The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents.
~By Simon Newcomb ~
Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
~By Rita Rudner ~
It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.
~By Adam Arkin ~
I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.
~By Sonia Sotomayor ~
Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.
~By Lasse Hallstrom ~
My company is known for being funny as well as moving. You get a bit of everything in these shows. I think people know they're going to have a surprising experience.
~By Matthew Bourne ~
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
~By Ansel Adams ~
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.
~By Paul Harris ~
But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.
~By Roy Romer ~
I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability to experience new things - I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of.
~By Will Estes ~
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.
~By Dennis Potter ~
But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends.
~By Robert Foster Bennett ~
The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period of about six months which caused me to decide to give up music, so one morning I felt I had to go to E.G. Management and tell them.
~By Jamie Muir ~
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
~By George Eliot ~
The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.
~By Howie Mandel ~
We knew we did not want to record at Impulse Studios again, after the experience of recording in a 'real' studio in London for the Radio One session we did.
~By John Gallagher ~
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 ~
Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.
~By Richard Lugar ~
Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance, marketing, distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture.
~By John Patrick ~
An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
~By James Dean ~
We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
~By Bashar al-Assad ~
My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.
~By Michael Gerber ~
I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us.
~By George Duke ~
Every moment is an experience.
~By Jake Roberts ~
I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
~By Karolina Kurkova ~
I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.
~By Nick Nolte ~
Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.
~By Arsene Wenger ~
The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.
~By Marissa Mayer ~
You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
~By Taylor Swift ~
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
~By Donald Trump ~
The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.
~By Anne Sullivan Macy ~
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.
~By Eudora Welty ~
I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before.
~By Chita Rivera ~
Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.
~By Tony Visconti ~
You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.
~By Morris West ~
With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks.
~By Geraldo Rivera ~
I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.
~By Dabney Coleman ~
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?
~By Richard Courant ~
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
~By Angela Carter ~
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 ~
Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
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 ~
People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.
~By Neil Sheehan ~
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
~By Confucius ~
Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.
~By James Callaghan ~
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
~By Lillian Smith ~
When I come off the bench, I'm looking to add energy, and then I play defense and rebound. Also, at the end of the game, I have the experience to go out there and help us win.
~By Sue Wicks ~
I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.
~By Cathy Freeman ~
It was a challenging experience. I'm looking forward to a break.
~By Martin Bashir ~
A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life.
~By John Pomfret ~
I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?
~By Debra Winger ~
However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.
~By Peter Straub ~
You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.
~By Stella Adler ~
But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable.
~By John Frankenheimer ~
I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.
~By Robert Anton Wilson ~
It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.
~By James Taylor ~
The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
~By Jacques Derrida ~
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep of that communication that the piece suggests, then the audience will get it and it will be a good experience for all of us.
~By Michael Tilson Thomas ~
We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.
~By Jim Lehrer ~
But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.
~By Chaim Potok ~
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.
~By Erwin Schrodinger ~
I think we are a product of all our experiences.
~By Sanford I. Weill ~
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.
~By Bashar al-Assad ~
I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.
~By Queen Latifah ~
Aledo will always be home to me because I spent the first 27 years of my life there - it's such a special place - and because of the experiences I had there, I've become the person I am today.
~By Suzy Bogguss ~
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.
~By Harry Caray ~
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
~By Benjamin Whorf ~
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
~By Thomas Mann ~
I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
~By Gavin Newsom ~
I prefer Princess. I would love to be known as a diva later on in life when I've had far more experiences.
~By Deborah Cox ~
We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.
~By Otto Frank ~
Ministers regularly meet soldiers that have returned from operational tours to hear about their experiences, including those who have recovered from their injuries.
~By Geoff Hoon ~
Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy.
~By Jayne Mansfield ~
My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.
~By Masaru Ibuka ~
A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is.
~By Aslan Maskhadov ~
The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
~By Arthur Miller ~
Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
~By Felix Adler ~
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 write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
~By John Ashbery ~
Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
~By John Berger ~
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.
~By Andrew Greeley ~
The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
Being in love is the only transcendent experience.
~By Armistead Maupin ~
I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one.
~By Jane Elliott ~
In my experience, men are not necessarily less sensitive or compassionate than women are, and women are not necessarily any less aggressive or competitive than men are - as a matter of fact, often they are more so!
~By Andrew Cohen ~
Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.
~By Blair Underwood ~
I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.
~By Illeana Douglas ~
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.
~By Darrell Royal ~
Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.
~By Lindsay Anderson ~
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
~By Stan Smith ~
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli.
~By Johannes P. Muller ~
For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I've lived and experienced. That's what good pop music is all about, pop music that does reach out to people. It's very personalized and very real, honest and sincere.
~By Jon Secada ~
I'll tell you what colonial experience is.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
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