Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Let weakness learn meekness.

Alfred North Whitehead

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches, And most, of sterling worth, is what Our own experience preaches.

Albert Einstein

Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind.

Albert Einstein

The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy.

Albert Einstein

Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.

Alice B. Toklas

Experience is never at bargain price.

We want these kids' first experience with organized football to be positive.

You look at the years he's played, the experience he has -- he knows all the Xs and Os in the NHL,

You don't need to be the most talented group in the world or have the most experience to still play the game the right way and play it aggressive.

Michael Hayes

You don't need experience to do this. We even have online video that takes you step-by-step.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I just love performing so much, and I threw myself into every musical theater production that was going in my home town and at school. And then, I went to the National Youth Music Theatre, which was really a galvanizing experience for me when I was 17.

Shirley MacLaine

The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.

Win Butler

Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what things mean, and there's not really any tools to do that unless you're thinking about it in a more spiritual or philosophical realm.

There's no reason that there has to be a fringe network that illuminates an urban or a multiethnic experience.

Audiences want and need a shared viewing experience.

Bertie Carvel

It's an odd experience reading interviews with yourself. Interesting, though. Of course, you know that the journalist will have edited, rephrased or even rewritten what you actually said, but you can't help feeling that there's a special kind of truth in the way someone else paints you, however subjective they might be.

Berthe Morisot

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.

Bill Callahan

When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't been written yet.

A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.

Becki Newton

I've learned through experience that you can't ever predict what's going to happen with any show. When I signed on to 'Ugly Betty,' I just prayed that I wouldn't get fired after the pilot, and four years later, I was still doing it.

Tom Riley

I feel like the experience I gained at university has really helped to inform me as far as who I wanted to become as an actor and what I wanted to do.

Tim Hunt

'Eureka' moments are very, very rare in my experience. It normally takes several weeks of experiments to tease out the truth, even when you have a really pretty good idea of what is going on.

Tim Hunt

Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.

Tim Huelskamp

When under siege, if we do not stand for our liberties and for the liberties of those who are unable to stand for themselves, then the great American experience will come to an end.

Ted Sarandos

If you want to go out and see a movie and sit in a dark room with strangers, it's not an experience you can replicate at home.

Ted Sarandos

I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.

We don't have to rush. The train will still operate, still give guests a good experience. It is more important to do it right.

A. R. Ammons

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

Rick Atkinson

I think I may try and write something about my pretty extraordinary experience with the 101st in Iraq.

Skylar Grey

I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.