James Eden Quotes

#1. The real troubles with living is that living is so banal. Everyone, after all, goes the same dark road - and the road has a trick of being the most dark, most treacherous, when it seems most bright - and it's true that nobody stays in the garden of Eden.

James Baldwin

#2. Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden," Jacques said. And then: "I wonder why.

James Baldwin

#3. Alchemy is glorious, gritty, and gruesome, forcing one to mature spiritually."

-from my weblog posted today on diavirginia

Dia Virginia Rigden

#4. Ah, but that's the glory of not being Eden. She can feel bad all she wants and we never have to feel it!"
"You, beautiful girl, are mean."
I smile and pull my sunglasses down. "You love me.

Kiersten White

#5. God had banished man from the Garden of Eden for daring to trespass upon the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
- But What if man learned to grow his own Tree? Where might it end?
- She didn't knew the answer. She knew only one thing for certain.
Someone had to stop Them

James Rollins

#6. And, after all, isn't that what life is all about, the ability to go around back and come up inside other people's heads to look out at the damned fool miracle and say: oh, so that's how you see it!? Well, now, I must remember that.

Ray Bradbury

#7. Putting 100 percent into your life, your work, or sport, doesn't give you the right to expect success at whatever you are trying to do - it just provides the opportunity.

Graham Lowe

#8. I have always been ready to fight anybody out there, anytime, anywhere. I will knock them all over. My talent speaks for itself.

James Toney

#9. Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

Jean De La Bruyere

#10. Cezanne produced precarious little worlds that almost, almost, almost lose their balance but somehow hold themselves together, creating tension, beauty and danger all at once.

Robert Krulwich

#11. I gasp, and I'm Eve in the Garden of Eden, and he's the serpent, and I cannot resist.

E.L. James

#12. Dad, youre so far off the mark I can't even ... Lincoln hasn't pressured me at all!" I grabbed my bag and heaved it onto my back. "WE'RE JUST FRIENDS! He's not even interested in me like that - and thanks to you," I shook my head at him in utter disbelief, "he never will now.

Jessica Shirvington