All my songs are based on personal experience, and 'Lost Without You' came out fully born. — Freya Ridings Copy Share Image
I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience. — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
I know - from personal experience - that abiding values and abundant visions are learned in the homes of our people. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Telling a story is an emotional and personal experience for me and I can't do without it. — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
“Using breasts for feeding a baby may be emotionally confusing if society and personal experience have emphasised their sexual and aesthetic functions.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
Making films is - or should be - a very personal experience. You shouldn't listen to anybody, other than the people you… — Anne Fontaine Copy Share Image
I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up. — Todd Barry Copy Share Image
All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
This is all about knowing a market, ... and it's so thorough that even if you don't have personal experience in that… — Perry Marshall Copy Share Image
Songs sort of come from everywhere - people, places, coffee, the aisles of Target... I tend to write pretty autobiographical so a… — Matthew Koma Copy Share Image
You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“We all have beliefs and expectations from our personal experience; it is impossible to live without them. Since we have to make… — John Seymour Copy Share Image
There is a direct relationship between our personal experience with the Lord and how we see ourselves. The closer we grow to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm always happy when people choose to get another dog because it's a healthy and healing thing to do, and there are… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
Faith can have a profound impact on health. It is a very personal experience of thought and surrender, which can comfort in… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
“You might wonder that I who who have served you in the field of diplomacy should set so much store by the… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
The photographer Ruth Bernhard used to tell me that this is like asking somebody how they evolved their signature. It is not… — Michael Kenna 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
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
This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Social cohesion is a necessity, and mankind has never yet succeeded in enforcing cohesion by merely rational arguments. Every community is exposed… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“In his entirely personal experience of them, English was jazz music, German was classical music, French was ecclesiastical music, and Spanish was… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Sam, that's a great concept. And maybe you believe it. But I'm black and I'm a lesbian, so let me tell you:… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
“Phillips screwdriver to his temple while they gave him the business. It rips you up some, but not bad—am I speaking from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With '2 Dope Queens,' we get the opportunity to love and enjoy each other and have fun being best friends and being… — Jessica Williams 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
“Happiness is like time and space--we make and measure it ourselves; it is a fancy--as big, as little, as you please; just… — George Du Maurier Copy Share Image
“Scared people did scary things sometimes, even kids. Sam knew that from personal experience. Fear could be dangerous. Fear could get people… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
“Because from my personal experience, Dylan, falling in love with you is like jumping out of an airplane with no parachute. It's… — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
I'VE NOTICED, FROM MY EXPERIENCE, IF THE EXTERNAL, EMOTIONAL CONSTRUCTION OF IMAGES IN A FILM ARE BASED ON THE FILMMAKER'S OWN MEMORY,… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I should like to use another word: 'audience' or 'reader' or 'listener' seems inadequate. I suggest the old word 'witness,' which includes… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
I'm not encouraging massive boycotts of turning off the news. That's what the left does. I'm just telling you my own personal… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
All arguments are meaningless until we gain personal experience. One must win one's own place in the spiritual world painfully and alone.… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Artists, in theory, should not be limited to their personal experience, culture, identity, and worldview. But they must also accept that the… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
Often the lines that define the traditional European arrangement of fiction, non-fiction, history, etc. are not useful. These lines can distort the… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Apart from the National Film Awards, I don't see any other award ceremony that I should give value to. My personal experience… — Aamir Khan 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
