Quotes About Experience

I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.

Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.

I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. It's not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience and know-how, I suppose.

What a poem can do is provide you this intimate eye that, for the length of a poem and hopefully a little bit after, can provide testimony or a point of view.

Because of the new regulations the regulators have put, they're testing these horses at contaminated levels and it's been a horrible experience.

I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.

It's true that driving an F1 car in testing is helpful, it's not that you learn everything.

I was great at testing products at 20,000 feet, but talking them up to buyers? No, not really.

Being a new mum at whatever age is testing and I think I've forgotten what it feels like.

Towards the end of the careers, senior cricketers may play only Tests. This means they'll be available for Ranji matches.

Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.

It is the gift of stories that most repays life among settled people.

The use of travelling," Doctor Johnson wrote Mrs. Thrale, "is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

Sometimes I think we only recollect what we have remembered before. What we recall is having recalled something already, so our strongest and truest memories come from a chain of often recalled things, and in that chain, over the years, events get adjusted and sorted around and stretched to fit the way we see things along the way.

The dreams of youth seem silly later

I wondered what a man I had encountered the day before on the plane en route to Chicago's O'Hare airport would have made of this. As he tried to push through a crowded aisle, he said loudly: "Life is never easy. And it's never pleasant." I couldn't let this go. I looked up at him from my seat and said, "I do hope life gives you cause to change that opinion. Otherwise you may find that opinion walking ahead of you, giving you more and more reasons to believe it.

I can't stand old people," Nicole said bluntly. "You'll be old one day," James said. "Nah," Nicole said. "Live fast, die young, that's my motto.

Partly James was jealous because he was a virgin, but mostly it just felt really weird being in a room with two people who'd spent the night having sex. It reminded him of the feeling you get when you pull a hair off your tongue and realise it's not one of your own.

His heartbeat was all over the place and there was a two-thousand-voice choir in his head screaming you just had sex!

love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them afloat with no ground under their feet.

My duties led me into the darkest cellars as well as the most beautiful cathedrals; often I found the cellar illuminated with a holy light, and the cathedral dark.

it does not belong exclusively to any one profession, or even to one tradition. Massage is a shared human experience.

War is to men as maternity is to women.