Quotes About Experience

if you stay in it for any length of time, like anyplace else, a cafe becomes a world.

She's the main character in her story, just like I'm the main character in mine.

I laughed simply because being this particular person in this particular world at this particular moment was cause for joy...

returned wedding gifts and penned endless notes of apology to the givers and to all our would-be-turned-would-not-be wedding guests, and if I say that I felt every word of those notes carve themselves into my skin like in that scary Dolores Umbridge detention scene in the fifth Harry Potter, I'm exaggerating, but only a little.

I lost track of where I ended and the city began, and after a few blocks, I'd have stretched to include the flower stand, the guy selling "designer" handbags on the corner, the skyscrapers' shining geometry, the scent of roasting nuts, the café with its bowl of green apples in the window, and the two gorgeous shopgirls on break, flamingolike and sucking on cigarettes outside their fancy boutique, eyes closed, rapturous, as though to smoke were very heaven.

I know there are people who claim to enjoy dating, just like I know there are people who claim to enjoy a cold shower in the morning.

They had never had anything but now they had nothing. Mary realized how different those two conditions were.

and feels, for the first time in her life, but not the last, the exquisite pain of love. In

This was what death would be, too, she imagined: a moment that would happen once and then recur each time it was encountered in memory,

She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches where most people never had the guts to go, where you got hurt. Where there was unimaginable beauty and pain ... They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang, each to each. Where there was danger and beauty and light. Only the now.

He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

Everything has combined to make my life in New York an amazing experience. I told my manager a few years ago that I wanted to move here and try acting in the theater.

Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read.

I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.

The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.

Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.

Leef is beter as skryf, beter as lees, beter as luister of enige ander tweedehandse ervaring.

In my experience, the unmarried women are the smartest.

Having an opinion suggests you've stopped trying new things. And I hope I will never lose my delight in trying new things.

Nobody can take another's place. Love doesn't work like that. One can love more than once, but each love is glorious in its own way.

One can forgive but one should never forget.

Sometimes remembering means to live a moment in the past again, and in that way survive the present.

It had been so brief a sojourn, not even a full century. He had been a guest in a mansion and he was not ungrateful. He was at once exhausted and refreshed. His stay was ended. Now he must gather up the shabby impedimenta of his mind and body and be on his way again.

Life is a difficult matter, and the more a simple man may learn of what greater men have thought, and taught, have spoken and have written, the better can he cope with any sort of life.