#erie

Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave. ↗

— Paul Walker

#awesome #been #disappears #experience #i

‎The simple truth is that you can understand a town. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent it, and nothing changes. In the end, you're just another part of it. ↗

— Brenna Yovanoff

#faeries #fairies #fay #small-town #the-replacement

Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience. ↗

— Felix de Weldon

#because #city #commission #could #devote

In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc. ↗

— Edmund White

#betrays #book #boy #case #creepy

The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound. ↗

— Mark White

#experience #experimentation #personal #sound #ultimately

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#characters #driven #end #experience #extreme

My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#asked #children #did #experience #four

A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#almost #been #blame #cases #children

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear. ↗

— Diana Krall

#combination #creeps #experience #how #imagination

You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart. ↗

— Diana Krall

#broken #broken heart #creating #everybody #experience