E.L. James Quotes

I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.

We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do.

I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.

There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.

A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.

I am convinced that nothing but the hand of God can save us or help us as long as we have our present commander.

The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil.

We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.

What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.

I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.

I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back

When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.

You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air.

Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.

Clearly, I am not an anarchist. Philosophically, I might be, but I think in practical terms.

The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.

A gun is like breath to a drowning man--it has to be drawn in haste.

I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse, I was interested in growth stocks.

If you're wrong in the way you're right, you're wrong even if you're right.

Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again.

You might not think it now, but if you're one of God's children, you're going to figure it out by the end of your life God is good.

Truth [comes only] from those ... who cultivate their reason.

No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.

No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.

A just government has no need for the clergy or the church.

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.

How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation?

I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate wherever the Government assumes a freer aspect,& the laws favor a subdivision of property.

A public debt is a public curse.

From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results.

Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.

Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption

Testing is the process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous, so as to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous.

If you're lucky enough to pick what you do, that's the greatest career you can have. Ultimately, that's my goal: to have choices.

It would be cool to be invisible, but I'm afraid of what people would say about me if they didn't know I was there. Some things are better left unknown.

I love anybody who has convictions enough to make mistakes because only people who make mistakes get into enough trouble to be called drama, I think.

I'm just getting to know myself. I'm no wherwhere near to being concise about it yet. I can't define myself. Wait a minute - I'm angry, I'm funny and I'm trying.

I don't have a computer - I don't like to get into it that much 'cause it can screw with your head a little.

Trust arises from the mind's instinctive feeling after fixed realities, after the substance of every shadow, the base of all appearance, the everlasting amid change.

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.

Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.

Actually, it's a lot of fun to fight. You know, it's a hell of a hoot.

It's quite fun to fight them, you know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling.

It's weird when you're watching yourself in a film - you can't really detach yourself from the experiences you've had that day. You're never watching the film as a proper punter.