Quotes About Experience

A lot of why I climb is for the friendship, the loyalty and trust, the shared experience of being in that moment.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look for someplace to get a sandwich.

An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

I'm too drunk to taste this chicken

You don't know anything about pain until you've seen your own baby drowned in a tub... and you definitely don't know anything about how to wash a baby.

Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause ? you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!

Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

The older I get, the faster I was.

I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.

Champagne's funny stuff. I'm used to whiskey. Whiskey is a slap on the back, and champagne's a heavy mist before my eyes.

I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.

I wish I had a funny story.

You know your girlfriend is too young when she'll do everything in bed but go upside down because it's too scary.

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

My grandfather's a little forgetful, but he likes to give me advice. One day, he took me aside and left me there.

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.

Just a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension.

The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.