#experience

In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

#day #each #even #experience #fact

Being in love is the only transcendent experience. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#being in love #experience #love #love is #only

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#born #early #experiences #made #men

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity. ↗

— Rollo May

#based #being #beings #dignity #emotion

If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#decisions #effect #effects #experience #ignore

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her. ↗

— John McCain

#barbara boxer #because #bitterly #boxer #experience

My experience with Buffalo Springfield was that they did not rehearse. ↗

— Jim Messina

#did #experience #rehearse #springfield

I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#agents #another #book #brown #deal

When I first started with 'Twilight,' I didn't have any experience. I didn't know what I was doing. So I was pretty intimidated by the editors and the publishers, and I felt like I was a kid in school with the principal telling me what to do! It was hard for me. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#doing #editors #experience #felt #first

In the United States in 2009, more than 10.2 billion trips were taken on transit trains and buses. So far, the nation has not experienced a major transit attack since Sept. 11, but the March 2010 Moscow subway bombings and earlier train attacks in London and Mumbai show that we must be prepared. ↗

— John Mica

#attacks #be prepared #billion #bombings #buses