Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. Angela Carter bookbringexperience Change image and share on social
My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion. Alek Wek experiencefashionmake Change image and share on social
My best travelling experience lasted several years: between 1971 and 1974 when I bummed around the East. All I had with me was a cooking pot, a stove, a map and blankets and a couple of dhotis. Antony Gormley blanketbumcook Change image and share on social
The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure. Alice Miller abusearticulatecareful share on social
An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me. Andrew Greeley adolescentcuriouslyexperience share on social
When I was 11, I went to Puerto Rico for a month to stay with my grandmother. To see the way people lived there and experience my own culture was wonderful. Andrea Navedo cultureexperiencegrandmother Change image and share on social
I did three movies in a row, and that was horrible. It was a horrible experience for me. Andie MacDowell experiencehorriblemovie Change image and share on social
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. Albert Schweitzer existexperienceheave Change image and share on social
There are some beautiful books out there. But the ones that leave me cold are the ones where I feel - it's that postmodern thing - it's more experimentation with language than it is a deep compassionate falling into another human being's experience. Andre Dubus III beautifulbookcold share on social
I've had a great experience in the fashion business. Andie MacDowell businessexperiencefashion Change image and share on social
