E.L. James Quotes

You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.

I was in chemical jail.

I was a functional addict.

Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.

In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.

Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.

I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

Dogs are obsessed with being happy.

It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.

God bless... God damn.

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.

The Old Man ain’t afraid of hell

Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.

Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.

You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?

I've had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation.

Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.

It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects.

If good people would but make goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many they would win to the good cause.

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easier to be a predator than it is to be prey.

Output always equals input.

Success requires strenuous effort, but it's a proven fact statistically that most people are as lazy as they dare to be and still get by.

And if you feel that everyone has rejected you and your ideas let me tell you this, you are most assuredly in good company.

Fear holds us back. Fear or love. That's all there is. We make all our decisions based on these two things.

I am everyone I have ever loved.

Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.

Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as [Vaclav] Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.

You know music and sound design can be very powerful with how you use it but also the absence of sound can say a lot as well.

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.

I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.

In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.

Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when you see what you paint!

It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.

Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time strewberries melts On the vine.

With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.

What, do they run already? Then I die happy.

As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very little.