Quotes About Experience

I've had four amazing men in my life, very strong, powerful, wonderful men. I certainly will have a relationship with someone but I don't think I will get married again.

Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.

Even after forty years of directing, shooting and editing films, when I collaborate with a male partner, people still perceive the man as the primary filmmaker.

For some reason, I find that in the course of my career I've worked with more women than most men have.

It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such.

It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.

A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

Having a strong father, I wanted an older man.

One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.

Man has survived and prospered for more than 150,000 years on this planet without the help of use-by dates.

Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads.

Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals.

He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.

All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak.

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

I remember Paul [Dano] had said at one point that when he finished this film [Swiss Army Man] was the strongest he'd ever been just from lugging me around for [several] weeks.

I think it's kind of great, to be honest. I'll never do another film [like Swiss Army Man] where I get to talk about those things, so I might as well enjoy it while I can.

I don't think anyone who has ever counted drinking amongst their hobbies has never kissed a man.

In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions.

You are getting too old for this. A man is as old as he feels, woman! And how old do you feel? About ninety.

Once at the White House I was asked to conduct the Drum and Bugle Corp. The man just handed me the baton and I finished the song. It was great. I got to keep the baton.

Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.

A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.

Man worships because God lays His hand to the dust of our experience, and man miraculously becomes a living soul - and knows it and wants to worship.