Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage. – Frederick Buechner
These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better. – Lucy Powell
I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract. – Joaquin Phoenix
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. – Walter Benjamin
My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine. – Jane Pauley
No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability far more unused than used power. – James Cash Penney
I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment. – Lee Child
I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written. – Fareed Zakaria
Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part. – Damian Lewis
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. – 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. – Jane Smiley
It is often difficult to watch yourself onscreen, especially 60-feet high. As an actor, it is an uncomfortable experience. – Chris Hemsworth
My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee. – Jamie Foxx
I hate these platforms that are all over the place today they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience. – Manolo Blahnik
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. – Samuel Smiles
Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all. – Joshua Foer
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. – Samuel Smiles
Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time. – Joshua Foer
Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer. – Mary Baker Eddy
Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind. – Gerald Jampolsky
