Quotes About Experience

I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.

Someone wants to do a movie of my life now and he's writing a script, and I said to him, "What the hell could you do? I've never been arrested, I haven't taken drugs, I've had the same wife for 54 years -- where's anything of interest to people?"

I'm very proud of being a hack. It's why I've lived as long as I have, I think.

The "problem" is that Comic-Con is so damned successful. People who are there seem to have a wonderful time. The very size of it makes it exciting. Wherever you look, there's something exciting. The attendees are always looking around for a familiar face. It's either 'There's a movie star!' Or, 'There's a TV star!' Or, 'There's the guy who drew the Green Lantern!' It means so much to the fans. It makes them feel like they're where it's happening. It's like Woodstock.

The only time I go on the set is when I have a cameo to do in the picture. I go to the set and I do my little cameo and I meet all the people. It's a great way to spend the day. And then I go back to my own world.

I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.

Oh, love. Love is best of all. There is no such total element, not even pain. Who has ever loved, knows this. I need not say more.

No real ghosts, Ted told himself. Memories were the only ghosts adults had: Memories and regrets.

There is no such thing as a natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relives you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season

Years ago I had a 1-iron I could hit 260 yards through a doorway. Now I can hit it through the keyhole

People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.

My Soul lives many lives. Each life a thought, each thought a life. I am but Thought.

He who hasn't tasted bitter things hasn't earned sweet things.

I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.

Is there a single person on whom I can press belief? No sir. All I can do is say, Here's how it went. Here's what I saw. I've been there and am going back. Make of it what you will.

Birthing takes nine months, and dying takes you all the rest of your life.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30

Philosophy, like science, consists of theories or insights arrived at as a result of systemic reflection or reasoning in regard to the data of experience. It involves, therefore, the analysis of experience and the synthesis of the results of analysis into a comprehensive or unitary conception. Philosophy seeks a totality and harmony of reasoned insight into the nature and meaning of all the principal aspects of reality.

I feel more mature than most people my age.

All my life I had been living. How to imagine any other state?

Love ain't got no business happenin' to the young. Only the old be wise enough to treat it right.

Nobody's sex life is such that every experience is a ten. You may have to be satisfied with regular eights or sixes and even an occasional three.