Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. Lewis Mumford
I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience. Martha Plimpton
I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge. Kristin Scott Thomas
Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. Jeanette Winterson
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. Alfred North Whitehead
Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm. Kim Cattrall
There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell. Kim Cattrall
The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. Arthur Miller
Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one? Lawrence G. Lovasik
Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility. Jon Meacham
I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different. Mos Def
If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later. Lena Dunham
Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people. Amy Grant
Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us. Jonathan Safran Foer
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience. Shelley Winters
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance. Isadora Duncan
With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way. Gus Van Sant
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul. Arnold Bennett
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. Harold MacMillan