Quotes About Experience

WITH LYLE, I SAW the real world of wine. Our trips weren't sponsored, and we paid our way equally, allowing us to experience regions on our terms.

When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.

You'll get younger not from what you read but from what you apply in your life. (192)

Beauty rubs off. You cannot stand face-to-face with a Rembrandt and walk away the same person.

Sometimes I think we need to tell our stories more than anyone needs to hear our stories. Maybe just so that anticipation or happiness can be reached for again. But other times it is almost as if the story itself wants repeating. So that the strand of hair caught in a kiss or the turn of a beautiful face isn't lost forever. So that, especially when it comes to beauty, we're not alone and left with the burden of remembering.

We are here. And then we are not here. For a little while, we are a story. ...layers of lived life...

If youth was not wasted, how could it be youth?

So it was that for two minutes we sang with all our hearts, feeling only for the past and turning our gaze from the future, swimmers doing the backstroke toward a waterfall.

we did not simply live in two cultures, as celebrants of the great American melting pot imagined. Displaced people also lived in two time zones, the here and the there, the present and the past, being as we were reluctant time travelers. But while science fiction imagined time travelers as moving forward or backward in time, this timepiece demonstrated a different chronology. The open secret of the clock, naked for all to see, was that we were only going in circles.

Every full bottle of alcohol has a message in it, a surprise that one will not discover until one drinks it. I

One could choose between innocence and experience, but one could not have both. At

If youth was not wasted, how could it be youth? Perhaps

She sold silk at the Ben Thanh market and possessed the eyes of an experienced negotiator, smooth and unreadable as the beads of an abacus.

I had to stop periodically to savor not only my soup but the marrow of my memories.

it. I was venturing into a wilderness many had explored before me, crossing the threshold separating those who had killed from those who had not.

while the northerners offered a utopia that could be found nowhere, the southerners had created a Fantasia that could be experienced everywhere

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE WROTE THAT "if something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases to hurt stays in the memory.

This is a book on war, memory, and identity. It proceeds from the idea that all wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.

Here's to you, Claude, I said, raising my glass to him. Congratulations. For what? he said, raising his own. Now you know what it feels like to be one of us. His laugh was short and bitter. I was thinking the exact same thing.

As with the Westerner, the Easterner was never so bored as he was when on his own shores.

I liked my scotch undiluted, like I liked my truth. Unfortunately, undiluted truth was as affordable as eighteen-year-old single malt scotch. What about those who have not learned the best of what was thought and said?

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Every full bottle of alcohol has a message in it, a surprise that one will not discover until one drinks it.

One must be grateful for one's education no matter how it arrives.