Quotes about Experience

Readers don't want to read about somebody else having powerful emotions. . . . Readers want to become somebody else for a few hours, to live an exciting life, to find true love, to face down unimaginable terrors, to solve impossible puzzles, to feel a lightning jolt of adrenaline.

I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question. Tell me," I said. You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones.

We're all gonna become overweight sponges if we just soak up spiritual data and never get out into the world to be squeezed.

I've never really done this. Now I know what scared is.

I am Nigel 'Benjamin Button' Benn, it's not about age.

By the time Vince McMahon called upon me to become this character, the Million Dollar Man, I had already been wrestling for 12 years.

I look forward to partnering with campus executives, administrators, coaches and student-athletes to enhance the intercollegiate athletics experience.

I'm a Catholic school boy from the military.

It's easy to think you can get discovered on the street, but I developed my chops on the stage - four years of theater in high school, and then another four in college.

I had been raised in the church, but I wasn't a Christian. I had a lot of head knowledge but no heart knowledge.

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

Love is an emotional feeling on a human level and a faith experience on a supernatural level.