E.L. James Quotes

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.

Older people do a better job of managing their impulses, and so they're better able to put off putting off.

The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one.

The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong.

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

I can take criticisms but not compliments.

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

Quick, name some towns in New Jersey

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.

Absolutes are absolutely dangerous.

Look at this body...Do I look like I use steroids?

Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

There is no dallying with God .

I am never as clear about any matter as when I have finished writing about it.

Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming.

Forgiveness is not an occassional act; it is a permanent attitude.

At Death we are aware that we are more than just our physical bodies.

If you have an open, loving, positive attitude, anything burdensome in life can be lightened!

In the particular lies the universal.

The first rule of business is FUN

I always believe your instinct is the most correct instinct.

Drop the whole subject and put it out of your mind and let your subconscious do its thing.

Do not make the mistake of holding your idea close to your chest… Submit it to the criticism of the judicious.

This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image.

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.

People will forgive anything but beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow

Somebody's sent a funny little valentine to me. It's a bunch of baby-roses in a vase of filigree, And hovering above them ... is a fairy cupid tangled in a scarf of poetry.

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started.

Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.

A good Christian cannot be a bad husband or father and, as this is equally true in everything, he who has the most piety will shine the most in all the relationships of life.

The nature of the place...whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs...generally gives hint as to its inhabitants.

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.

Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out, and two when it is in.

The scaffold has never yet and never will destroy an idea or a movement.

I saw you laughing with your friends, and your smile sucked me right in.