Quotes About Experience

He laughed. "You must remember that we are also valuable not only in action but because we are more than the sum of our memories.

These dreams were so real they left me shaken and unsure of which world I was in.

Hey, I try and have an open container with me no matter what state I'm in." She

The steam rolled out as I opened the container and prepared to eat Dorothy's famous Brookville, Kansas, recipe chicken. It was a religious experience.

no man has any sense till age thirty-five and damn few afterwards . . .

While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who's out there just for the experience.

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

You have never ridden a ship until you have ridden an LST in the North Atlantic in the month of February.

The truth for a novelist isn;t the same as the facts . . . When a writer is successful in using a story taken from experience, it is not told exactly the way it happened, but in the way that reveals, through all one's beliefs, hopes, and fear, how the event should have happened.

It was like being trapped forever in the present tense of the first line of a first reader.

Subí a mi habitación y me serví un whisky. Gran error: al primer trago me entraron arcadas. Me estaba haciendo viejo para aquellos trotes.

Western theology invariably asks the question: Are miracles possible? This of course addresses the Enlightenment problem of a closed universe. In much of Asia that is a non-question because the miraculous is assumed and fairly regularly experienced.—Hwa Yung

If the early Christian accounts of dramatic signs make these works seem foreign and foreboding to segments of modern Western academia,[85] they are nevertheless welcome in many of the dynamic churches of Africa, Latin America, and Asia, which believe that they share their experiences.

What I'm feeling, I think, is joy. And it's been some time since I've felt that blinkered rush of happiness. This might be one of those rare events that lasts, one that'll be remembered and recalled as months and years wind and ravel. One of those sweet, significant moments that leaves a footprint in your mind.

I forgot what it felt like to be young

Everyone ages. Everyone can learn a trade and pay taxes and have a family. But that's not growin up. It's about how you act when your shit gets shaken up, it's about how much you see around you. That's what makes a man.

All the things that have happened to you, all them years. Where you've been and who you've been with. All the different people I've met. I always seem to get on with them. If I see people I always talk to people. That's just what I do.

London as cell, jail, and favor. London meant "not living in England while living in England,

At the bottom of the poster was the famous Samuel Johnson quote I've now heard repeated, mangled, and paraphrased many times: "When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

We experience a discomfort that may be foreign to others, but that pain opens up a world of beauty. Wouldn't you think?

As Picasso said with his typical oxymoronic wit, "It takes a very long time to become young.

I want to know, have you ever seen rain comin down on a sunny day?

Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.