Quotes About Experience

one day you'll turn forty and you'll slowly realize you don't feel the eyes anymore, and the freedom is a relief, but you'll also sort of miss it, and when a truck driver whistles at you while you're crossing the road, you'll think, Really? For me?

She had not realized that grief was so physical.

She often experienced an uneasy sense that she was somehow faking a life for him, giving him a pretend childhood.

You could try as hard as possible to imagine someone else's tragedy – drowning in icy waters, living in a city split by a wall – but nothing truly hurt until it happened to you. Most of all, to your child.

It was like when you burn yourself on a hotplate and at first you think, Huh, that should have hurt more, and then it does hurt more, and then all of a sudden it hurts like hell.

And then she felt it. It was like when you burn yourself on a hot plate and at first you think, Huh, that should have hurt more, and then it does hurt more, and then all of a sudden it hurts like hell.

If Janie Crowley had lived, she would have traveled and dieted, danced and cooked, laughed and cried, watched a lot of television and tried her very best.

Vasazica asa se intampla, se gandea o parte din ea in timp ce se legana si se ruga. Asta e senzatia. Nu te schimbi. Nu exista nicio protectie speciala cand treci linia invizibila de la viata obisnuita la acea lume paralela unde se intampla tragedii. Se intampla exact asa. Nu devii altcineva. Nu primesti protectie speciala. Esti exact la fel. Totul in jurul tau inca miroase, arata, se simte exact la fel.

nothing truly hurts until it happens to you. Most of all, to your child.

The year Lyn turned twenty-two someone switched her life over to fast-forward and forgot to change it back again. That's how it felt.

She has that euphoric feeling you get at the airport after you've checked in your luggage. Nothing can stop your journey.

When the match is over it's like waking up from a beautiful dream.

The last time she had had anything close to an enemy, she was in primary school herself. It had never crossed her mind that sending your child to school would be like going back to school yourself.

For someone who didn't want children, Erika had a wealth of parenting expertise she felt obliged to share. You

Why were cabdrivers so insistent on educating their passengers?

Former greats didn't necessarily make great coaches.

Some elderly people look like they've always been old, but Connie looked like a young person who had aged a great deal.

I reflected, by experiencing disaster my generation did learn one terribly important thing -- the danger that lies in blind obedience.

I knew, even at eight, that the confusion of values thrust upon me by parents, teachers, other children, nannies, camp counselors, and others would only worsen as I grew up. The years would add complications and steer me into more and more impenetrable tangles of rights and wrongs, desirables and undesirables. I had already seen enough to know that.

That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.

Film is such a bizarre vehicle for acting. It's such a bizarre experience. I don't think you ever really get familiar with it. If you do get familiar with it, you're probably not that good anymore.

I think it's really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can, not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what you're going to do.

The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences. Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a sign of a good novel. Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.