Experience Quotes

We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.

Patricia Ireland
- Women
- Family
- Nature
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

Samuel Johnson
- Experience
- Law
- Wisdom

But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.

Dennis Eckersley
- Experience
- Control
When I started really writing fantasy, one of the things I noticed was a real absence of sexuality in the genre at all. And it's such a profound part of the human experience that it's a really big thing to leave out.

Jacqueline Carey
- Writing
- Real
- Profound
So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.

James Iha The Smashing Pumpkins
- People
- Learning
- Band
Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.

Jeffrey Eugenides
- Up
- Experience
In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.

Charles William Eliot
- Power
- Small
- Child
Anderson Cooper's on-air reaction to Bob Simon's death; Wolf Blitzer personalizing his experience in going back to Auschwitz where his grandparents lost their lives - I think that has all made our air more authentic.

Jeff Zucker
- Death
- Lost
- Air