#erie

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience. ↗

— Wallis Simpson

#around #challenge #compelling #each #emotionally

I know from experience that females need a certain amount of chocolate. We have two of them in the house. I don't want them growing restless. ↗

— Pamela Clare

#experience

I never wanted to be a film director but after this experience I really loved it. I would love to do more documentaries but it's difficult to find backing for them. ↗

— Marc Singer

#backing #difficult #director #documentaries #experience

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#difficulty #discoveries #established #great #greatest

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#actual life #books #experience #gained #gathered

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ↗

— Jane Smiley

#contain #desire #experience #motivation #only

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#fulfilling #home #however #intended #never

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience). ↗

— James Schuyler

#genesis #i #make #me #mean

Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own and very much based on my experiences at the University of Southern California. ↗

— Josh Schwartz

#california #certainly #experiences #his #much

It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted. ↗

— Josh Schwartz

#experience #fluidity #more #people #sexuality