Eloisa James Quotes
Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.
Quotes to Explore
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
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My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
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Our blight is ideologies - they are the long-expected Antichrist!
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I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I? When love becomes vast love becomes wordless. And when memory is overladen it seeks the silent deep.
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Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.
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A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. (Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the first indication of the scale that we need in the theory of probability.) (4.464)
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'Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present...This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.'
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Thinking of the sun causes quick beating of my heart - snowy weather comes on the wind lightly drifting.
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I'd love to do something like 'A Canterbury Tale,' because I love the English language.
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None has begun to think how divine he himself is and how certain the future is.
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Worry can pull a person’s face into a mask of anxious lines, and he could tell she’d had some of that, but even worried folks could laugh.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.
