difficulties".

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next '1' ready to be launched in case I drop.

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

I can't worry about what other people say.

I feel confident because I'm the best player in the world. It's that simple.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

When people feel good, they look good.

Seems like Ive been here before. Seems so familiar. Seems like Im slipping into a dream within a dream.

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.

We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

The truth of truths is love.

My favoured temple is an humble heart.

Doubt is the shadow of truth.

Now is my time. Everything I've done up to this point is just a warm up. This is where it all begins.

I believe everything happens under God's plan anyway.

What I like about the 'Underworld' thing is that it's a mix of cool genres, as well as creating its own message.

Once a decision is reached, stop worrying and start working.

It is your friends who make your world.

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.

Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time

The education of attention would be an education par excellence

Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.

A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.