Experience Quotes

I don't usually experience that because there are few people who intimidate me, but Woody was one of them.

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

When I fell into modeling, because I wanted to work in fashion. I wanted to do styling or make-up. I ended getting picked up to be a model instead during my work experience.

When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.

I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.

A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.

My experience at the 1992 Winter Olympics was my fulfillment of dreaming the Impossible Dream.

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.

The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life.

Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

Immediately after the Floyd experience, I became a pop record producer.

I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.

We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

I'll tell you what colonial experience is.

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.