experience
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘experience’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.” -Celine Dion
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“I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.” -Rihanna
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“Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.” -Bob Packwood
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“The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come if you don’t, there’s no hope for you.” -Orson Scott Card
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“Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.” -George Will
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“I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!” -Yani Tseng
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“I’m always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience.” -Dave Brubeck
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“Acting is not a mystery. There’s nothing that I know that other actors don’t know. We all act, we’re all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.” -Vincent D’Onofrio
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“I feel responsible that everyone has a really wonderful experience and to do the best work possible, and to always know my lines and to always be on time and to bring a level to the show in terms of quality that other people will follow.” -Julianna Margulies
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“Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.” -David Mitchell
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“It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.” -Warren Farrell
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“I don’t believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy.” -Ai Weiwei
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“I’ve never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy… I’ve always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasn’t like, ‘Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school.’ I had a great high-school experience.” -Jonah Hill
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“We are creating a unique experience. It’s starts with how you see the building from a distance.” -Helmut Jahn
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“The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.” -Orville Wright
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“I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.” -George Strait
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“When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.” -David Antin
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“My feeling about work is it’s much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.” -Alan Cumming
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“Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.” -Kenneth Branagh
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“It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.” -Emily Mortimer
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“And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience.” -Davy Jones
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“You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination – at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.” -Renny Harlin
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“A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.” -Curt Siodmak
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“You’re working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you’ll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.” -Harvey Keitel
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“No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.” -Hu Shih
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“The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.” -Ninon de L’Enclos
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“And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.” -John Abizaid
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“We really haven’t had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don’t know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario.” -Ron Chernow
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“For me, it is just the total experience – from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.” -Darrell Royal
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“Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I’ve ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.” -Brooke Shields
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“But because we’ve all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.” -Wallace Shawn
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“The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.” -Ernst Mach
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“When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.” -Jasper Johns
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“You know, my life’s changed now. I’m starting to experience what people are really supposed to do. You supposed to be married. You’re supposed to have a family, kids, treat your wife right.” -Mike Epps
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“The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.” -Erwin Schrodinger
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“There are some things you only learn through experience.” -Joe Namath
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“On the one hand, we’ll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.” -Bruce Willis
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“If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You’re dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.” -Quincy Jones
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“I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that’s all I’d remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me.” -Seth Rogen
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“I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.” -Gail Simmons
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“The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods.” -Andrew Mason
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“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.” -Diana Krall
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“You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and they’ll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle.” -Robert Rodriguez
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“Being in love is the only transcendent experience.” -Armistead Maupin
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“I’ve had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You’ve got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you don’t cut.” -Ethan Hawke
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“Dramatic experience is not logical it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.” -Allen Tate
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“So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I’ve found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.” -David Frum
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“Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it’s a better something.” -Moon Unit Zappa
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“My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.” -David Schwimmer
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“Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.” -Michael Eisner
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“Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn’t want to do anything that could reflect it.” -Walter Salles
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“It’s been my experience that every time I think I know where it’s at, it’s usually somewhere else.” -Blake Edwards
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“Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you’re selling, then you don’t know what you’re selling, and it’s probably not going to be a good experience.” -Marissa Mayer
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“Truth be told, I’m not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it’s been my experience that most people don’t want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.” -Richard Russo
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“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.” -Isaac D’Israeli
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“Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.” -Bashar al-Assad
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“Putting is like wisdom – partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.” -Arnold Palmer
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“I have been blessed in many ways, and one of those is to have been born in Africa, for me a great treasure house of stories. I have been researching it since my infancy reading about it, talking to men and women who have spent their lives in this land, living it as I have…
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“I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.” -Peter De Vries
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“Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy’s long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.” -Mark Zandi
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“It’s really fun at night, because I can see the baby kicking. I can feel the knee or the foot. The baby is starting to get heavy, and it’s a really incredible feeling. I’m so grateful I get to experience this.” -Emily Procter
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“When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.” -Jo Nesbo
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“I’ve always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.” -Trey Anastasio
