#peri

Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue can also convey a sense of place. Even so, I insist, the traveler invents the place. Feeling compelled to comment on my travel books, people say to me, "I went there"---China, India, the Pacific, Albania-- "and it wasn't like that." I say, "Because I am not you. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#perceptions #travel #experience

That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us. ↗

— Benny Goodman

#carnegie hall #dubious #expected #experience #first

One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life. ↗

— Julius Erving

#any #back #consumed #endeavor #experience

Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty. ↗

— Henri La Fontaine

#country #duty #establish #great #here

I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from that experience was that it's more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up. A lot of people don't realize that. ↗

— Glenn Ford

#called #difficult #down #experience #film

I loved Herman's Head. And it was a great experience. ↗

— Lita Ford

#great #head #herman #i #loved

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#field #get #more #only #politics

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#depression #economy #government #great #great depression

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#experience #mistakes #slowly #teaches

I've been offered proof of God's existence at regular intervals in my life through experiences so profound they've given goose bumps to atheists. ↗

— Jennifer Skiff

#divine #divine-intervention #god #profound-realizations #proof-of-god