Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gisele Bundchen

When you get to experience something that is outside of your reality, it changes you.

Norman Finkelstein

I had been a Maoist, and then when the Gang of Four was overthrown, I was completely distraught. I was bedridden for three weeks; it was a very painful experience for me. Not only because I had been wrong, but because I felt really embarrassed that I had been lecturing and pontificating with such self-confidence.

We played a good game. We had some kids who didn't have varsity experience who played well.

Sam Harris

In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.

Shane Carruth

I'm only interested in science fiction that's used as a literary device, a shortcut into something more exploratory or universal about our experience. That's why I think it was invented and why mythology was invented; it's a tool, not an end to itself.

Sevyn Streeter

You always hear how female artists don't get along, how they hate each other - but that hasn't been my experience.

Trip Adler

When most people hit failure, they give up, but good entrepreneurs simply treat failure as a learning experience and use it to fuel and inform their next move.

Trip Adler

The subscriptions were working so well, and on top of that, we saw the success of Netflix and Spotify and thought, 'We can create a similar kind of experience for books.'

Tobin Bell

'Saw' has been a unique experience in that I've had the opportunity to work with some really great artists, and everyone has contributed in so many different ways, in all of the different departments of a film crew.

Taylor Schilling

There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you. The experience was so good.

Bruce Cockburn

'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short trip, but it was a powerful experience.

Marianne Williamson

I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me.

Sakshi Tanwar

I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?

Dennis Quaid

When I get a script, it's the only time that I get to be an audience member with the first-time experience of that movie. That's the first and only time.

Jane Smiley

When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

We're so mixed up about religion in this culture. We say the Pledge of Allegiance, 'under God indivisible,' but there's no prayer in the schools. I would be so untethered without my personal faith. I wouldn't be able to go through a day - but that's my own experience.

Vanessa Williams

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

In Haiti, it - people seemed - in my experience in Haiti, people are so open to photographs and journalism. And there doesn't seem to be the same sort of restrictions or wariness about the press that you would experience in Washington, for instance, on many levels.

Christian Siriano

I'm young and I have a lot of experience and I learn quickly.

Lee Smith

I think what happens to young writers is that they use up every life experience that they have had up to that point for their first novel. Then you have to come up with something for the second novel, but you really don't have anything to say.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

I can't say I have enough experience with Hollywood to feel that I've encountered racism there. I can tell you that I did about five fruitless years of auditioning for voiceovers where I did variations on tacos and Latin accents, and my first screen role was as a bellhop on 'The Sopranos.'

Kaui Hart Hemmings

I try to think of it not as writer's block, but a time where you just need to live life and experience things so you have something to write about.

John Sculley

The healthcare industry has never had a priority on user experience because there has been little competition. Prices have never been transparent.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

Birth is really judgy, and people get really opinionated. Everyone's entitled to the experience they want.

Bobby Robson

We had an inner strength and the players are better for that experience. We played the big teams and were never outclassed.

When you're really hands-on, it's going to give you a real-life experience on how it's going to go.

Noah Baumbach

I graduated in '91, so the '90s for me were very much the first years out of school, so I can't really look at that decade as independent of my own experience of my 20s, really.

Saudi men have sisters, mothers, and wives, and in my working experience, I have had tremendous support from Saudi men. I really don't think that Saudi women are oppressed or abused.

Cybill Shepherd

Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me to live through the open racism of the time.

Chris Hayes

I think you'll see if you look at 'Up', we've focused a lot on labor (and the forces trying to keep labor down) and have featured everything from Wal Mart workers, to on-the-ground organizers, to union presidents to restaurant workers sitting at the table sharing their experience and expertise.

Chris Hayes

You start noticing that people are noticing how you look, and it is a profoundly alienating experience when it first happens, where you go on TV and you say something about some topic of the day, and on the Internet people are like, 'What was up with that shirt?' 'What was up with your hair?' And you think, 'Oh, that's kind of a bummer.'

Robert Lanza

Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.