Quotes About Experience

every time I've held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns

My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

I could not possibly be in a relationship now for more than six days. When I was younger, I might have said six months, although I think the longest relationship I was ever in was three years.

Having your own store is one of the most immediate ways to connect with the customer, to really get to know her and develop a more intimate relationship.

I honestly think being single's great. Being in a relationship's great. It's all about the timing.

This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.

I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.

There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage.

I imagine that all Americans have a unique relationship in their individual present to their collective past and how that relationship might shape their identities and experiences.

On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.

It's hard for young people to understand when you tell them how great relationships are.

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

One of my favorite things is when I'm listening to a song and I find my own meaning in it that I can relate to and I can create my own relationship and bond with the song.

When it comes to 'Glee,' I feel like I've been in a relationship, and now I can mingle a bit.

I don't really read children's books or deal with children's books, so I don't have any relationship with them other than my own.

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.

You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.

In a way, everybody is wounded from the wound of the real. This phenomenon is similar to madness. The mad person is wounded by his or her distorted relationship to the real.

I remember Tetro was a big deal to me at that time. It was going from zero to one: Never having been in a movie, a person who had no relationship to any of that, and that was my first movie.

It feels like forever, like he's lived through the same things as me, like our lives ran parallel for years until last week, when they finally intersected and fused.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!