#peri

I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#away #back #back to school #button #experience

As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#even #executive #experience #had #jesus

I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it. ↗

— David Coverdale

#i #last #learn #like #live

The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#conception #consciously #democratic #economic #economic prosperity

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#drawn #experience #i #i believe #many

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#any #believe #exercise #fact #how

People can really have an impact on a campaign and learn an awful lot. It can be an enjoyable experience. ↗

— Steve Chabot

#campaign #enjoyable #experience #impact #learn

The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#closest #closest thing #death #earth #ever

I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#after #capacity #chain #could #events

Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience. ↗

— Melanie Chisholm

#experience #insane #spice #spice girls