• "Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience." - Susan Orlean Tweet
• "I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile." - Danny Boyle Tweet
• "Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture." - Natalie Portman Tweet
• "And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high." - Ayrton Senna Tweet
• "A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience." - Stanley Baldwin Tweet
• "When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are." - Shirley MacLaine Tweet
• "There's no experience like on-the-job training." - Hank Azaria Tweet
• "When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'" - Mitch Daniels Tweet
• "I've never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy... I've always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasn't like, 'Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school.' I had a great high-school experience." - Jonah Hill Tweet
• "But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy." - George Eliot Tweet