E.L. James Quotes

As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.

Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth.

Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.

I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.

No idea is ever dead until those who believe in it say it's dead.

The Presidency is not a bed of roses.

I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description

Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don't need them.

[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.

I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.

What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.

My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial

Good-to-great companies set their goals and strategies based on understanding; comparison companies set their goals and strategies based on bravado.

Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and a bottle.

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.

Suicide is not a remedy

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thinker.

To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise.

It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers.

Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.

The heart of the problem is not so much how we see objects in depth, as how we see the constant layout of the world around us. Space, as such, empty space, is not visible, but surfaces are.

Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired you have to shuffle back to the center of the ring, fight one more round.

A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.

I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.

People get caught up in formulaic answers. When one doesn't work, they just go on to the next.

Be rigorous about your HR decisions. There is a difference between rigorous and ruthless.

Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.

It's hard to see any institutional structure that stands in the way of the homogenization and simplification of these supply chains in international capitalism, unless it is the nation state.

No amount or combination of alternative fuels is going to allow us to continue running what we're running, the way we're running it.

The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things

The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.

The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie.

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

Man mind yoursel is the first commandment.

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.

I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.

I never rode a bull - I'm not that stupid.

Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.

Because I was raised in a Christian culture I never considered myself to be a totally free human being.

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, "What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?"