“Too many people have become self-appointed privilege police, patrolling the halls of discourse, ready to remind people of their privilege whether those… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
It's usually drawing on personal experience. I don't think I could dig deep enough trying to get into somebody else's life. Like… — John Prine Copy Share Image
“Meeks was telling him about the value of work. He said that it had been his personal experience that if you wanted… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
It's the same thing in a way with privacy. You can say "I'm not doing anything wrong, therefore this doesn't concern me,"… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
You won't get gun control by disarming law-abiding citizens. There's only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
My personal experience in Ninawa Province has been that, at the most fundamental level, people don't really care if it's a Shiite,… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
One of the most important things as a writing instructor is to provide a lot of different entry points to subjects. To… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Leading women, if they are to offer variations from the present companies of leading men, need to be drawn from a wide… — Eva Cox Copy Share Image
It's a different thing playing in a smaller venue where you can actually see people's faces and reactions. It's so much more… — Jann Klose Copy Share Image
“As we embark on this challenging yet transformational inner journey, we tap into the quantum self, the infinite potential that resides within.… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
What I think is important about essayists, about the essay as opposed to a lot of personal writing is that the material… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
What good is a theory of how the universe works if it’s a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The B-52s, you know, our songs are about volcanoes or lobsters. Cindy and I sing them like our lives depend on them.… — Kate Pierson Copy Share Image
Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Christianity is unquestionably a personal experience. It is also unquestionably not a private experience. — William Barclay Copy Share Image
Mysticism is: a. An advanced state of inner enlightenment. b. Union with Reality. c. A state of genuinely satisfying success. d. Insight… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Exploring female rage on film doesn't frighten me - it might frighten a lot of people in my business, but, gosh, I… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Because of things like 'The X Factor' and 'Autotune', the real art of communicating a song is not treasured any more. But… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
