Quotes About Experience

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

The only people who can truly know your story are the ones who helped you write it.

I love my failures because they taught me more than my teachers ever could...

History is philosophy teaching by example.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

Experience has two things to teach: the first is that we must correct a great deal; the second, that we must not correct too much

Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.

I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bi...ed from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Hunger is not only the best cook, but also the best physician.

If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

Never eat Chinese food in Oklahoma.

During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is.

If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.