People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.
The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.
The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I'd be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby.
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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.
Anyone who knows me knows that I am really into hair. I'm a real girly girl and love doing my hair and experimenting with different styles.
Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.
When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't really sure how the music would play out because the music was all on different players.
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
The process of grief and loss is as unique as your personal DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid); no two individuals will have the same experiences or relationship to grief.
Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don't yet know what to do with.
It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.
Most scientists will get serious media exposure about twice in their entire career. And they'll get that because they've actually done an experiment that was interesting.
A revolution is taking place within her, as though a lifetime's experience could be outdistanced in the span of a conversation.
While you keep ageing, your experience compensates for your lost brain power.
Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.
The high quality of a company’s customer experience rarely has anything to do with the high price of their product.
Travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures.
it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it
Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.
