E.L. James Quotes
You’re disgusting when you eat,” Chuck said, sitting on the bench next to him. “It’s like watching a starving pig eat his own klunk.
An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
It is not my job to sit down and read peer-reviewed papers because I simply haven't got the time ... I am an interpreter of interpretations.
When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix, they thought Jamie was a little light.
It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights.
To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.
The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.
Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous.
Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth.
There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.
The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us
May we all be faithful in doing the day-to-day, ordinary things that prove our worthiness, for they will lead us to and qualify us for great things.
In addition to temples, surely another holy place on earth ought to be our homes. The feelings of holiness in my home prepared me for feelings of holiness in the temple.
Our natural gifts and abilities are limited, but when augmented by inspiration and guidance of the Holy Ghost, our potential increases many fold.
No pang that is suffered by man or woman upon the earth will be without its compensating effect . . . if it be met with patience.
More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.
I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.
Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.
I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.
So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.
Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.
The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff.
I'm not interested in popular culture. I hate Quentin Tarantino. I rarely go to movies. I hate rock 'n' roll. I work. I think. I listen to classical music. I brood. I like sports cars.
As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.
I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.
Why wouldn't female Marines come forward? Because they don't trust us. They don't trust the command. They don't trust the leadership.
Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies.
The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy.
The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union.
The best advice I can give to any young man or young woman upon graduation from school can be summed up in exactly eight words, and they are-be honest with yourself and tell the truth.
Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.
To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.
I told my girlfriend that a praying mantis female eats its mate after copulation. She didn't take the hint.