Escape From Eden Quotes & Sayings

Waiters and waitresses are becoming nicer and much more caring. I used to pay my check, they would say "Thank you." That's now escalated into "You care care of yourself, now." The other day I paid my check and the waiter said, "Don't put off that mammogram." — Rita Rudner

I think being a singer-songwriter ... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves. — Gabrielle Aplin

I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate. — John Steinbeck

The free world has need that its foreign policies should fairly measure the realities of the world in which we live. There are certain principles to which we hold: the sanctity of treaties, good faith between nations, the interdependence of peoples from which no country, however powerful, can altogether escape. — Anthony Eden

English Passengers, a first novel by Matthew Kneale, relates what follows when a group of Englishmen arrive in mid-nineteenth-century Tasmania with different purposes: to find the Garden of Eden, to prove the natives are less intelligent than the British, and to escape from British law. Kneale also describes the tragic life of a young Aboriginal whose experiences are shaped by the arrival of the British. — Nancy Pearl

I'm not trying to twist people's heads around. I'm not trying to say, "Believe in me." — Ozzy Osbourne

All these years later, people still wonder about how Bruce died. I prefer to remember how he lived. — Linda Lee Cadwell

He was paving hell with energy - buying an indulgence, forgiveness for sin. — Sylvain Reynard

We're hiding in a tree with people chasing us. Do you really think this is an appropriate time to make suggestive comments? — Elisa Nader

Serendipity always rewards the prepared. — Katori Hall