We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.