Quotes About Experience

He raised one eyebrow. "Now I have made you angry with me. I gave you credit for more sense. It is true that she is prettier than you, and nobody in his right mind would deny it. Mere prettiness, however, is not always sufficient to attract a man of sense and experience. What you have, and what Miss Yarcombe lacks and will probably always lack, is character. A doll may be pretty. A woman should be something more.

Ya?lanarak de?il ya?ayarak tecrübe kazan?l?r; zaman insanlar? de?il, armutlar? olgunla?t?r?r

Büyük bir hastal?k geçirmeyenler, her?eyi anlad?klar?n? iddia edemezler.

Gücenmeyiniz, dedi, ?iirlerinize te?ekkür ederim. Sizin her geli?iniz benim için büyük teselli. Fakat hep birbirinize benziyorsunuz. Bir zevkli tecrübe, sonra elveda. Nevzat da öyle yapt?. Bir son vapur bahanesi kâfi.

Ya?amak, yaralamak ve yaralanmakt?r; ama insanca.

Ah minel-a?k vel-halatihi diyor Arap. Ya?am??lar, ya?am??lar, hepsini biliyorlar. A?k?n halleri say?s?z. Fakat en büyük ?st?rap, galiba, inanmak zorlu?unda toplan?yor. Derece ?üphesi.

If i had it all to do again there would be more bodies.

When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.

Agatha was a connoisseur of headaches, and was relieved at the transitory nature of this one.

In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.

Bill Russell, the Boston Celtics great who won more championship rings as a player than anyone else (eleven), revealed in his memoir, Second Wind, that he sometimes secretly rooted for the opposing team during big games because if they were doing well, it meant he would have a more heightened experience.

I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel.

The soldier talks, guardedly, as some soldiers do,

Sometimes,' Mr Unsworth said, 'one wants to be influenced by places. Sometimes not.

Never promote someone who hasn't made some bad mistakes, because if you do, you are promoting someone who has never done anything.

We need to remain alert to what happens to the body when it is mediatised. Too often, the mediatised body is an anaesthetised body. I would be the last person to argue that the body signifies at some basic level that precedes or transcends its cultural inscriptions. Nevertheless, there is an ethical imperative not to conflate the body with its representations and mediations, but to remember that there is an actual body there somewhere, experiencing the consequences of what is being done to it.

Before you leave here, Sir, you're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

I saw their living mouths moving in conversation and their dead mouths grinning the taut-drawn grins of corpses. Their living eyes I saw, and their dead eyes still-staring. Had it not been for the fear that I was going crazy, I would have found it an interesting experience, a trip such as no drug could possibly produce. Asleep and dreaming, I saw dead men living; awake, I saw living men dead.

I had only one hard-and-fast rule: avoid interstates. They are predictable and boring, and their uniformity somehow erases changes in landscape; you can drive six hundred miles, from forests into desert, and feel that you haven't gone anywhere. In a sense, you haven't. You have no idea about the lives of the people in the towns and cities you've bypassed at seventy miles an hour. *

As the citizens of a democracy, the noisy patriots and protestors had a right to their opinions about Vietnam but not, it seemed to me, to the smug righteousness with which they voiced them, because they hadn't been there.

We left Vietnam peculiar creatures, with young shoulders that bore rather old heads.

It's like nothing else; you can't explain its intensity in words. To have that power over life—nothing is more sexually exciting; it's the ultimate, something very few people experience.

With books he could leave his cell and go wherever the story went.

People not used to the world … are unskillful enough to show what they have sense enough not to tell.