“I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.”
– Peter De Vries
“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
“You may count on Mexico’s support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.”
– Vicente Fox
“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
“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
“I’ve always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.”
– Trey Anastasio
“And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.”
– Vicente Fox
“It’s been my experience that every time I think I know where it’s at, it’s usually somewhere else.”
– Blake Edwards
“Certainly I’ve had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.”
– John Hawkes
“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.”
– Busy Philipps
“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
“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.”
– Isaac D’Israeli
“The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.”
– Marissa Mayer
“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
“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
“We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.”
– Bashar al-Assad
“Putting is like wisdom – partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.”
– Arnold Palmer
“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
“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
“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 and loving it as I do. I write almost entirely from my own experience.”
– Wilbur Smith
“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
“Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.”
– Mary Daly
“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
“Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.”
– Joyce Maynard
“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
“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
“In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.”
– Ian Mcewan
“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
“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
“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