Experience Quotes

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

Henry Louis Gates

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

George Santayana

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

George Bernard Shaw

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

I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg.

Jonah Hill

Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time.

Joshua Foer

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

Eudora Welty

For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.

Joaquin Phoenix

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

Carrie Fisher

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

Jan Peter Balkenende

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

Miranda Lambert

Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.

Catherine Deneuve

The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

Menander

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

David Copperfield

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

Muriel Rukeyser

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

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

James Taylor

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

Thomas Wolfe

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

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.

Bruce Springsteen