Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

Chogyam Trungpa

One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

Lukas Haas

It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing.

Lorraine Toussaint

I hope that whenever my daughter has a negative experience, I'm there to talk about it and remind her how we feel when it's done to her so that she doesn't do it to others.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences

Mike Cisco

We've all had experience to this point, which has been good.

Diana DeGarmo

West Side Story. It's a totally new experience for me. I've always loved theater.

African Proverb

We start as fools and become wise through experience

Dan Brooks

When you've got talent from top to bottom, everybody's playing to count. It's a tremendous experience to play without that mental cushion.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

Lisa Gansky

I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

M. Night Shyamalan

'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.

Ledawn Gibson

We started off kind of sluggish. I felt like we could've come out better to play, but after we made some adjustments we were able to get things going.

Barnett Newman

From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series,

Matt Hasselbeck

We actually felt we had the momentum after that. It was good for our offense.

Stan Clark

We always felt we did the proper thing.

Shirley Manson

We always felt like we've never specifically fitted in with anyone; there's never been a movement surrounding what we're doing.

Petr Sykora

We have to finish the season on a good note. It doesn't matter what the outcome of the game is, but we have to feel good about ourselves. I don't think we felt like that tonight. We have a lot of guys who are injured so we need to get healthy and ready.

John Owens

Since we're not making money, I think there is skepticism that is out there and it is legitimate skepticism.

Danny White

We still have a legitimate shot at going to the playoffs if we can get on a little run. Two teams will go to the playoffs from our division, so we still have a shot.

Diane Rodriguez

You don't pay money to get money. Those aren't legitimate scholarships.

Paul Ballew

There is legitimate pressure on some utility categories.

Scott Weiss

As a first-time CEO, I wasn't sure if I would scale to run IronPort long-term. But I wanted a legitimate shot at it.

Bob Martinez

But we told Mike we're not going to back off on what we see as our legitimate role as a party.

Matt White

I don't condone the use of EPO, but it does have a legitimate use in the treatment of a number of cancers.

Ghassan Khatib

He is pursuing a unilateral approach, which is not constructive, and he wants peace that is incompatible with our legitimate rights and with international legality,

M. Powell

I think it's a very legitimate issue, but I think it's way down on the priority list.

Alan Ball

I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

Al Oerter

Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.

Al Seckel

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.

Chogyam Trungpa

The basic wisdom of Shambhala is that in this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life that will also serve others. That is our true richness.

Chip Conley

What one thing can you start counting today that will actually be meaningful in your life?

Dave Chappelle

You've got to say 'yes' to your destiny. Life's happening right now, look around you. There goes some life. Come on, Mamma, live!

David Guterson

Fiction is socially meaningful.

Dave Barry

I always assumed that at some point I would have to quit making jokes, get a real job and do something meaningful and productive that would actually benefit society. Fortunately this never happened.

David Suchet

I can't try to convert anybody. It's not in me to do that. But my faith has given me such an appreciation of people and meaningful relationships, and a world view which I didn't have before. And although I will fail every day, it gives me something to aspire to.

Dolly Parton

For me, these songs are not really political, but more a sign of the times, ... I see them as songs of hope, songs with strong messages, songs that take on a new relevance today.

Alan Watts

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Jaron Lanier

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Jason Miller

We're not going to share our playbook with the other team.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Cecilia Bartoli

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't feel I have to share everything.

Edgar Quinet

What we share with another ceases to be our own....

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.

Arlen Specter

Should (the information) have been shared if it could have prevented (the) 9/11 (attacks)?

Charles Caleb Colton

It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

Alan Watts

People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'

Alan Watts

We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

Alan Rickman

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

Alan Rickman

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

Alan Moore

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

Alan Greenspan

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

Alain Resnais

It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.

Greg Beratlis

We did what was right ... If this person had been innocent, he would have walked out of there.

Harvey Korman

And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.

Ray Brown

He walked into the storm. He's probably dead.

Pamela Dixon

He walked in just like us and walked out like a high-powered attorney.

Greg Darnell

If they walked up to me today, I wouldn't know them.

Daniel Libeskind

We all came to see that site. We all walked around it. It is already sacred.

Forrest Pearson

We walked out practically side-by-side. I thought everything was cool.

Doug Bruno

We cried, we laughed, told stories. We walked away reflected. She was a bubbly, fun-loving personality.

Dr. Beebe

You've got to try and normalize your life. I just walked around every morning, the same as I do here (in Connecticut).