Famous Quotes & Sayings

Reed Hastings

How much has it been your experience that Americans follow what happens in the world?

Renata Adler

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history

Walter Kirn

Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.

I thought I was kind of a hotshot because I had had two years of work experience at Morgan Stanley, and I was about to get my Stanford M.B.A.

Frank Pierson

It used to be that we felt that when we went to a theater, a legitimate theater... that we were going to share an experience together. That when we walked away where there would be something to talk about in that movie that had some meaning and relevance in our lives. And I think that we have lost that.

Gabriel Byrne

Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.

Emil Zatopek

We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.

Edmund White

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

Chuck D.

This was a great experience for us to play in the regional. It should help us out for next season.

This was a great experience for me. Last year I only got in seven rounds total, so this is a fight that I can look at and really take away a lot of things from.

This was a great experience and we would have liked the season to keep going. Next year will be different.

This was a good opportunity for some of the young players to get some experience in.

There are the friends that understand, and the friends that don't. The friends who don't have truly never had the full experience of post-secondary education. I always found that if you tie yourself down to just the two, work and school, you aren't as productive as you'd like to be. You need to have fun.

There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.

The only thing that experience tells me is you can't be 100% sure about any player.

Yes, the experience of all stages of life are valuable, not just of youth.

Drew Houston

People do not choose Dropbox because it has this much space or gigabytes. They choose it for the experience.

Nancy Pelosi

I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.

Lynsey Addario

I was lucky because I had parents who have enabled me to do whatever I was passionate about and never held my siblings and me back from anything. But I think a lot of people don't have that experience.

Marcel Desailly

King will have a lot of experience around him, Sol campbell, (David) Beckham, even Michael Owen will be able to help, ... They have for sure to tell him this will be a tough game from start to finish, and the first that makes the mistake will lose the game.

Mike Piazza

kind of fun, especially in New York. I've seen it on smaller levels in other cities, but it's fun to get into the rivalry thing and experience it.

Kenny won't be intimidated by the kids and the kids won't be intimidated by Kenny. With all of his experience and the type of person he is, Kenny is about the perfect teammate for those guys.

Tedy Bruschi

I wouldn't be standing here in front of you if I didn't think I could play football, ... I know my physical abilities are here. I think my 10 years of experience will help also. I know what it looks like, I know how to react to it, just from experience.

Paul Burke

Keith's 30 years of experience in hotel and resort operations in a variety of markets together with his strong leadership skills ideally qualify him for this position.

Knute Nelson

Keeping a promise made before I left you folks, I will now take pen in hand for a little while and tell you about my experience of a soldier's life.

just very humbled, and appreciative, and amazed; it was a very happy experience.

J. C. Chandor

Just making a movie the way 'All is Lost' had to be made was a great experience, because it was structured differently than any other film I will make for the rest of my life.

Just this experience of getting to this point for next year will help us. The more situations we're in, the less we'll panic. With youth you'll get that. As soon as our skills improve, I think our panic will improve and we have a whole year to work on that now.

Just the experience is going to be great, just being there and walking around.

I think it's a good long-term investment. They've got a ton of experience between Mason Hawkins and Stanley Cates, and the managers have significant portions of their own net worth in the Longleaf funds. They have every incentive to do right by their shareholders.

Willie Anderson

I think it's a different feel for our fans. In years past we have been packing it up at this time of the season. I think our fans have been caving it in, too. It's a new experience for everybody.