Quotes About Experience

I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones who'd spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it.

If we learned to drive as badly as we learn to make love, the roads would be nothing but wrecks. The erotic can be a window into the deepest core of feeling, but more and more doesn't get you there.

Some of the agonies that burn in the heart forever begin as brief as snapshots.

To experience love as claustrophobia. In such a twisted paradigm lies the sick legacy of a lifetime in the closet.

Si vivre dans les villes est une folie, au moins New York est-il une folie qui en vaut la peine.

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.

It's been a privilege to be here.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

J'avais vingt ans. Je ne laisserai personne dire que c'est le plus bel âge de la vie.

Senator, I started my life in a house without water or electricity. So I don't cede to you the high moral ground of not knowing what life is like in a ditch. to Senator Robert Byrd at a budget hearing

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.

I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!

When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat.

In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives.

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.

Time becomes human time to the extant that it is organized after the manner of a narrative.

Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's like a jar of jalapeños: You never know what's going to burn your ass.

Sandy was ready for a bit of excitement in her life too. She was tired of being treated like she was so immature, like she didn't know anything about boys or sex or anything. While it was true that she didn't have any experience, she was more than ready to learn. She was ready to say goodbye to Sandra Dee. At least, she thought she was.

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

Anybody can be anybody, he told himself as he eased his body down onto Devin's, the blunt pain of a beautiful pleasure wedging him open.

This distinction between form and experience is not pedantic, but fundamental: a form can express the Transcendent, an experience cannot. A form can express the common ground in which all things share. An experience can only express one man's reaction to that common ground.

El estilo trascendental no es una experiencia, sino una forma. El estilo trascendental no pretende hacer que el espectador comparta las lágrimas de Hirayama; lo que intenta es purgar esas lágrimas e integrarlas en una forma más extensa.

I am an old man. I am entitled, am I not, to say what I think?—and of course to stray from the point.