I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.
The truth is, I need to experience my mother's presence in the world around me and not just in my head.
The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.
Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.
Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!
An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.
However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on the order of actual occurrence.
I have no doubt that for some to become a Christian may involve an experience of ecstasy. Yet I do not think such an experience is necessary for someone to be a Christian.
Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
You've got to have a young element in a show. Any project needs youth and dynamism as well old codgerdom and experience.
The experience of opposing mass movements was acquired by the KGB during perestroika. It was then that the politicians decided to develop and nourish mass movements for their purposes.
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.
An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
