Quotes About Experiences

The experiences people have in a large hotel do not constitute entire human destinies, full and completed. They are fragments merely, scraps, pieces. The people behind its doors may be unimportant or remarkable individuals. People on the way up or people on the way down the ladder of life. Prosperity and disaster may be separated by no more than the thickness of a wall.

Was im großen Hotel erlebt wird, das sind keine runden, vollen, abgeschlossenen Schicksale. Es sind nur Bruchstücke, Fetzen, Teile; hinter den Türen wohnen Menschen, gleichgültige oder merkwürdige, Menschen im Aufstieg, Menschen im Niedergang; Glückseligkeiten und Katastrophen wohnen Wand an Wand. Die Drehtür dreht sich, und was zwischen Ankunft und Abreise erlebt wird, das ist nichts Ganzes" (S. 309)

The blues have always had some of the best times, best feelings I've ever had.

One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.

I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.

Cars are like rolling diaries, metal and plastic and paint tableaux of the last ten years of their drivers' lives ... every dent, every drooping slice of chrome, has a story behind it.

there are no haunted houses...only haunted people

Spirits have more possibilities for nearly everything than do bodies—for example, more pleasures and pains, and more subtle and profound pleasures and pains, than bodies.

Too often people fear their mortality, rather than feeling reassurance about the opportunities they have during their remaining lifespan. They don't fill their remaining time with experiences and human connections, because they're dwelling on the portion that's already spent.

Religion refers to concepts, rituals, experiences, and institutions that humans construct based upon their belief in the supernatural, otherworldly, or spiritual. For

I'm a great believer in providing children with experiences that are not for them but can be overheard.

And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into.

It's good to have each other, but you also need to have your own people, your own experiences.

If I didn't have a boy, at least I had plenty of stories about boys. And honestly? Some of the stories were better than the boys themselves.

When a person comes from a family or a group that has been marginalized, when she is one of the subalterns, the silence such a person confronts about herself and her experiences within the greater culture is a political condition. In such cases the very act of writing about herself and her experiences becomes a political act.

When I was seven years old, my family moved to North Carolina. When he was seven years old, Hugh's family moved to the Congo. We had a collie and a house cat. They had a monkey and two horses named Charlie Brown and Satan. I threw stones at stop signs. Hugh threw stones at crocodiles. The verbs are the same, but he definitely wins the prize when it comes to nouns and objects.

When he had gotten rid of his exuberance he sat down at once to write to his brother Hal about it, and also his forest-ranger friend, Dick Leslie, with whom he had spent an adventurous time the last summer.

I've had some great times with actresses, but that's in a movie.

I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.

I've got stories on every one of my albums, big ones.

I could go on all night about my wonderful experiences.

I don't do anecdotes. I accumulate experiences.

My problems aren't so different from anybody else.

If the experiences in my childhood have helped me become strong, then I can articulate those experiences and perhaps tell people out there that have gone through the same thing that they're not alone.