Quotes About Experience

When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the wrestling room, and it worked, since the first time I played badminton was like the first time I tasted sushi or heard the Beatles or read Wordsworth. This was a sport? This counted for gym requirements?

The radio tape puts you right back in the original time and place when you first heard the songs. You are there, my friend.

Nothing connects to the moment like music.

Renee used to say real life was a bad country song, except bad country songs were believable and real life isn't.

Something I really enjoy about older couples is that they really have given up on getting everything right. They don't sweat the imperfections.

Listening to it now is like a personally guided tour through my past.

You lose a certain kind of innocence when you experience this type of kindness. You lose your right to be a jaded cynic. You can no longer go back through the looking glass and pretend not to know what you know about kindness. It's a defeat, in a way.

sometimes you can feel like you're experiencing some of the most honest, most intimate moments of your life, while butchering a Hall & Oates song at 2 a.m. in a room full of strangers.

And sometimes I think, man, all the people I get to hear this song with, we're going to miss each other when we die. When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.

If she breaks my heart, no matter what hell she puts me through, I can say it was worth it, just because of right now.

but somehow, it's part of why Stevie Nicks means so much to us. It's why we hear our own broken forevers in this music, why we hear our own emotional avalanches in her songs. When she rides the landslide, she rides it all the way down, and she takes us down with her.

It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.

Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward.

Accepting a cup of tea when you're in a hurry, resulting in hundreds of tiny, excruciatingly painful, rapid-fire sips.

Huh. Veronica Mars, speechless. I'll have to write this one in my feelings journal.

Snap judgments? I'd gotten over those about the time I was toilet trained. Swore off diapers and faith in the human experience all in one week.

Van Morrison's Astral Weeks

The magical switch between the hawk and the hurricane reflects the very British experience of living in the past simultaneously with the present. Pentangle's music, in its swirling vortex of referents, the galliard shading into the raga, the ballad transmuting into the acid jam, unwittingly reflects these contested territories.

I read a few of those books on how to write a screenplay, but, just like I told you with the school thing, once again, most of those books are written by someone who's never written a good script. You look at the writer's credits and they've written one episode of The Golden Girls or something. People who write good scripts, write scripts. They don't write books about writing scripts.

the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.

Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.

In the 1940s women were changing from home to hospital where they gave birth alone and thus birth became a mystery to the next generation.

The show is worth seeing-if it is worth

horseback for twenty days-and, incidentally,