However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on the order of actual occurrence. Samuel R. Delany actualexperiencefiction Change image and share on social
I've been lucky enough to play on NBA teams I really enjoy, teams where I've liked everybody and had fun, and had that college kind of experience with an NBA team. When you have that, and I don't know that everyone does, but when I've had it, that's what it's all about. Steve Nash collegeenjoyexperience share on social
You go, well you can't joke about race. Well if you're from a different race and that's your experience of the world and you want to talk about that, then fine. Or you can't talk about disability, but disabled comics can talk about that. Jimmy Carr comicdisabilitydisable share on social
Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost! Deborah Sampson childexperiencelose Change image and share on social
What I strive to do is to make the theater experience something that people remember and recall rather than dismiss because it was less like their everyday experiences. So, I'm less interested in internal emotionalism and much more in making the audience laugh and cry by the devices that we use as theater actors. Roger Rees actoraudiencecry share on social
Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger. Julian Baggini acceptagebig share on social
I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that. John Lurie 20searlyexperience Change image and share on social
It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers. Robert Fisk assadbashareerie Change image and share on social
It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty. Gordon W. Allport amountbitterdrive Change image and share on social
I am concerned about any attrition in customer traffic at Starbucks, but I don't want to use the economy, commodity prices or consumer confidence as an excuse. We must maintain a value proposition to our customers as well as differentiate the Starbucks Experience. That is the key. Howard Schultz attritioncommodityconcern share on social