Quotes About Experience

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

It's really a drag to sit around when you're old, and think, 'Ah, gee, I never went to France.' Go to France. Life is very short; you've got to pack it all in there.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Life is full of surprises, but the biggest one of all is learning what it takes to handle them.

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.

Gather the roses of life today.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.

Life just happens. It's what you're believing about life that makes you suffer.

It is funny you know, you spend 12 years of your life learning about things and about life, but they never really tell you how hard life really is.

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

Every experience I've had in my life is a resource in my body.

Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !

I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.

What is the worth of anything we do? The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life

I've dealt with politicians my entire life. You never make a bad deal with a politician. They're so easy.

My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

A song marks an occasion in my life and that's how I live my life, by songs.