E.L. James Quotes
I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.
In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.
My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!
I really turned into, you know, the real street kid. I was kind of like a runaway, but I had a mother, you know what I mean, and I had a place to stay.
My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself.
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man.
We all think we have time, you know. It's this miracle substance and there seems to be so much of it, and then all of a sudden, it's gone.
I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals.
How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.
I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.
The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world - and the most dangerous.
.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.
People underestimate me, maybe because of my look, maybe because of my speech, and I love that. I love to give the impression that I'm an easy victim. I ain't nobody's fool, believe that.
I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.
Within the Gospel of Jesus Christ there is room and place for every truth thus far learned by man or yet to be made known.
The only way to acquire spiritual knowledge and keep It burning brightly is to be humble, prayerful, and to strive diligently to keep all of the commandments.
You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to do good.
Almost every day brings opportunities to perform unselfish acts for others. Such acts are unlimited and can be as simple as a kind word, a helping hand, or a gracious smile.
In France, religion had been considered the enemy of liberty, but in America, as George Washington expressed it, religion and morality were the 'twin pillars of freedom.'
To those who say Ted Bundy should burn forever in eternity I would only say, so should I, so should all of us.
Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation.
If an artist is any good at all, then he or she will have a later phase that's more interesting than the early one.
Beyoncé and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen.
I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like to write phrases that people can't forget as soon as they read them.
