Quotes About Experience

I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases...

Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.

I'm growing older, but not up.

Pack your bags, we're going on a guilt trip!

Some of its magic, some its tragic, but I've had a good life along the way.

Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.

I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'

It's the process of making-do, of the life I've lived between breakdowns and break-ups, that has made life worth living. I could not bear a life with everything perfect.

I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.

It's what you learn after you know it all that's important.

Fiction, when it's done right, does in the daylight what dreams do at night: we leave the confines of our own experiences and go to common ground, where for a time we are not alone Where we don't have to ask how it feels, because we feel it for ourselves." 

Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course, between the fictional world and the real one, in which she had to prepare dinners and so on. Still, for us, the fictional world was an extension of the real, and in no way a substitute for it, or refuge from it. Any more than sleeping is a substitute for waking." (Jincy Willett)

Fiction, when it's done right, does in the daylight what dreams do at night: we leave the confines of our own experiences and go to common ground, where for a time we are not alone.

T)here are worse things than falling on your face right out of college...Like instant, unearned success. Like getting your first novel accepted by the first publisher you send it to. Like getting your first rejection slip at the age of thirty-five.

We made too many wrong mistakes.—Yogi Berra

You know you're not in your twenties anymore when you flee the action instead of wanting to be in the middle of it.

Orang awam, menurut pengalaman Strike, akan terpaku pada motif, sementara kaum professional akan menempatkan kesempatan pada urutan pertama

mavourneen. They figured most of it out long ago.

They say men can never experience the pain of childbirth. They can... if you hit them in the goolies with a cricket bat for fourteen hours.

We threw ourselves at that wild river every day and most days it tossed us all harmlessly skyward like well-loved children. After a while that does something to you.

all I could think was how strange it was that it was a messed-up child who barely knew herself who actually had so much to teach me about the business of living. I was suddenly glad of his solidity in a world where it was so easy to fall. It is important not to turn the dead into saints. Nobody can walk in the shadow of a saint. You live. And you throw yourself into everything and try not to think about the bruises.

any form of expression that ceases to be an experience and becomes an art form loses its glowing divinity"