Quotes About Experience

Guy knows all about women he don't know nothing about a woman.

I'm gonna try to learn. Gonna learn why folks walk in the grass, gonna hear 'em talk, gonna hear 'em sing. Gonna listen to kids eatin' mush. Gonna hear husban' an' wife a-poundin' the mattress in the night. Gonna eat with 'em an' learn. Gonna lay in the grass, open an' honest with anybody that'll have me. Gonna cuss an' swear an' hear the poetry of folks talkin'. All that's holy, all that's what I didn't understan'. All them things is good things.

When I was a kid my ol' man give me a haltered heifer an' says take her down an git her serviced. An' the fella says, I done it, an' ever' time since then when I hear a business man talkin' about service, I wonder who's gettin' screwed.

When the first innocence goes, you can't stop—unless you're a hypocrite or a fool.

Things that happen are of no importance. But from everything that happens, there is a lesson to be learned.

Aron's training in worldliness was gained from a young man of no experience, which gave him the ability for generalization only the inexperienced can have.

It is good to know what you are doing. The man with his pickled fish has set down one truth and has recorded in his experience many lies. The fish is not that color, that texture, that dead, nor does he smell that way.

There are times that one treasures for all one's life, and such times are burned clearly and sharply on the material of total recall. I felt very fortunate that morning.

Strange things happened to them . . . some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that faith is refired forever.

When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to. But when you grow up you take your place and you're your own size and shape. Things go out of you to others and come in from other people. It's worse, but it's much better too.

I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody

They got to live before they can afford to die.

How's that for the grapes?

When you been in stir a little while, you can smell a question comin' from hell to breakfast.

the technique must be learned the way I learned it, by failures

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Tom bruised himself on the world and licked his cuts.

Coming out of sleep, I had the advantage of two worlds, the layered firmament of dream and the temporal fixtures of the mind awake. I stretched luxuriously—a good and tingling sensation. It's as though the skin has shrunk in the night and one must push it out to daytime size by bulging the muscles, and there's an a itching pleasure in it.

War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men.

Na jaren van zwoegen merken we dat we geen reis maken, maar dat de reis on maakt. Reisleiders, dienstregelingen, reserveringen, star en onvermijdelijk, doen hun uiterste best om de persoonlijkheid van de reis te slopen.

It was his first experience with this kind of love and it nearly killed him.

I've lived in a good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

The boys were stunned by the size and grandeur of the West End after their background in a one-room country school. The opulence of having a teacher for each grade made a deep impression on them. It seemed wasteful. But as is true of all humans, they were stunned for one day, admiring on the second, and on the third day could not remember very clearly ever having gone to any other school.

Ei mikään vedä vertoja oluen ensimmäiselle puraisulle.