Quotes About Experience

The right question is: where is the meaning in life? Meaning is a man-made concept. It's something we infer from those experiences that are self-evidently good, and stem from a feeling of joy and wonder. Meaning is not something that occurs in the future. It exists in the here and now, within the fact that our lives are finite. F

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.

Coffee is a drink for grownups. No kid ever likes coffee. It's psychoactive. Coffee is the drug of memory.

And how did you find the East?' 'It's a shit-hole. But it's our shit-hole.

The prices are vertiginous. Carlinhos and Wagner take a booth and they talk and dip their wafers of exquisite beef into the sauces but most of the time they keep companionable silence together, as close men do, and find they have communicated everything. Run

Place becomes psyche, story becomes history.

The coffee doesn't taste the way it smells. For that Adriana is thankful. If it did, humans would never do anything other than drink it. Smell is the sense of memory. Each coffee would recall countless memories, boundless memories. Coffee as the drug of remembering.

In the dying moments of the Happening, each knew themselves to have been touched by something quite precious and rare and extraordinary. Something that had been taken from them years and years before. Something that some of them had never known they could experience.

If you want to write, you must write experience. What it is to be that thing. There is everything in a moment.

All written art is an attempt to communicate what it is to feel.

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

He studied Arch Gowrie now. The man was big and fiftyish and probably attractive to women in that way older men could be.

He wasn't management, but that didn't mean he wasn't skilled. Quite the opposite, in Rebus's experience.

Fox picked up the cup and blew across its surface. He knew it was going to be the cheapest brand of powdered instant; knew the cup wasn't as clean as it could be. But he would remember the smell and the taste and the pattern on the saucer for the rest of his life.

His eyes beheld beauty not in reality but in the printed word. Standing in the waiting-room, he realized that in his life he had accepted secondary experience -- the experience of reading someone else's thoughts -- over real life.

I'm not saying it's true. I'm just saying it happened.

It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences.

If you spend a day driving, you travel a long way and see nothing. If you spend a day walking, you travel a short distance but, in compensation, you see every small detail along the way. The efficiency of the bicycle gives you the best of both modes. On a bike, you can travel a long way and see a huge amount. The cyclist experiences both breadth and depth.

Who lives sees, but who travels sees more.

Traveling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.