Quotes about Experience

Revival is: God, gladly at the center of my life, experienced and enjoyed.

We can be moved only by way of our veils. We are touched through our veils.

Moving therefore from an original center, the sexual engagements of infinite players have no standards, no ideals, no marks of success or failure. Neither orgasm nor conception is a goal in their play, although either may be part of the play.

The infinite player in us does not consume time but generates it. Because infinite play is dramatic and has no scripted conclusion, its time is time lived and not time viewed.

Books, you know, Charles, are like lobster-shells. We surround ourselves with 'em, and then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidences of our earlier stages of development.

Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.

Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience.

Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.

In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one.

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time with different brokers on 'Wall Street.' It helps get the rhythm of the piece and the tone, and how overplayed or underplayed it might be. That's also the magic of movies: You get to hang out and live these different lives.

Have you ever been hurt by someone you loved, Carpenter, but loved that person anyway?" "Indeed, I have." "And? Was it worth it?" "Every single time." ? Rachel Hauck, To Love a Prince