E.L. James Quotes

An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.

What is written is more influential than what is said.

Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.

You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines.

Love is the unexplainable energy that pulls us towards those who touch our heart.

In fashion even what seems most fragile must be built on cement.

It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.

Prayer is futility when compared to belief.

I'm not really very ambitious.

Inequality promotes progress.

I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood.

There are only two questions about government. How much do you want? How much can you stand?

What is more simple than to believe in God? Its very simplicity argues the case.

Living your life constructs your soul, not a few seconds of daily prayer.

A salesman sees a commission.

Governments institutionalize something for nothing.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.

How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.

We should count time by heart-throbs.

I like people in general, which is why it's fun for me to interact with my fans.

We can kill lots of people. We do kill lots of people. We can destroy virtually anything we choose to destroy.

In a country with millions of people & cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in a while.

General [James] Mattis's primary experience - indeed, his only experience - is as a member of the United States Marine Corps, where he served for 41 years. That's his experience.

Would the Element be a car for people who like hip-hop, or for people waiting for a hip-op?

Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me.

I wanted to join the navy to get some perspective on the world and explore.

I'm 5 foot 7, and I've got pasty white skin. I don't think I'm ugly, don't get me wrong, but I'm not your classic lead man, Brad Pitt guy.

I wanted to be a missionary and work abroad, but girls started to become a bigger part of my life around the time I lost interest in the priesthood.

I've never worked as hard as when I was at drama school. It's the most professional environment I've ever been in.

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

They who know most of God on earth or heaven know that they know little after all; but they know that they may know more and more of Him throughout eternal ages.

Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures.

The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported.

There is every reason to believe that our system will soon attain the highest degree of perfection of which human institutions are capable.

I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.

All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.

The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography?

I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.

I like routine. It enables me to improvise.

It's not death if you refuse it... It is if you accept it.

I am here to tell you my father was right. You are a raging f..kwit. Now f..k off.

Don't depend on others to give you strength....Find it within yourself

Okay, okay, okay. I understood that pushing the elevator button over and over again would not make the elevator appear sooner. But I couldn't help myself

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