Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. – Mary Baker Eddy
I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric. – Cate Blanchett
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. – Ellen Key
There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. – Rebecca West
I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit. – Miranda Lambert
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art – and, by analogy, our own experience – more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. – Susan Sontag
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation. – R. D. Laing
I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around. – Chuck Close
Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience. – Eric Butterworth
Obviously an actor draws on his own experience. – Christopher Walken
I really do love Diana Ross I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her. – Salma Hayek
Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself. – Henry Reed
Producing is just a big learning experience. – Ashley Tisdale
Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care. – Dave Obey
Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. – John Updike
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. – Charles de Secondat
Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves. – Jaron Lanier
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat. – John le Carre
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. – John le Carre
Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain. – William Styron
