In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
~By Edmund White ~
For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry.
~By Sherwood Boehlert ~
And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well.
~By Laura Hillenbrand ~
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
~By Greg LeMond ~
I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.
~By Jay Roach ~
If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own.
~By Jesse James Garrett ~
At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.
~By Princess Masako ~
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
~By Gerald R. Ford ~
As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.
~By Richard Thompson ~
I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.
~By Juliette Binoche ~
The reward of suffering is experience.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
Not everyone is nice and good to work with or grateful for the experience.
~By Jai Rodriguez ~
Film is a collective experience, as you know.
~By Sydney Pollack ~
I wanted to start with a very small role, to get my feet wet. I'm sure I'm not as good or as experienced as other actresses, but everybody has to start somewhere.
~By Claudia Schiffer ~
The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound.
~By Mark White ~
Over the last six years, airlines have experienced severe financial pressure to leave smaller communities, making demands on the EAS program even greater.
~By Nick Rahall ~
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
~By Isadora Duncan ~
Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
~By John Lothrop Motley ~
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
~By Henry James ~
However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.
~By Noel Redding ~
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.
~By Donnie Yen ~
The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.
~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or anything. I don't need no classroom.
~By Steve Harvey ~
Deep experience is never peaceful.
~By Henry James ~
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
~By Confucius ~
Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.
~By Frederick Leboyer ~
I do think there is something to be said for those who have significant experience at state level and have run campaigns or have been deeply involved in grass roots political campaigns and who have actual hands-on experience.
~By Roy Romer ~
At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north; and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.
~By Ernest Thompson Seton ~
The death of Mrs. Lincoln was a serious loss to her husband and children. Abraham's sister Sarah was only eleven years old, and the tasks and cares of the little household were altogether too heavy for her years and experience.
~By John George Nicolay ~
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
~By George Washington ~
I do feel we have several great keepers on this team. We just need to get them that experience.
~By Lorrie Fair ~
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
~By Alice James ~
It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.
~By Sue Johanson ~
Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.
~By Dave Obey ~
Hollywood looks to these young people now to say something to the world. I have nothing against that, I think a lot of people have things to say. But I think you need life experience.
~By Sasha Alexander ~
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.
~By Maria Monk ~
If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.
~By Aretha Franklin ~
I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days.
~By Jeffrey Jones ~
We said, OK. We'll - as long as you take good care of us. And so it was a lot of fun. There was a lot of ups and downs throughout the whole period of time. And it's a very unique experience.
~By Emmanuel Lewis ~
I'll tell you what colonial experience is.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
~By William Faulkner ~
I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
~By Lou Holtz ~
I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish.
~By Sanaa Lathan ~
I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.
~By Michelle Shocked ~
Being in love is the only transcendent experience.
~By Armistead Maupin ~
As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.
~By Charles Hodge ~
Our goal has been to stay true to what people most love about the original Pirates! while upgrading, enhancing, and in some cases, re-inventing the game to make it a great experience for today's gamers.
~By Sid Meier ~
The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible enough to be believed.
~By Richard Helms ~
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.
~By Chauncey Wright ~
So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.
~By Samuel E. Morison ~
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
~By Alexander Solzhenitsyn ~
The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
~By Xavier Becerra ~
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.
~By Henry S. Haskins ~
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.
~By Bessie Coleman ~
When we compile a petition, we often have members go to their representative's or Senator's offices and deliver it in person. This way they can experience a real connection with the staff.
~By Joan Blades ~
Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.
~By Ben Maddow ~
Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
~By Jim Horning ~
Science is the systematic classification of experience.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
~By Samuel Alexander ~
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.
~By Tom Wopat ~
I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.
~By William Whipple ~
The only source of knowledge is experience.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.
~By Robert Ludlum ~
I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across.
~By Gene Wolfe ~
And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that.
~By Debbie Harry ~
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.
~By John Drinkwater ~
I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.
~By Arthur Cohn ~
It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.
~By Gary Kemp ~
Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.
~By Lawrence R. Klein ~
So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more.
~By Barbara Hershey ~
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.
~By David McCullough ~
You have to understand that during the course of our show, we were a family for five hours a day, five days a week, maybe four days a week. And we experienced the same things that we experienced in our own family.
~By Tom Bosley ~
Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
~By Greg Anderson ~
I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.
~By Todd Gitlin ~
My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.
~By Herbert Read ~
But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony.
~By Edward Witten ~
Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
Most of our history in space has been communicated in terms of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which have transpired - as opposed to the human experience of having done those things.
~By Story Musgrave ~
Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.
~By Pam Grier ~
My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.
~By David Korten ~
I had a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' experience as governor.
~By Gary Johnson ~
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.
~By Larry Harvey ~
My role in 'Legally Blonde' was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the movie. I've had really rewarding experiences on tiny low budget films that you'll never see but where I had a cool time creating characters as well. I love almost all of the characters I've played.
~By Alanna Ubach ~
So, when you see a kid with ratty jeans on, wearing sneakers that aren't clean, you know they're in a certain place economically. I was interested in that experience.
~By Jim McKay ~
While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
~By Barney Frank ~
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.
~By Raul Julia ~
What people want is a seamless Web experience.
~By John McKinley ~
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