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“There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn’t always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It’s your experience and your observation.” -Robert Carlyle
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“Marimba is much more of a wood-type experience and there is no real possibility of getting a dry sound, and getting that contrast in the same way that you can in a vibraphone.” -Evelyn Glennie
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“Now, having had this experience, I can’t say really what they were looking for. I don’t know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish.” -Liza Minnelli
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“Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.” -Florence Nightingale
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“An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.” -James Baldwin
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“If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that’s fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn’t! They shouldn’t read my work!” -Joyce Maynard
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“There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you’re involved in, whether it’s a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.” -Gary Gygax
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“If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.” -Bob Feller
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“A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.” -Ian Mcewan
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“I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. There’s European egocentricity, and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European.” -Henning Mankell
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“There are a lot of impractical things about owning a Porsche. But they’re all offset by the driving experience. It really is unique. Lamborghinis and Ferraris come close. And they are more powerful, but they don’t handle like a Porsche.” -Kevin O’Leary
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“But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you’re an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.” -Hugh Grant
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“When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience.” -Kathryn Bigelow
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“I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school.” -Brittany Snow
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“I don’t think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it’s our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.” -Hilary Swank
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“Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.” -Mary Daly
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“Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement.” -Christian Slater
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“And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.” -Vicente Fox
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“If you’re working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it.” -Greg Kinnear
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“Certainly I’ve had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.” -John Hawkes
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“And then I went to ‘Dawson’s Creek,’ which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language. It was a word-perfect show, which I’d never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time, it wasn’t my favorite working experience.”…
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“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.” -George Osborne
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“My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.” -Jack Kevorkian
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“If there’s any object in human experience that’s a precedent for what a computer should be like, it’s a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.” -Jaron Lanier
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“I didn’t know if I had the music for it or if I could pull off the larger concert experience. Then I realized if I can just continue to be myself, I’ll be all right.” -Jason Mraz
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“In some movies you feel like you’re a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it’s a more concentrated and quiet experience.” -Minnie Driver
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“Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.” -David Copperfield
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“I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there’s an adjustment that you have to make.” -Kristen Wiig
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“With a lot of films, people are sitting on the outside looking in, but I want the audience to get a bit more intimately involved with what’s going on, so that they maybe can experience it a little bit more intensely.” -Andrea Arnold
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“I’ve had a great experience with pretty much everybody I’ve worked with.” -Mia Wasikowska
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“God’s way of answering the Christian’s prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.” -Richard Cecil
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“From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.” -Angela Merkel
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“If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won’t crumble.” -Henry Kravis
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“I wouldn’t say I’m a method actor. I do research when I feel I don’t have enough experience for the part I’m playing.” -Tim Robbins
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“Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating – the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.” -Dan Stevens
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“From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at – you know, and the soapbox routine. They’re much more uneasy knowing they’re a target of ridicule.” -Carl Hiaasen
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“The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience.” -Hugh Mackay
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“The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.” -Christa McAuliffe
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“The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.” -Henri Poincare
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“When they call the slightest spending reductions ‘painful’, we will say ‘If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?’ And ‘If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.’” -Mitch Daniels
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“You know, I’ve learned a lot from every person I’ve collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I’ve taken something important away from every experience.” -Talib Kweli
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“Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.” -Walter Pater
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“Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. ‘The CBS Evening News,’ ‘ABC World News’ and ‘NBC Nightly News’ haven’t changed their style over the decades, still going for that old-fashioned mix of voice-of-authority pomp and feel-good fluff. The difference is that people aren’t watching.” -Rob Sheffield
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“Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you’re playing through your own experience – so we’re all different.” -Ian Mckellen
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“Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat terrorism, and achieve unity. We are not in need of your bases, your experience and etc.” -Muqtada al Sadr
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“I mean, I really liked those guys and the experience of doing Raiders was really good for me, but I did not really want to be involved – I only did Jedi, as I really owed George a favor.” -Lawrence Kasdan
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“Rhetoric and dialectics can’t change what I have learned from observation and experience.” -Paul Getty
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“I’m a very professional man. I’m not out for the experience of adventure.” -Werner Herzog
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“I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience what things are funny and not.” -Keenen Ivory Wayans
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“Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn’t pass my friend’s sixth-grade class.” -Michelle Williams
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“I just love to experience things. I would do almost anything once.” -Brooke Burke
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“Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.” -Carlos Fuentes
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“Experience is the extract of suffering.” -Arthur Helps
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“There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.” -Isabelle Adjani
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“Capital isn’t that important in business. Experience isn’t that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.” -Harvey S. Firestone
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“Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.” -Franklin P. Jones
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“I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.” -T. D. Jakes
