#experience

They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#characters #experience #imaginary #imaginary characters #imagination

That was our first time together. Interesting, an interesting experience, but not earth-shaking. But then, I never expected it to be earth-shaking, not with him. What I was determined to avoid was emotional entanglement. A passing fling was one thing, an affair of the heart quite another. Of myself I was fairly sure. I was not about to lose my heart to a man about whom I knew next to nothing. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#first #love #experience

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#experiences #feels #gregarious #intense #less

Ecstasy..."When you increase your ability to create ecstasy out of those things found in everyday life, all of your ecstatic sensual experiences grow deeper. ↗

— Barabara Carrellas

#inspiration #life-experience #experience

Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience. ↗

— Nigel Mansell

#crowd #experience #front #grand #grand prix

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#being #concepts #experience #exposed #love

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. ↗

— Karl Marx

#happy #made #most #people #praises

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is. ↗

— Heather Matarazzo

#am #audience #audience member #concerned #critic

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings. ↗

— George Mason

#convince #experience #few #greatest #happened

Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care. ↗

— John Mayer

#actually #because #bold #care #confident