Quotes About Experience

You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate.

When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts.

The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind.

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.

In the realist you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.

At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.

I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are.

Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.

The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have.

A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten.

We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's.

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.

A film is not a story told with pictures, it's a succession of experiences.

Ideas gathered from reading will always be bookish ideas. Go to the persons and objects directly. Have a painter's eye.

Art is not in the mind. Art is in the eye, in the ear, in the memory of our senses. Images, dreams.

I'd rather people feel a film before understanding it.

When first we met, we did not guess, That love would prove so hard a master...

There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.

The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did.

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

Therefore I summon ageTo grant youth's heritage.

You never know what life means till you die:Even throughout life, 'tis death that makes life live,Gives it whatever the significance.

The C Major of this life.

What's a man's age He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.