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“Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.” -Stanislav Grof
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“I mean, I’m an uncle of seven or eight, and I don’t mind it at all! Kids are great. Kids are the best six-hour experience you can have!” -Chris O’Dowd
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“By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.” -Ayelet Waldman
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“I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me – I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They’re very calm, they’re all about positive energy. There’re no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there…
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“When you’re a soul singer, I’m singing a lot of songs about love and relationships that I think a lot of girls really relate to. For whatever reason, that seems to get ’em excited. The DJ, everyone always says the DJ gets all the chicks, but that’s never been my experience.” -Mayer Hawthorne
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“My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more.…
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“Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.” -Robert M. Pirsig
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“Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women’s rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.” -Ingrid Newkirk
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“Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.” -William Whewell
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“People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It’s over the day that child is born. It’s over, and something completely new starts.” -Bill Murray
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“Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.” -John Berger
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“You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they…
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“The greatest way for people to experience a comedy is to go in not knowing anything about it. But because of marketing, it’s impossible. Marketing meaning that in order to get people to come you can’t just go, ‘Hey, there’s a great movie – we’re not going to show you anything from it but trust…
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“There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.” -Charles Schumer
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“There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.” -Umberto Eco
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“When I’m writing, I’m constantly thinking about myself, because it’s the only experience I have to draw on. And I don’t see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that’s why the fans are there.” -Chester Bennington
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“With ‘Bright Star’ and with ‘The Piano,’ too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I’d get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it’s contemporary, creates its own world.”…
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“In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.” -Quintilian
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“You shouldn’t be afraid of failure – when something fails, you think, ‘What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.’ Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don’t get disappointed.” -Niklas Zennstrom
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“Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn’t go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.” -Josh Radnor
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“Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you’ll get it done!” -Rachael Ray
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“I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.” -Lionel Blue
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“One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.” -Julius Erving
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“By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.” -Roger Ascham
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“I think most artists will experience a lot of negative people on Twitter but, thank God, I’ve got so many followers that I’m not able to see them that much. I’ll see some from time to time but, for the most part, I always focus on something good.” -Nicki Minaj
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“I think we’re the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It’s not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be…
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“Experience tells you what to do confidence allows you to do it.” -Stan Smith
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“My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.” -Vince Cable
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“I feel that between my experience and my mother’s, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.” -Cynthia Nixon
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“An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who’s kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.” -Andrew Greeley
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“I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it’s nothing like that at all. It’s a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you’re filling in spaces.” -Charlie Kaufman
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“You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward.” -Aubrey O’Day
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“When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.” -Al Yankovic
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“Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.” -Arthur Smith
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“Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.” -Anna Deavere Smith
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“In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.” -Alberto Moravia
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“Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room.” -Eric Liu
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“People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.” -John Hodgman
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“The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly.” -Jeremy Renner
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“It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.” -Raul Julia
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“While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn’t really need to go to school anymore.” -Russell Crowe
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“You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform…
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“As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.” -Jacques Lacan
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“I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.” -Willie Stargell
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“I would vote for the man who’s lived life, who’s done different occupations, who’s been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I’d vote for experience, honest experience.” -Oliver Stone
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“It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.” -Corey Feldman
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“A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.” -Diane Keaton
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“Man tells his aspiration in his God but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.” -Margaret Fuller
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“There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.” -Charles Ives
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“But in the back of my mind I’ve always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it’s done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it.” -Christopher Nolan
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“In my experience, it’s all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of calm down and start focusing their testosterone. Girls get a little challenging, especially for fathers.” -Tim Allen
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“My kids will grow up in a house knowing that it’s perfectly normal for two men to be in love, it’s perfectly normal for two women to be in love. My kids will grow up knowing it’s all about love. It doesn’t matter who you’re with and everyone should have that experience.” -Tori Spelling
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“‘Donny and Marie’ was a great experience. I tried so hard to be a great talk show host but it’s all about relaxing and enjoying it. Marie and I finally figured that out. I would have liked it to continue but I’m kind of glad it’s over because of the phenomenal workload.” -Donny Osmond
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“I didn’t go to high school, so I don’t have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.” -Josh Hutcherson
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“It’s been quite an experience, being conservative and living in the North East.” -Ann Romney
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“I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.” -Bessie Coleman
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“The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.” -Gloria Swanson
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“When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way – you suddenly have a new perspective on them.” -Allen Klein
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