Quotes About Experience

She and Torres have history all over the place. Stuck together in the data like tissues on a lap dance cabin floor.

And he remembered then where he was, remembered how he'd come to be there, the years it had taken, and last of all he remembered he was old.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. CLAUDE BERNARD

We tend to think of the rational as a higher order, but it is the emotional that makes our lives. One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. MERLE SHAIN

Writing is a way not only to metabolize life but to alchemize it as well. It is a way to transform what happens to us in our own experience. It is a way to move from passive to active. We may still be the victims of circumstance, but by our understanding those circumstances we place events within the ongoing context of our own life, that is, the life we own.

There are sounds to seasons.   There are sounds to places, and there are sounds to every time in one's life. ALISON WYRLEY BIRCH

Today, I deliberately practice open-mindedness. I cultivate a willingness to experience subtle realms.

La pintura es un intento de asumir la vida. Existen tantas soluciones como seres humanos». GEORGE TOOKER

It's easy to get the feeling that you know the language just because when you order a beer they don't bring you oysters. (Paul Child)

operational proof...it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works.

Well, all I know is this—nothing you ever learn is really wasted, and will sometime be used.

If variety is the spice of life, then my life must be one of the spiciest you ever heard of. A curry of a life. -Paul Child

It was fun, although we felt like pawns, or prawns, in the maelstrom.

The Parisian grocers insisted that I interact with them personally: if I wasn't willing to take the time to get to know them and their wares, then I would not go home with the freshest legumes or cuts of meat in my basket. They certainly made me work for my supper-- but, oh, what suppers!

I was in pure, flavorful heaven at the Cordon Bleu.

In fact, I didn't like traveling first class at all. Yes, it was nice to have a bathroom in a hotel and fine service at breakfast...but none of it seemed foreign enough for me. It was all so pleasantly bland that I felt as if I were back on the SS America. I don't like it when everyone speaks perfect English; I'd much rather struggle with my phrasebook.

Of course, an old wine is like an old lady, and traveling can disturb her.

You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made," he said. "Even after you eat it, it stays with you—always." I

had been a year earlier. Looking back, it had been a year of growth. Paul's personality had enlarged, he'd gained further wisdom, if not salary

You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made," he said. "Even after you eat it, it stays with you—always.

And the great lesson embedded in the book is that no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing. This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook—try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!

One evening, we stopped at a charming Tudor inn, where we were served boiled chicken, with little feathers sticking out of the skin, partially covered with a typical English white sauce. Aha! At last I would try the infamous sauce that the French were so chauvinistic about. The sauce was composed of flour and water (not even chicken bouillon) and hardly any salt. It was truly horrible to eat, but a wonderful cultural experience.

You don't spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.

Some might have referred to Vince, Buck and Calvin as ordinary fellows or salt of the earth. Such terms are merely code for men who've led lives in which boyhood dreams become a luxury, a whim, before boyhood even comes to an end.