Quotes About Experience

I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad.

What a pity that most young people instead of seeing one animal in nature--which is worth a hundred in any Zoo--must derive their knowledge of God's creatures from their appearance in prisons. ... How do we manage to think that we know all about an animal by gazing at him penned in a cage?

Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized.

I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.

When my dad toured in '91, I think my first gig properly was the Tokyo Dome 50 000 people indoors. That was pretty scary. I was 12, or 13.

I was recording stuff with my dad when I was like five, six years old. I played with him on tour. I'd gone with him to Japan in '91, played some gigs, did a couple shows at the Albert Hall.

People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

tasting a piece of bread that someone bought is like looking at that person, but tasting a piece of bread that they baked is like looking out of their eyes.

Looking at things is never time wasted. If your children want to stand and stare, let them. When I was marvelling at the beauty of a painting or enjoying a great view it did not occur to me that the experience, however intense, would be of value many years later. But there it has remained, tucked away in hidden bits of my mind and now it comes, shouldering aside even the most passionate love affairs.

They brought home to me the central reason why books have meant so much to me. It is not because of my pleasure in the art of writing, though that has been very great. It is because they have taken me so far beyond the narrow limits of my own experience and have so greatly enlarged my sense of the complexity of life: of its consuming darkness, and also – thank God – of the light which continues to struggle through.

Enacting love was a critical aspect of experiencing love. Devotion and ethics intertwined.

There is no one experience of gratitude; rather, it is a complex and episodic thing, and one that is deeply personal.

Thus Christianity becomes a story of accumulated human experience of God that reveals a certain kind of wisdom in the world: To love God and love one's neighbor constitutes the good life. Love is, as the apostle Paul wrote, the greatest of all things. Without love we are, as the good apostle said flatly, "nothing" (1 Cor. 13). Without love, Christianity is either a pretty bad joke or a twisted political agenda.

I had one last try. "Does it bother you that I'm not a virgin?" He hesitated a moment before answering. "Well, no," he said slowly, "so long as it doesna bother you that I am." He grinned at my drop-jawed expression, and backed toward the door. "Reckon one of us should know what they're doing," he said. The door closed softly behind him; clearly the courtship was over.

Where did you learn to kiss like that?" I said, a little breathless. He grinned and pulled me close again. "I said I was a virgin, not a monk," he said, kissing me again. "If I find I need guidance, I'll ask.

You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

It's not about the dress you wear, but it's about the life you lead in the dress.

A new dress doesn't get you anywhere. It's the life you're living in the dress.

I think when you're young you should be a lot with yourself and your sufferings. Then one day you get out where the sun shines and the rain rains and the snow snows, and it all comes together.

The first thing to do is arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.