Quotes About Experience

I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.

I know what a full season is like in the big leagues. It's not going to be a surprise anymore.

When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope.

More than any other candidate, Mr. Trump embodies the evolving norms of communication that are being enabled and encouraged by technology and the matrix of connectivity that defines modern life: authenticity over authority, surprise over consistency, celebrity over experience.

There are very few things that surprise me.

I discovered, to my surprise, that writing for live television made me a faster writer.

This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.

When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.

I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It's funny, because when we found out we were pregnant, I said, 'Okay, let's experience that.' You just have to just go with it because it's rare.

It's always a surprise! This business is always an adventure.

Perhaps looking out through big baby eyes - if we could - would not be as revelatory experience as many imagine. We might see a world inhabited by objects and people, a world infused with causation, agency, and morality - a world that would surprise us not by its freshness but by its familiarity.

I think one of the things that was a huge surprise to everyone with 'Silence of the Lambs' was that that was an Oscar-winning horror movie. It struck such a nerve with audiences that it was a very particular, special experience.

I was never particularly academic, so it was no great surprise when I failed my 11-plus and consequently went to Wibsey Secondary Modern. I did all right in English, history and music, which were the subjects that most interested me.

With every project, there are things that surprise you with the meaning they take on as you start to use them.

My whole career's been kind of crazy, so you can't really surprise me.

You have actors you've worked with previously, and you have actors you haven't worked with that you've seen in things where you know they can work in these parts. And then there are actors who blow you away, who surprise you.

I had no idea who Elektra was. When the producers asked me before I booked the job, I had to tell them. It was a great surprise when I actually got the job.

It's never a surprise to me that a job that I'm doing reflects what I'm going through or what I'm thinking about.

I think for a horror experience to be really scary, something has to be a bit of a shock and a surprise. It's like something you've never experienced before.

I'm sure it won't surprise you to learn that I kept a diary - actually, quite a number of them over the years.

You can't surprise LeBron any more. He's such a smart player. His intellect has caught up with his athletic ability.

No gamer, whether you've played 'Duke 3D' or you haven't, can play 'Duke Forever' without having experiences that surprise them.