Quotes About Experience

Custei a aprender que para conhecer uma cidade, melhor que percorrê-la em ônibus de dois andares é se fechar num aposento dentro dela. Não é fácil, e eu sabia que entrar em Budapeste não seria fácil.

Don't worry, I know what I'm doing — I saw this on Pinterest.

There is no greater adventure than a magical journey through last night's drunk texts.

If soup isn't hot enough to make a grown man wince, it's undrinkable.

You can tell how long a couple has been married by whether they are on their first, second, or third bottle of Tabasco.

If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country.

You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.

The first sip of tea is always the best... you cringe as it burns the back of your throat, knowing you just had the hottest carpe-diem portion.

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.

It's difficult to decide whether growing pains are something teenagers have — or are.

...inwardly, we're much older than other girls our age. Even though I'm only fourteen... I feel I'm more of a person than a child...

A trembling in the bones carries often a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.

The past is not a package one can lay away.

But a queer thing is — this is personal — however painful a thing has been when I look back it is no longer painful, or no more painful than music is. In fact it is just that.

Hindsight — a.k.a. I was a fool, such a fool!

My own love of books begins long before I start to read them. First of all, I am an incurable book-sniffer; when I open a new book I at once savour its scent, and I have had some odd looks from bookshop assistants in consequence...

At a certain age some people's minds close up. Then they live on their intellectual fat.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation and not by calendars, and each moment is a day and the race a life.

Time gives good advice. (El tiempo da buen consejo.)

It has been said that in human life there are moments worth ages...

The only way to get back to them is to go somewhere else; and that is the real object of travel and the real pleasure of holidays. Do you suppose that I go to France in order to see France? Do you suppose that I go to Germany in order to see Germany? I shall enjoy them both; but it is not them that I am seeking... The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

You need special shoes for hiking — and a bit of a special soul as well.

The sea was an abstract painting: a band of azure sky above a swatch of indigo water above a ribbon of wet brown sand above a smear of hazel beach... It seemed like the kind of place you might encounter in dreams: too raw and wild to be real, yet somehow familiar at the same time, an ancient impression belonging to my species, imprinted in my genetic code, a knowledge deeper than memory.

Mr. Tacker, who from his great experience in the performance of funerals, would have made an excellent pantomime actor, winked at Mrs. Gamp without at all disturbing the gravity of his countenance...