Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. Carlos Fuentes expandexperiencehistory Change image and share on social
One thing I know from personal experience, judges hate it when parties talk publicly about their cases. There are a lot of things about our criminal legal system that need to be changed, and this is just one of them. Prosecutors know how to play the press. Most defendants don't. Michael Arrington casechangecriminal share on social
There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart. Hunter S. Thompson differenceexperiencefun Change image and share on social
You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time. Julie Mehretu collectiveexperiencemake Change image and share on social
I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release. Joaquin Phoenix discomfortexperiencefunny Change image and share on social
When I write, my goal is to delve deeply enough into the human experience to find a sort of universality. Once you dig down underneath surface differences, we are all human beings. And all human beings want essentially the same things at our core. We want to love and be loved. We want to be safe. We want our loved ones to be safe. Catherine Ryan Hyde beingcoredeeply share on social
With experience also comes the understanding that you have to beat the rally before you can beat the competition. Robby Gordon beatcompetitionexperience Change image and share on social
Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all. Joshua Foer dayexperiencefeel share on social
I haven't had a chance to decorate my dressing room yet, but I have these pictures of myself as a kid that I want to put up because I said, 'I really want to make sure that I take that kid with me on this journey.' I want him to experience this. chancedecoratedress share on social
Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility. Jacob K. Javits beautybirthcontemplation Change image and share on social