Quotes About Experience

If life is worth living then it's worth recording.

Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends?

In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

University is the best couple of years of your life. Nowhere else can you drink and chase as many birds.

I think anything that affects me in my personal life is going to help me be a better artist on stage.

One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.

Life is a continual flow of events, streaming in from the universal stream of consciousness in such a way that it exactly matches our own stream of consciousness.

Coen brothers movies are not always what life looks like but it's definitely what life feels like.

You show me someone who's led a perfect life and I'll show you a dullard.

Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? Yes, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret.

The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15

If you have never failed you have never lived.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

Observing life, living through it. As you experience life some events call upon you to suffer through them and that's what brings inspiration.

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

Every single thing you've been through in your life has had a purpose.

Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

You been to school, you say you are a lawyer, you walked out of a magazine. I've been a drifter and a low-life loser, you can learn a lot from me.

Risk is the salt and sugar of life.

I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.

Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell.

Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.

I have wandered many roads that I have never traveled; touched many things that my eyes have never seen. It is through stories that life is made, and through stories that life is saved.